A Companion to African Literatures. Группа авторов
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Table of Contents
1 Cover
5 Preface
6 Part I: East and Central Africa 1 East and Central Africa: An Introduction African‐Language Literatures and the Language Question The Makerere Conference The Abolition of the English Department Selected Writers Diasporic Imaginaries Present Directions Bibliography 2 Rereading East African Literature Through a Human Rights Lens: The Example of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not, Child Bibliography Notes 3 Of Authenticity and Engagement in Francophone African Cultural Production The African Author and the Duty Toward Engagement Language and Postcolonial Performance Cinema and African Postmodernisms Writing Without France: Defining New Approaches Bibliography Notes 4 Literature and Hybridity in Mauritius and Réunion Language and Literacy The Colonial Novel and Hybridity Fluid Hybridities in the Twentieth and Twenty‐First Centuries Bibliography Notes 5 The Representation of Nation and National Identity in Modern Amharic Literature Constructing and Narrating the Modern Nation, 1896–1960 Walks on a Thin Line between Hope and Despair, 1960–1974 The Quest for Hibretesebawinet, 1974–1991 The Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of Ethnic Strife: 1991 to Present The Politics of Authorship, Language, and Identity Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes 6 Swahili Literature (Fasihi ya Kiswahili) Introduction: The Intercultural Heritage Oral Literature/Orature (Fasihi Tamshi) Early Writing: Beginnings in Religious Verse The Rise of Secular Writing Poetry of the Nonconforming “Modernists” Prose Drama and Theater Women Writers and Gender Concerns Swahili Translations Conclusion Bibliography
7 Part II: North Africa 7 North Africa: An Introduction The Nomenclature: North Africa, the Maghreb, the Mashriq, and Africa Institutions of Literature Vectors of Literary Traffic The Multilingual Imperative Dominant, Emergent, and Receding Voices and Forms Conclusion Bibliography Notes 8 Nation and Identity in Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt Bibliography 9 Hyphens & Hymens: francoarab Literature of the Maghreb Our Letter Hyphens … & Hymens Bibliography Notes 10 Translation and North African Letters Arab–Latin American Translation Flows Sonallah Ibrahim: Warda from Egypt to Cuba