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Table of Contents

Aime Cesaire and the Syntax of Influence

Brent Hayes Edwards
pp. 1-18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0112
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Start-Over: Possession Rites and Healing Rituals in the Poetry of Lorna Goodison

Hugh Hodges
pp. 19-32
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0120
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Political Violence: Introductory Comments

Kenneth W. Harrow, Richard Priebe
p. 33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2005.36.2.33
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"Ancient Tribal Warfare": Foundational Fantasies of Ethnicity and History

Kenneth W. Harrow
pp. 34-45
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0118
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Literature, Community, and Violence: Reading African Literature in the West, Post-9/11

Richard Priebe
pp. 46-58
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2005.36.2.46
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Writing the Child, Youth, and Violence into the Francophone Novel from Sub-Saharan Africa: The Impact of Age and Gender

Odile M. Cazenave
pp. 59-71
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2005.36.2.59
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From a "large morsel of meat" to "passwords-in-flesh": Resistance through Representation of the Tortured Body in Labou Tansiis La vie et demie

Pascale Perraudin, Sara Quiroz, Stephen Findley
pp. 72-84
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0128
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Colonial Violence, Postcolonial Violations: Violence, Landscape, and Memory in Kenyan Fiction

Tirop Simatei
pp. 85-94
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0134
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Introductory Comments: Ato Quaysonis Calibrations: Reading for the Social

Tejumola Olaniyan
pp. 95-96
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0127
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Reading Calibrations: Re-reading for the Social

Anjali Prabhu
pp. 97-103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2005.36.2.97
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Symptoms of the Present in Ato Quaysonis Calibrations

Adéléke Adéè̳kó̳
pp. 104-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0105
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Calibrations : Literary Reference and the Ethics of Reading

Uzoma Esonwanne
pp. 112-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0113
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Incessant Particularities: Calibrations as Close Reading

Ato Quayson
pp. 122-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0131
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Tsitsi Dangarembga's Film Kare Kare Zvako : The Survival of the Butchered Woman

Flora Veit-Wild
pp. 132-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0136
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Wole Soyinka (review)

Ato Quayson
pp. 139-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0132
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Barbs: A Study of Satire in the Plays of Wole Soyinka (review)

Esiaba Irobi
pp. 142-144
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0122
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Role-Play in South African Theatre (review)

Brian Crow
pp. 144-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0111
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Nouvelles dramaturgies d'Afrique noire francophone (review)

Alain Ricard
pp. 145-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0133
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Theatre and Postcolonial Desires (review)

James Gibbs
pp. 146-147
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0116
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Women Writing Africa: Southern African Region (review)

Daniel P. Kunene
pp. 147-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0124
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Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities (review)

Toyin Falola
pp. 149-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0114
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Kojo Tovalou Houenou, precurseur, 1887-1936: pannegrisme et modernite (review)

Roger Little
pp. 150-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0125
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Coran et tradition islamique dans la litterature maghrebine (review)

Hafid Gafaïti
pp. 151-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0115
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The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria, 1930-1954 (review)

Oniankpo Akindjo
pp. 152-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0104
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The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation and the Rise of Black Internationalism (review)

Bennetta Jules-Rosette
pp. 153-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0123
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Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora (review)

Rebecca Ann Wanzo
pp. 155-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0137
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The Dynamics of African Feminism: Defining and Classifying African Feminist Literatures (review)

Pia Thielmann
pp. 156-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0135
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Carnival and the Formation of a Caribbean Transnation (review)

Keith Q. Warner
pp. 158-159
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0138
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Clear Word and Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing (review)

Keith Q. Warner
pp. 159-160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0139
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Le Chevalier de Saint-George: biographie (review)

Roger Little
pp. 160-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0126
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Africa and Europe: En/Countering Myths (review)

Karen Haire Hoenig
pp. 161-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0121
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Archaologie eines Modernen Mythos: Albert Schweitzers Nachruhm in Europaischen und Afrikanischen Text- und Bildmedien (review)

Nina Berman
pp. 162-164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0108
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Djinns, Stars and Warriors: Mandinka Legends from Pakao, Senegal (review)

Ralph A. Austen
pp. 164-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0107
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African Francophone Cinema

Kenneth W. Harrow
pp. 165-166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0119
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Announcement

p. 167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0106
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Editoris Comments

John Conteh-Morgan
p. vii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0110
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