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Table of Contents

Introduction: Pluralism and the Engaged Humanities

Akin Adeṣọkan, Oana Panaïté
pp. 1-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.00066
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Conversation with Eileen Julien

Akin Adeṣọkan, Oana Panaïté
pp. 10-16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.00067
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Decolonization, with or without the Mother Tongue: The Blinkards (1915) and Translations (1980)

Biodun Jeyifo
pp. 17-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.00068
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Intergenerational Collaboration as Late Style: In Honor of Eileen Julien

Carli Coetzee
pp. 27-37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.00069
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Orality and the Writing Lesson: The Work of Vernacular Intellectuals

Simon Gikandi
pp. 38-49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.00070
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It’s Eileen’s Time: Traces of Life with Kalidou Sy

Kenneth Harrow
pp. 50-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.00071
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Africa’s Cultural Unconscious in the making of Modern Culture: Revisiting the Trope of Return in African Literature

James Ogude
pp. 63-77
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.00072
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How Worlds are Made: Literatures, Translation, and the Question of the Universal

Meg Arenberg
pp. 78-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.00073
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Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson’s Activist Literature

Sandra A. Zagarell
pp. 93-103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.00074
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Afterword: Whither Orality? Echoes of an Event in World Literature

Eileen Julien
pp. 104-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.00075
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Skin as Psyche: Epidermal Modes of Narration in Nigerian Diaspora Literature

Qifei Zou
pp. 109-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.00076
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Postcolonial Trauma, Memory and Care in Bodunrin B. Sasore’s Breath of Life

Chikwurah Destiny Isiguzo
pp. 126-143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.00077
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The Wound and the Womb: The Politics of Reproduction and Repair in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai Trilogy

Gayatri Mehra
pp. 144-168
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.00078
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Staging and Undoing Apartheid’s Spatial Injustice: Heterotopias in Athol Fugard’s The Island

Yaping Qi
pp. 169-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.00079
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