Research in African Literatures
Volume 40, Number 1, Spring 2009
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E-ISSN: 1527-2044 Print ISSN: 0034-5210
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Your Subscribed ContentOral Literature and Identity Formation in Africa and the Diaspora
Isidore Okpewho and Funso Aiyejina, Guest Editors
Articles
Introduction
pp. vii-xxiii
Affirming the Subaltern: The Contribution of J. D. Elder
pp. 1-7
Subject Headings:
An Oral Philosophy of Personhood: Comments on Philosophy and Orality
pp. 8-18
Subversion of Patriarchal Ideology: A Case Study of Magdalene, a Woman Oral Narrative Performer from the Samburu of Kenya
pp. 19-26
Asante Traditions and Female Self-Assertion: Sister Abena’s Narrative
pp. 27-41
Niger and Sarraounia: One Hundred Years of Forgetting Female Leadership
pp. 42-56
Subject Headings:
Oral Literature as Moral Guide: “Sunba” in Contemporary Media
pp. 57-73
Negotiating Time, Space, and Spirit: A Case Study of Oral Tradition and the Construction of Lineage Identity in West Africa
pp. 74-85
Subject Headings:
Verbal Miscues or Cultural Agency? Icheoku: An Introduction
pp. 86-96
African Diaspora Vernacular Traditions and the Dilemma of Identity
pp. 97-111
African American Belief Narratives and the African Cultural Tradition
pp. 112-126
Subject Headings:
Context and Meaning in Trinidad Yoruba Songs: Peter Was a Fisherman and Songs of the Orisha Palais
pp. 127-136
Subject Headings:
Trinidad Calypso as Postmodernism in the Diaspora: Linking Rhythms, Lyrics, and the Ancestral Spirits
pp. 137-144
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On Seeing Africa for the First Time: Orality, Memory, and the Diaspora in Isidore Okpewho’s Call Me by My Rightful Name
pp. 145-155
Subject Headings:
From Formalism to Ideology: Toward a Creole Narrative Grammar
pp. 156-165
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Book Reviews
Women as Artists in Contemporary Zimbabwe, and: Theatre, Performance and New Media in Africa (review)
pp. 166-170
Writing from the Hearth: Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women’s Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean (review)
pp. 170-171
Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women’s Experiential Texts and Human Contexts (review)
pp. 171-172
Manifeste d’une nouvelle littérature africaine: pour une littérature préemptive (review)
pp. 173-177
Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature (review)
pp. 177-180