Research in African Literatures
Volume 40, Number 2, Summer 2009
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E-ISSN: 1527-2044 Print ISSN: 0034-5210
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Articles
Newspapers, New Spaces, New Writers: The First World War and Print Culture in Colonial Ghana
pp. 1-15
Autobiography and Departmentalization in Chamoiseau’s Chemin d’école: Representational Strategies and the Martinican Memoir
pp. 16-39
Resuming a Broken Dialogue: Prophecy, Nationalist Strategies, and Religious Discourses in Ngugi’s Early Work
pp. 40-62
Sinking One’s Teeth into Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter: Lessons of Cadmus
pp. 63-81
Reading the Hartebeest: A Critical Appraisal of Roger Hewitt’s Interpretation of the /Xam Narratives
pp. 82-108
South Africa and the Colonial Intellectual
pp. 109-124
The Journey of a Healing Community in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons
pp. 125-139
Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta: A Poet, Pedagogue, and Promoter of Indigenous Languages in Late Nineteenth-Century Angola
pp. 140-158
Whose Nation?: Romanticizing the Vision of a Nation in Bole Butake’s Betrothal without Libation and Family Saga
pp. 159-172
Mariama Barry, Ken Bugul, Calixthe Beyala, and the Politics of Female Homoeroticism in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Literature
pp. 173-189
“African Brecht”
pp. 190-207
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in Sierra Leone: Thomas Decker’s Juliohs Siza, Roman Politics, and the Emergence of a Postcolonial African State
pp. 208-227
Simone Schwarz-Bart, Maryse Condé, and Raphaël Confiant in English Translation: Texts and Margins
pp. 228-239
Book Reviews
Lettres maliennes: figures et configurations de l’activité littéraire au Mali (review)
pp. 240-241
Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures (review)
pp. 241-242
Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism (review)
pp. 243-244
Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria (review)
pp. 244-245
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