Research in African Literatures
Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 2008
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Your Subscribed ContentPositively Popular: African Culture in the Mainstram
Pim Higginson, Guest Editor
Articles
Positively Popular: African Culture in the Mainstream: Introduction
pp. vii-x
Dirty Whites: “Ruffian-Writing” in Colonial West Africa
pp. 1-13
Displacement in French/Displacement of French: The Reggae and R’n’B of Tiken Jah Fakoly and Corneille
pp. 14-23
Interviews with Amaka Igwe, Tunde Kelani, and Kenneth Nnebue
pp. 24-39
Ouaga Saga, Magical Realism, and Postcolonial Politics
pp. 40-57
New Technologies and the Popular: Alain Mabanckou’s Blog
pp. 58-71
Kenyan Popular Fiction in English and the Melodramas of the Underdogs
pp. 72-82
The Submitted Body: Discursive and Masochistic Transformation of Masculinity in Simon Njami’s African Gigolo
pp. 83-104
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Residing in Kinshasa: Between Colonial Modernization and Globalization
pp. 105-116
The Troubling Popularity of West African Romance Novels
pp. 120-132
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Tortured Bodies, Loved Bodies: Gendering African Popular Fiction
pp. 133-146
Book Reviews
“Wo ist Afrika”? Paratopische Ästhetik in der zeitgenössischen Romanliteratur des frankophonen Schwarzafrika / “Where is Africa?” Paratopical Aesthetics in Contemporary Novel Writing from Francophone Africa South of the Sahara) (review)
pp. 148-149
Approches du roman et du théâtre missionnaires (review)
pp. 150-151
Histoire des littératures de l’Afrique subsaharienne (review)
pp. 151-155
Littérature orale africaine: nature, genres, caractéristiques et fonctions (review)
pp. 155-157
Carthage ou la flamme du brasier: mémoire et échos chez Virgile, Senghor, Mellah, Ghachem, Augustin, Ammi, Broch et Glissant (review)
pp. 157-159
Postcolonial Violence, Culture and Identity in Francophone Africa and the Antilles (review)
pp. 160-161
Subject and History in Selected Works by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera, and David Dabydeen (review)
pp. 161-162
An Introduction to the Literature of Equatorial Guinea: Between Colonialism and Dictatorship (review)
pp. 162-163
Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection (review)
pp. 164-165
Against All Odds: A Documentary (DVD) (review)
pp. 165-166
Encountering Modernity, and: South African National Cinema (review)
pp. 166-169
The Afro-Brazilian Mind: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Criticism, and: Ossobó: Essays on the Literature of São Tomé and Príncipe (review)
pp. 169-171
Not so Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890–2000 (review)
pp. 171-172
Announcement
Index to Volume 39
Index to Volume 39
pp. 175-179
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