British and African Literature in Transnational Context

Index

Abortion, 41–42, 195n31 Achebe, Chinua, 2, 3, 6–11, 15, 19, 25–37, 39–40, 44, 46, 48, 51–54, 58–59, 62, 66–68, 77, 83–85, 88, 90, 115, 127, 136, 161, 164–66, 170, 175, 176, 181n1, 181n4, 190n5, 190n6, 190n7, 190n9, 191n11, 192n13, 193n15, 193n17, 193n18, 194n20, 194n23, 194n25, 194n31, 197n6, 202n29, 207n20, 207n21, 228n9 —Works: Anthills of the Savannah, 36, 197n6; Arrow of God, 30, 31–36, 39, 190n7, 193n15, 193n19, 194n20, 195n34; Home and Exile, 11, 25, 27, 36, 181n1, 181n4, 185n16, 186n22, 194n20, 194n25; “An Image of Africa,” 9, 26, 35, 188n1; No Longer at Ease, 30–31, 193n19, 195n29, 195n31; “The Novelist as Teacher,” 58, 185n16, 190n8; Things Fall Apart, 3, 8, 25, 26– 27, 29–31, 33–35, 39, 40, 44, 50–51, 58, 72, 111, 161, 164–70, 175–76, 190n6, 190n9, 191n10, 193n15, 193n17, 193n18, 193n19, 213n6 African National Congress (ANC), 129, 133, 134, 151, 153, 174, 184n14, 186n21, 218n4, 218n8, 219n9, 219n10, 220n14, 221n19, 231n28, 232n37 African Renaissance, 143, 149, 186n21, 220n15, 222n28 African Writers Series, 3, 7, 181n4, 183n9, 185n15, 189n3, 193n17 Afrikaner, 14, 132–33, 136, 172, 230n28, 231n30 Agamben, Giorgio, 16 Ahmad, Aijaz, 53, 59, 196n3 Aidoo, Ama Ata, 185 AIDS, 91, 105, 110, 209n7 Akhenaten, 95–96, 209n7 Amoko, Apollo, 120–22 Anderson, Benedict, 181n3 Apatrides, 66, 72 Index Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 15–17, 55–56, 71, 187n27, 202n29 Arabs, 14, 61, 67, 89, 201n23 Askaris, 64, 81, 92, 103 Baartman, Sara (Saartjie), 142, 222n27, 231n28 Baker, Houston, 187n27 Bantu Education Act, 173, 178–79 Barnard, Rita, 132, 188n31, 218n7, 220n18 Begam, Richard, 30–33 Bernal, Martin, 183n12 Bhabha, Homi, 49, 67, 72, 177, 181n3, 199n14 Biko, Steve, 138, 150, 154 Black Atlantic, 8, 21, 39, 50–52, 54 Black Consciousness, 136, 138–39, 145, 150–53, 155 Bond, Patrick, 133, 150, 217n1, 219n9 Booker Prize, 7, 15, 68, 135 Boxing, 211n16 Boyd, William, 7, 19, 66, 75–90, 91–92, 103, 116, 119, 203n3, 203n4, 206n15, 206n18, 207n23, 212n19, 215n16 —Works: Brazzaville Beach, 76–77, 203n4, 215n16; “Fly Away Home,” 76; Good and Bad at Games, 119, 207n23; A Good Man in Africa, 76, 116, 203n4, 206n15; An Ice-Cream War, 17, 75–90, 91–92, 103, 110, 205n11, 206n15 Brantlinger, Patrick, 192n14, 197n4 British Book Marketing Council, 76 Brown, Nicholas, 34, 188n1, 194n20 Camps, 17 Canons (of literature), 11–12, 13, 20, 26, 110 Canterbury, 60, 200n17 Carretta, Vincent, 28–29, 183n13, 191n11, 192n13, 194n26 254 / Index Cary, Joyce, 8, 19, 25, 31–35, 194n20, 203n3 Casely-Hayford, Joseph, 6, 184n14 Chi, 46, 165 Chilembwe, John, 6, 184n14 Chimurenga (magazine), 135, 151 Chimurenga (resistance struggle), 128, 160–64 Christianity, 34, 37, 39, 43, 53, 56, 116–17, 148–49, 164, 183n12, 201n27 Christiansë, Yvette, 2, 160, 169, 171–72, 176–80, 201n21, 230n28, 233n41, 233n44 —Works: Castaway, 171, 177–80; Unconfessed, 17, 171, 176 Churchill, Caryl, 2, 20, 109–10, 114, 118–22, 216n22 Cockney, 40, 195n30 Coetzee, J. M., 7, 17, 20, 131, 135, 139–41, 143, 145, 151, 169, 172, 221n24, 222n26, 223nn33–38, 224nn40–41, 225n42 —Works: Elizabeth Costello, 139, 140, 143, 145–49, 151; Life and Times of Michael K, 17, 140, 143, 145, 149 Cold War, 1, 14, 20, 51, 56, 127 Colouredness, 20, 136, 140, 150–52, 168–71, 173–79, 186n20, 230n28, 232nn35–36, 232n38, 233n40 Come Back, Africa, 137 Conrad, Joseph, 8–11, 19, 25–26, 29, 50, 53, 83, 86–90, 103, 115, 117, 188n1, 192n14, 194nn20–21, 211n17 Cooper, Brenda, 39, 45–48, 83, 194n24, 195n34, 208n2, 210n12, 215n16 Crewe Circular, 209n5 Cronin, Jeremy, 127, 134, 137, 140, 171, 180, 219n11, 220n15, 221n23, 230n28 Cugoano, Ottobah, 191n11 Currey, James, 181n4, 185n15, 189n3, 193n17 da Gama, Vasco, 5, 57 Dangarembga, Tsitsi, 161–62, 166 Darfur, 103, 198n12 de Albuquerque, Klaus, 66–67, 201n22 Decolonization, 1–2, 9, 56, 66 de Kok, Ingrid, 18 Derrida, Jacques, 128, 172, 218n8, 231n31 Desai, Gaurav, 75–76, 202n1 de Waal, Shaun, 153 Drabble, Margaret, 112, 115, 214n13 Drum, 137, 155 Du Bois, W.E.B., 10, 78, 185n19, 222n31 Duiker, K. Sello, 17, 20, 131, 140–44, 169, 178 Eliot, T. S., 2, 20, 103, 109–10, 111, 113, 114, 115–18, 119, 122 Emecheta, Buchi, 2, 15, 19, 36–48, 49, 50, 57, 58, 59, 65, 66, 71, 76, 127, 186n20, 194n27 Emigration. See Migration English (language), 7–8, 12, 15, 26–28, 38, 40, 45, 50, 68, 70–71, 112, 165, 181n5, 186n24, 189n4...