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... through the persistent attention to journalism within the novels, it fails to account for the ways in which contemporary African writers are drawing on the inventedness of the fictional realm to produce an alternative ambiance of the real. In Ways of Dying , readers are faced with the momentum...

... Works Cited Achebe , Chinua . A Man of the People . Oxford: Heinemann, 1966 . ———. Hopes and Impediments . New York: Doubleday, 1988 . ———. Things Fall Apart . Oxford: Heinemann, 1958 . Andrade , Susan Z . The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988...

... of North Carolina P, 2001 . Benston , Kimberly W. Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism . London and New York: Routledge, 2000 . Butler , Octavia . Parable of the Sower . New York: Warner, 1993 . Delany , Samuel R. “Generic Protocols: Science Fiction...

... Contents nancy armstrong Editor’s Introduction: The Way We Read Now 167 rachel ablow Oscar Wilde’s Fictions of Belief 175 susan z. andrade The Problem of Realism and African...

...Monica Popescu Andrade Susan , The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958–1988 ( Duke UP , 2011 ) , pp. 272, cloth , $65.62 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 The best scholarship shifts paradigms by making visible domains that have existed...

... the parameters for the African imagination and providing vistas into the culture of colonial modernity and its postcolonial consequences. In effect, the novel has come to function as the central register of the Novel: A Forum on Fiction 44:1  DOI 10.1215/00295132-1164347  © 2011 by Novel, Inc...

... the political scandal of its representation of postapartheid South Africa and draws out how the novel figures compelling ways of being and acting not limited to a South African horizon. Tracing this potential of figure in Disgrace 's famous last scene, and through reference to Auerbach's early essay “Figura...

... of Science Fiction . New Haven: Yale UP, 1979 . Whitehead , Colson . The Intuitionist . New York: Anchor, 1999 . “Verticality Is Such a Risky Enterprise”: The Literary and Paraliterary Antecedents of Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist Jeffrey Allen Tucker For African...

... of lived imperial and/or nationalist politics. In the context of African literature specifically, the essay also offers a new through-line connecting key liberation-era fiction (e.g., Charles Mungoshi, Dambudzo Marechera) with some of its current transnational successor texts (e.g., NoViolet Bulawayo...

... liberation and the now-canonical fictions of the mid-twentieth-century African novel emerged more or less together. The African literary canon in retrospect appears as a record of expectation for political liberation and of disappointment that it did not fulfill all it promised. This special issue...

... realist art based on dated assumptions about the European novel. They expand the category of realism to include examples from the realisms of late Victorian theater; postcolonial fiction from African, Egyptian, and Indian milieus; and photojournalistic experiments wrought in response to revolution...

... of modernist fragmentation in recent African fiction—a transaction that is inextricably tied to thepolitics of colonialism and its aftermath. The appropriation of African forms by modernist artists and writers is well known, but Woods traces the obverse line of influence in fiction by Ngugi wa Thiong’o...

... "anglo-modernist" fiction (1965). From the mixed reception of Tutuola before decolonization to the pugilistic tactics of the bolekaja boys in the mid-1980s, African literary criticism has fre- quently subordinated formal concerns to politics, valuing and perhaps over- valuing realism...

... in Nadine Gordimer's writing on Nelson Mandela. Deeply fascinated herself by the South African myth of Mandela as the Savior, and even apparently subscribing to it on occasion, Gordimer, in her non-fictional work as in her fiction, consistently seeks to illuminate the circumstances that nurtured...

... what she calls an “introverted” branch of African fiction: the war novel (17). She places this in contrast to the postcolonial bildungsroman, which has attained its current prominence in global Africanist criticism because it fits comfortably into critical paradigms of “writing back” to empire and thus...

... the novel has within the African American literary tradition and what role fiction can play in interrogating the limits of a mode of political thought hemmed in by a racialized political economy. 1 See Lori Merish , who focuses on the unmistakable sexual elements of this scene by pointing...

... elemental terms Johnson’s narrative offers a fictional account of murray | contemporary african american novel 15 Martin Luther King’s last campaign, his effort to transform a civil rights activism that had focused largely on southern segregation into a tactic...

.... “ The Problem of Realism and African Fiction .” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 42 . 2 ( 2009 ): 183 – 89 . Anjaria Jonathan Shapiro , and Anjaria Ulka . “ The Fractured Spaces of Entrepreneurialism in Post-Liberalization India .” Enterprise Culture in Neoliberal India: Studies in Youth, Class...

... the data they generate: their Yelp searches, commuting habits, and water usage nudge the infrastructure this way and that. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 African fiction genre fiction postcolonial fiction science fiction smart cities urban studies Something has happened...

... with Kenyatta in Kenya, the riches reappear as a central narrative arc in Abrahams's 1956 roman-à-clef A Wreath for Udomo . Here, titular protagonist and Nkrumah avatar Michael Udomo embarks on a modernization agenda in the fictional nation of Panafrica, a stand-in for an ideal type of independent African...