Research in African Literatures
Volume 39, Number 2, Summer 2008
E-ISSN: 1527-2044 Print ISSN: 0034-5210
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Your Subscribed ContentNigeria's Third-Generation Novel: Preliminary Theoretical Engagements
Pius Adesanmi and Chris Dunton, Guest Editors
Articles
Introduction: Everything Good Is Raining: Provisional Notes on the Nigerian Novel of the Third Generation
pp. vii-xii
Subject Headings:
Metonymic Eruptions: Igbo Novelists, the Narrative of the Nation, and New Developments in the Contemporary Nigerian Novel
pp. 1-14
Biafra as Heritage and Symbol: Adichie, Mbachu, and Iweala
pp. 15-26
Ora na-azu nwa: The Figure of the Child in Third-Generation Nigerian Novels
pp. 27-48
“Half and Half Children”: Third-Generation Women Writers and the New Nigerian Novel
pp. 49-67
Entropy and Energy: Lagos as City of Words
pp. 68-78
The Deep Stirring of the Unhomely: African Diaspora on Biyi Bandele’s The Street
pp. 79-92
Of Female Husbands and Boarding School Girls: Gender Bending in Unoma Azuah’s Fiction
pp. 93-104
Women Writers’ Round Table: Of Phases and Faces: Unoma Azuah Engages Sefi Atta and Chika Unigwe
pp. 108-116
Review Essays
Staking Claims: Theorizing Female Agency and Empowerment Through Black Women’s Literary Writings
pp. 117-124
In Word and Image: Remembering Anne Eisner’s Adventures in Africa
pp. 138-142
Book Reviews
The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe (review)
pp. 143-144
Femmes et écriture de la transgression (review)
pp. 144-145
Les enJEux de l’autobiographie dans les littératures de langue française, and: From Split to Screened Selves: French and Francophone Autobiography in the Third Person (review)
pp. 146-148
L’Europe et les francophonies, langue, littérature, histoire, image (review)
pp. 148-148
The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 (review)
pp. 149-149
Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History (review)
pp. 150-151
Black African Literature in English: 1991–2001: Critical Appreciation and Reception (review)
pp. 151-153
Tracing Personal Expansion: Reading Selected Novels as Modern African Bildungsromane (review)
pp. 153-154
The Power of the Word/ La puissance du verbe (review)
pp. 154-156
The Defence of Lawino [Wer pa Lawino] (review)
pp. 156-158
The Dassie and the Hunter: A South African Meeting (review)
pp. 159-161
Of Minstrels and Masks: The Legacy of Ezenwa-Ohaeto in Nigerian Writing (review)
pp. 161-163
Perspectives critiques: L’oeuvre d’Hédi Bouraoui (review)
pp. 163-164
Theatre and Environmental Education in Cameroon, and: Women in Theatre for Development in Cameroon: Participation, Contributions and Limitations (review)
pp. 166-169
Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean, and: La poétique du renversement chez Maryse Condé, Massa Maka Diabate and Edouard Glissant (review)
pp. 170-173
Die Macht des Wortes: Das journalistische Interview als Rezeptionsform afrikanischer Literaturen in der frankophonen, anglophonen und deutschsprachigen Presse—am Beispiel von Ousmane Sembène (Senegal) und Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) (review)
pp. 173-174
De l’écrit à l’écran: Les réécritures filmiques du roman africain francophone (review)
pp. 175-176
African Filmmaking North and South of the Sahara (review)
pp. 176-177
Ordinary Cities Between Modernity and Development (review)
pp. 177-179
Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba (review)
pp. 179-180
History’s Place: Nostalgia and the City in French Algerian Literature (review)
pp. 180-181
Liberating Shahrazad: Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Islam (review)
pp. 182-182
Hybridity: Limits, Transformations, Prospects (review)
pp. 183-184
Fiction and the Incompleteness of History: Toni Morrison, V. S. Naipaul, and Ben Okri (review)
pp. 184-185
Africa: A Guide to Reference Material (review)
pp. 185-186
De la littérature coloniale à la littérature africaine (review)
pp. 186-187