Research in African Literatures
Volume 40, Number 3, Fall 2009
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E-ISSN: 1527-2044 Print ISSN: 0034-5210
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Articles
A Great Novel in a "Small" Language: Representations of the African Intellectual in the Eritrean Novel Tebereh's Shop
pp. 1-15
A Moroccan Tale of an Outlandish Europe: Ben Jelloun's Departures for a Double Exile
pp. 16-36
White Postcolonial Guilt in Doris Lessing's The Grass Is Singing
pp. 37-47
Writing on Bones: Commemorating Genocide in Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi
pp. 48-61
Homoeroticism and the Failure of African Nationalism in Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones
pp. 62-73
"Fighting with Proverbs": Kasena Women's (Re)Definition of Female Personhood through Proverbial Jesting
pp. 74-95
A Discursive Representation of Women in Sample Proverbs from Ethiopia, Sudan, and Kenya
pp. 96-108
Singing the Law: Okot p'Bitek's Legal Imagination and the Poetics of Traditional Justice
pp. 109-128
Prison, Poetry, and Polyphony in Abdilatif Abdalla's Sauti ya Dhiki
pp. 129-148
Amandina Lihamba's Gendered Adaptation of Sembene Ousmane's The Money-Order
pp. 149-173
A New Concept of Actor/Audience Interaction and Audience Participation in Modern African Dramatic Theater: An Example of Osofisan
pp. 175-185
The Socialist Romance of the Postcolonial Arabic Novel
pp. 186-205
Interview
Joseph Gaï Ramaka: "I am not a filmmaker engagé. I am an ordinary citizen engagé."
pp. 206-219
Review Essay
Public Enemy, Or, Sensing Censorship: Musical Performance and Semiotic Disobedience—Popular Music Censorship in African Music (2006) in Perspective
pp. 220-235
Book Reviews
The Cambridge Introduction to Francophone Literature (review)
pp. 236-237
Emerging Perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall: The Real and the Imaginary in Her Novels (review)
pp. 237-238
Writing from the Hearth: Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean (review)
pp. 238-239
Littératures, savoirs, et enseignement (review)
pp. 240-241
Utenzi, War Poems, and the German Conquest of East Africa: Swahili Poetry as Historical Source (review)
pp. 241-242
India in Africa/Africa in India: Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanisms, and: Afrindian Fictions: Diaspora, Race and National Desire in South Africa (review)
pp. 243-245
Stars and Keys: Folktales and Creolization in the Indian Ocean (review)
pp. 245-246
African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity (review)
pp. 246-247