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Articles

  1. Positively Popular: African Culture in the Mainstream: Introduction
  2. Pim Higginson
  3. pp. vii-x
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.vii
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  1. Dirty Whites: “Ruffian-Writing” in Colonial West Africa
  2. Stephanie Newell
  3. pp. 1-13
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.1
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  1. Displacement in French/Displacement of French: The Reggae and R’n’B of Tiken Jah Fakoly and Corneille
  2. Olivier Bourderionnet
  3. pp. 14-23
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.14
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  1. Interviews with Amaka Igwe, Tunde Kelani, and Kenneth Nnebue
  2. Uzoma Esonwanne
  3. pp. 24-39
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.24
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  1. Ouaga Saga, Magical Realism, and Postcolonial Politics
  2. Carina Yervasi
  3. pp. 40-57
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.40
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  1. New Technologies and the Popular: Alain Mabanckou’s Blog
  2. Dominic Thomas
  3. pp. 58-71
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.58
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  1. Kenyan Popular Fiction in English and the Melodramas of the Underdogs
  2. Tom Odhiambo
  3. pp. 72-82
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.72
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  1. The Submitted Body: Discursive and Masochistic Transformation of Masculinity in Simon Njami’s African Gigolo
  2. Devin Bryson
  3. pp. 83-104
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.83
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  1. Residing in Kinshasa: Between Colonial Modernization and Globalization
  2. Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Pim Higginson
  3. pp. 105-116
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.105
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  1. The Troubling Popularity of West African Romance Novels
  2. Lydie Moudileno
  3. pp. 120-132
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.120
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  1. Tortured Bodies, Loved Bodies: Gendering African Popular Fiction
  2. Pim Higginson
  3. pp. 133-146
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.133
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Book Reviews

  1. Africa after Gender? (review)
  2. Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
  3. pp. 147-148
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  1. “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)
  2. Flora Veit-Wild
  3. pp. 148-149
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.148
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  1. Approches du roman et du théâtre missionnaires (review)
  2. Pius Nkashama Ngandu, R.H. Mitsch
  3. pp. 150-151
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  1. Histoire des littératures de l’Afrique subsaharienne (review)
  2. Pius Ngandu Nkashama
  3. pp. 151-155
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.151
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  1. Littérature orale africaine: nature, genres, caractéristiques et fonctions (review)
  2. Pius Ngandu Nkashama
  3. pp. 155-157
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.155
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  1. Carthage ou la flamme du brasier: mémoire et échos chez Virgile, Senghor, Mellah, Ghachem, Augustin, Ammi, Broch et Glissant (review)
  2. Sylvie Kande
  3. pp. 157-159
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  1. Postcolonial Violence, Culture and Identity in Francophone Africa and the Antilles (review)
  2. Sam Haigh
  3. pp. 160-161
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.160
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  1. Subject and History in Selected Works by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera, and David Dabydeen (review)
  2. Stefan Helgesson
  3. pp. 161-162
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.161
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  1. An Introduction to the Literature of Equatorial Guinea: Between Colonialism and Dictatorship (review)
  2. Mbare Ngom
  3. pp. 162-163
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.162
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  1. Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection (review)
  2. Walter Rucker
  3. pp. 164-165
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.164
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  1. Against All Odds: A Documentary (DVD) (review)
  2. Chantal Zabus
  3. pp. 165-166
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.165
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  1. Encountering Modernity, and: South African National Cinema (review)
  2. Loren Kruger
  3. pp. 166-169
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  1. The Afro-Brazilian Mind: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Criticism, and: Ossobó: Essays on the Literature of São Tomé and Príncipe (review)
  2. Phillip Rothwell
  3. pp. 169-171
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.169
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  1. Not so Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890–2000 (review)
  2. Nina Berman
  3. pp. 171-172
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Announcement

  1. Announcement
  3. p. 173
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Index to Volume 39

  1. Index to Volume 39
  3. pp. 175-179
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