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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 264–278.
Published: 01 November 2008
... Possibilities of Transformation within the Capitalist World Economy.” African Studies Review 17 ( 1974 ): 1 –26. Afkican Literature, Modernism, and the
Problem ofPolitica1 Subjectivity
NICHOLAS BROWN
What does it mean to talk about the politics of form...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 339–361.
Published: 01 August 2018
... 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...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 113–130.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of Black and African identity on a transnational scale. 2 In a similar vein, McDonald, in a reading of Tagore, argues that for the latter literature functions to connect people together through its “affective overflowing” ( 29 ). 3 Behold the Dreamers relies throughout its narrative...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 189–199.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of Letters . Trans. M.B. DeBevoise Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2004 . Trans. of La république mondiale des lettres. 1999. Chinweizu , Onwuchekwa Jemie , and Madubuike Ihechukwu. Towards the Decolonization of African Literature . Washington, D.C.: Howard UP, 1983 . Jameson , Fredric...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 361–365.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Daylanne K. English In this essay I offer a temporal-philosophical and literary-political reading of Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins detective novel series. African American literature has conventionally been understood as following its own timeline; however, ascribing a distinct temporality to black...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 347–368.
Published: 01 November 2019
... opposition between nationalism and pan-Africanism. In post-Mao China, Chinese writers released the local from the grip of the state and aligned localism with a nascent cosmopolitanism, which inclined them to identify with Third World cosmopolitan writers. In the process of translating post-Mao Chinese...
FIGURES
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Novel (2015) 48 (2): 317–321.
Published: 01 August 2015
... accrued a respectable body of criticism. Yet established scholarly paradigms have trained us to read them within and against the structures of nationalist anticolonial narratives. Andrade defamiliarizes this landscape by illuminating the pillars on which the historiography of African literature has been...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 163–168.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Wendy W. Walters Contemporary African diasporic literature often displays “the allure of the archive” when writers encode archival documents into their narratives, revising the remnants found in an archive, and foregrounding the elements of archival research and data in their texts. Against...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 327–329.
Published: 01 August 2010
.... Rita
Barnard’s Apartheid and Beyond reminds us that there is no inherent need for a trade-off.
Lucidly written and carefully researched, Barnard’s volume offers a theoretically nuanced
and historically situated study of South African literature from 1948 to 2000, exploring the
complex ways...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 183–189.
Published: 01 August 2009
... . Thresholds of Change in African Literature . Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1994 . Julien , Eileen . “Rape, Repression, and Narrative Form in Le Devoir de violence and La Vie et demie.” Rape and Representation . Ed. Higgins Lynn and Silver Brenda. New York: Columbia UP, 1990 . 160 -81. Kourouma...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 279–297.
Published: 01 November 2008
... , Harry . “Explorations in Animist Materialism: Notes on Reading/Writing African Literature, Culture, and Society.” Public Culture 15 ( 2003 ): 261 –85. George , Olakunle . Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters . Albany: SUNY P, 2003 . George , Olakunle . “The ‘Native...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 278–283.
Published: 01 August 2009
... as the strategies themselves, particularly in light of other post-1990s developments in Asian American and African American literature. The renewal of the white immigrant saga in the era of the genome certainly bears both aesthetic and political analysis. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Eugenides...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2010
... for “the Black Box,” the perfect elevator. The novel announces its participation in the tradition of African American literature by performing numerous standard tropes; it responds to the call of antebellum slave narratives by linking literacy and freedom and addresses topics such as double consciousness...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 375–387.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., and even diminish the achievements of black women writers and their contributions to American letters. Sources from the New York Times to Henry Louis Gates Jr. labeled Morrison's win a “great day” for black women writers, for black Americans, and for African American literature; but few if any commentaries...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 443–465.
Published: 01 November 2010
...J. Bradford Campbell This essay argues that Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) provides promising ground and a certain imperative to investigate the underexamined intersections between literature and the history of psychiatry. Especially where African American literature is concerned, there has...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 330–333.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Timothy Wright Graham Lucy Valerie , State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature . ( Oxford : Oxford UP , 2012 ), pp. 272 , cloth, $58.50 . © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press A Nation Writing Rape
lucy valerie graham...
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Novel (2002) 36 (1): 5–25.
Published: 01 May 2002
...: Harvard UP, 1993 . Harding , Sandra . Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking From Women’s Lives . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991 . Irele , Abiola . The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora . New York: Oxford UP, 2001 . Johnson , Samuel . The History...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 335–361.
Published: 01 November 2021
... , became, after its belated publication in 1925, “perhaps the first major [modern] African contribution to world literature,” the “first novel written in an African language which was to have an international circulation” ( Gérard, Four 116 and “Rereading” 1 ). 2 In addition to English, French...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 278–294.
Published: 01 August 2016
... . Planet of Slums . London : Verso , 2006 . Deb Siddhartha . The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India . New York : Faber and Faber , 2011 . Dunton Chris . “ Entropy and Energy: Lagos as a City of Words .” Research in African Literatures 39 . 2 ( 2008 ): 68...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 437–442.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of court, and then published Randall's novel—it misstated the political nature of parody to achieve a legal benefit. By sharpening the definition of parody to include the trope of irony, I demarcate the fine line separating African American literature's historic attacks on racial stereotypes from...
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