Journal of the African Literature Association, Volume 17, Issue 2 (2023)

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Journal of the African Literature Association, Volume 17, Issue 2 (2023)

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Research Articles

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Desiring women in contemporary Senegal: Nafissatou Dia Diouf and Kalista Sy’s inclusive afrotopos
Molly Krueger Enz
Pages: 235-249
Published online: 03 Feb 2023
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The itineraries of agency and resistance in the petrofiction of the Niger Delta: Okpewho’s Tides and Ojaide’s The Activist
Onyemaechi Udumukwu
Pages: 250-265
Published online: 13 Feb 2023
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Affectability, temporality, and postcolonial subjectification in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Farah Bakaari
Pages: 266-280
Published online: 01 Jun 2023
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Unmaking agency: intersectionality and narrative silencing in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body
Pauline Ada Uwakweh
Pages: 281-297
Published online: 30 May 2023
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Re-purposing African elements in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber
Elizabeth Abena Osei
Pages: 298-314
Published online: 24 Feb 2023
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“Our ways among strangers”: tradition and late modernity in Hollist’s So the Path Does Not Die
Oluseun Adekunmi Tanimomo
Pages: 315-328
Published online: 03 Mar 2023
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Writing the polyphonic African queer future: reflections on Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater
Oluwadunni O. Talabi
Pages: 329-344
Published online: 03 Jul 2023
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Nature as a symbiotic edge of humanity: eco-critical reading of Armah’s The Healers
Samuel Kwesi Nkansah
Pages: 345-357
Published online: 29 Jun 2023
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Notes from the Field

Notes on a lost novel
Mary S. Lederer
Pages: 358-365
Published online: 25 Jul 2023
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Feminism and modernity in Anglophone African women’s writing
By Dobrota Pucherová. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. 245 pages. ISBN 978-1-032-18727-3. Hardback. GBP 130
Asante Lucy Mtenje
Pages: 366-367
Published online: 09 May 2023
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African(a) Queer Presence: Ethics and Politics of Negotiation
by S. N. Nyeck. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 139 pages, ISBN 978-3319612249: hardback, USD 53.83
Serawit B. Debele (PhD)
Pages: 368-370
Published online: 16 Jun 2023
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Complicity and Responsibility in Contemporary African Writing: the Postcolony Revisited
by Minna Johanna Niemi. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. 212 pages. ISBN-13: 978-9-367-13969-8: Hardback, USD 170. ISBN-13: 978-0-367-76665-9: Paperback, USD 52.95
Megan Cole Paustian
Pages: 370-372
Published online: 05 Jul 2023
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