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...-racial encounters with an Islamic diaspora. By restoring West Africa as a contact zone within overlapping nineteenth-century Black Atlantic and Islamic diasporic histories, this essay traces a complex, ambivalent “islamicism” (or specific Islamic orientalism) within early pan-African or “back-to-Africa...

... was guest editor of a special double issue of Novel devoted to comparative African fictions. This essay is part of a project on realism and novels in Africa and South Asia. © 2012 by University of Washington 2012 Realism, Reception, 1968, and West Africa Susan Z. Andrade f the title...

..., of The Movement of People and Ideas between Britain and the Maghreb (2003). History, Literature, and Settler Colonialism in North Africa Mohamed-Salah Omri he novel Cassard le Berbère, published in 1921 by Robert Randau T(1873–1950), a key fi gure in the Francophone culture of Algeria, tells...

...Odai Johnson One of the most violent and influential inaugural mappings of migrational theater in the Western world occurred in the second century BCE, a period of aggressive Roman expansion (into Greece, the Near East, North Africa, and Spain). In one traumatic century Rome circled...

...Peter Kalliney Abstract Modernist concepts, especially aesthetic autonomy, were fundamental to the literature of decolonization in anglophone Africa. An archival examination of Black Orpheus , Transition , the Transcription Centre, and the African Writers of English Expression conference...

.... For those like Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa Thiong’o who went to the university col- leges set up in East and West Africa after World War II, modernism was an essential part of a privileged colonial education. These writers may have felt marginalized...

... Weber’s subject is pos- ing himself. It explores how anticolonial writing, from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as from Europe and the United States, has told the story of Europe’s embarking on a “line of development having uni- versal significance and value.” In particular, I highlight...

.... After Tina von Lambert’s funeral, her husband, a psychiatrist, engages another woman, the filmmaker “F to find her murderer. F. goes to North Africa, where she interviews two officials, a police chief resembling =ring and a mild-eannered “investigating magistrate” who is actually the head...

... this movement that Ng ˜ug˜ı adapts from Conrad. Ng˜ug˜ı as Reader When we separate postcolonial appropriations of Conradian content (representations of Africans and Africa, the theme of the “heart of darkness”) from postcolonial uses of Conradian...

... of his book Martínez analyzes writings by soldiers associated with spaces of war and cultural exchange throughout the Hapsburg Empire: garrisons in Italy and Africa, camps and siege placements in the Lowlands, outposts of imperial authority in America and East Asia, Spanish cities that received veterans...

... . Beckwith Martha Warren , ed. 1933 . Hawaiian Folk Tales , translated by Pukui Mary Wiggin . Poughkeepsie, NY : Vassar College . Behr Abraham Leslie MacMillan R. G. . 1966 . Education in South Africa . Pretoria : Van Schaik . Bhatti Anil . 1995 . “ Anmerkungen zur...

... . . . that the ‘world’ of world-literature is a ‘level playing field,’ a more or less free space in which texts from around the globe can circulate, intersect and converse with one another” (22). For their part, African literature scholars complained about Africa’s underrepresentation in world literature and held...

... in, and legacies for, regions like southern Africa. The “miracle that produced a rainbow nation” in South Africa Popescu notes, was made possible only by the collapse of Soviet hegemony after there is, in other words, a direct link between the fall...

... in, and legacies for, regions like southern Africa. The “miracle that produced a rainbow nation” in South Africa Popescu notes, was made possible only by the collapse of Soviet hegemony after there is, in other words, a direct link between the fall...

... politics and cultural formations often focus myopically on European and central Asian theaters of contest, ignoring (until relatively recently) the complicated position-taking in, and legacies for, regions like southern Africa. The “miracle that produced...

... in, and legacies for, regions like southern Africa. The “miracle that produced a rainbow nation” in South Africa Popescu notes, was made possible only by the collapse of Soviet hegemony after there is, in other words, a direct link between the fall...

... theaters of contest, ignoring (until relatively recently) the complicated position-taking in, and legacies for, regions like southern Africa. The “miracle that produced a rainbow nation” in South Africa Popescu notes, was made possible only...

... African Literature beyond the Cold War (2010) and coedited three important essay collections that examine the Cold War’s impact on the global South, the Black diaspora, and Africa, respectively. Popescu is also series coeditor of Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War. Unlike recent...

...- don, 1927) ; and H. G. Platt, Jr., “Astrea and Celadon: An Untouched Por- trait of Aphra Behn,” PMLA, XLIX (1934), pp. 544-559. 2 Mrs. Behn depicts Coramantien life in Africa with a somewhat Moor- ish tinge: these Gold-Coast Negroes have tents, rugs, seraglios, etc. Mrs. Behn, like...

..., the stepwise abab structure of Archibald MacLeish’s quatrains in “You, Andrew Marvell” helps track nightfall’s westward sweep from Persia to Baghdad and Arabia, to Palmyra, Lebanon, and Crete, to Sic- ily, Spain, and Africa. Also moving westward, from Brooklyn to Califor- nia, Hart Crane’s Bridge enacts...