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Volume 39 (2011): Issue 1 (Jan 2011)

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Online ISSN:
1875-7421
Print ISSN:
0932-9714
Publisher:
Brill | Rodopi
Preliminary material
By: Editors Spheres Public and Private
Pages: i–x
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2011
Imagined Transformation: Notes on a Postcolonialism of African Literature
By: WUMI RAJI
Pages: 1–26
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African Literature: A Showcase for Africa’s Leadership Problems
By: SOLA AFOLAYAN
Pages: 27–39
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Lit-Orature Development, World Peace, and the Challenges of Literary Theory/Criticism
By: NELSON O. FASHINA
Pages: 41–56
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Thematization and Perspectivization of Conflict in Selected Yorùbá Literary Genres
By: ARINPE ADEJUMỌ
Pages: 57–74
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Paths of Revolutionary Contestation: Wole Soyinka’s Poetry and the Dialectic of Liberal Humanism
By: UDU YAKUBU
Pages: 75–98
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The Aesthetic of Rage in Recent Nigerian Poetry in English: Olu Oguibe and Ogaga Ifowodo
By: SULE E. EGYA
Pages: 99–114
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The Cumulative Neglect of Collective Responsibility: Postcoloniality, Ecology, and the Niger Deltascape in the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide
By: OGAGA OKUYADE
Pages: 115–131
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“Vipers who minute our twitches”: Psychopaths That Served Banda’s Malaŵian Dictatorship in Jack Mapanje’s Prison Poetry
By: REUBEN MAKAYIKO CHIRAMBO
Pages: 133–161
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Bringing Hinduism to Bear on the Ghanaian Situation: Ladé Wosornu’s Artistry as a Call for Spiritual Renewal
By: GORDON S.K. ADISA
Pages: 163–178
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Cultural Identity and Literature: A Study of Okot p’Bitek’s
By: KENNETH USONGO
Pages: 179–190
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Towards the Retrieval of the Lost Voice: Contestation and Reclamation of Discourse in Half a Century of African Women’s Europhone Fiction
By: AUGUSTINE H. ASAAH
Pages: 191–219
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Rulers Against Writers, Writers Against Rulers: The Failed Promise of the Public Sphere in Postcolonial Nigerian Fiction
By: AYO KEHINDE
Pages: 221–251
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A Lingering Nightmare: Achebe, Ofoegbu, and Adichie on Biafra
By: FRANÇOISE UGOCHUKWU
Pages: 253–272
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Where is the Text?: Chinua Achebe’s
By: BABATUNDE AYELERU
Pages: 273–283
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Perspectivization in Fiction: A Deictic Study of Wole Soyinka’s
By: AKIN ODEBUNMI and K.K. OLANIYAN
Pages: 285–299
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On the Threshold of Combat Poetics: The Novels of Festus Iyayi
By: JUDE AGHO and AYODELE BAMIDELE
Pages: 301–318
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Contentious Absolutism: The Public Sphere and the Imperative of Circumvention in Ngũgĩ’s
By: SENAYON OLAOLUWA
Pages: 319–336
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Subversion and the Carnivalesque: Images of Resistance in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s
By: NICK MDIKA TEMBO
Pages: 337–361
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What’s In a Title?: A Reading of Amma Darko’s
By: JOSEPH NSIAH and CHARLES MARFO
Pages: 363–375
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The Problems of Perspective in Mongo Beti’s
By: TRACEY WATTS
Pages: 377–398
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Epistolarity as Ethnography of Rebellion (or Alienation). Western Education and its After-Effects on the Female Subject in Mariama Bâ’s
By: ODE OGEDE
Pages: 399–422
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Ousmane Sembène’s . The Anatomy of a Strike and the Ideologeme of Solidarity
By: MASOOD ASHRAF RAJA
Pages: 423–440
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Sex, Power, and Community in Ousmane Sembène’s
By: LIFONGO VETINDE
Pages: 441–454
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Contesting the Religious Civilizing Mission of Empire in Hispanophone African Literature
By: JOANNA BOAMPONG
Pages: 455–490
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Pastoral Verbal Performance and Visual Aesthetics. Brother Jero’s Cape as Sign
By: MABEL I.E. EVWIERHOMA
Pages: 491–502
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“Not a girl to meet every day”. Feminist Identity Transformation in Ama Ata Aidoo’s
By: WUMI RAJI
Pages: 503–529
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Playing With History, Playing With Words. Ngũgĩ and Mugo’s
By: ADEMOLA O. DASYLVA
Pages: 531–542
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The ‘Inside’ Wife and the ‘Outside’ Wives in Ahmed Yerima’s
By: KOLA EKE
Pages: 543–556
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Arrah’s Existential Dilemma. A Study of Anne Tanyi–Tang’s
By: EMMANUEL N. NGWANG
Pages: 557–570
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Sameness Within Difference: Blurring ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ Liminality in Zakes Mda’s
By: BUSUYI MEKUSI
Pages: 571–597
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Areas of Shade, Areas of Darkness Poems and Stories
By: SAM RAITI MTAMBA
Pages: 599–641
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Tribute to Salih
By: EDGAR O. LAKE
Pages: 643–646
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Out of the Masks — A Play
By: TRACIE CHIMA UTOH–EZEAJUGH
Pages: 647–675
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A Literary Critic’s Appraisal
By: AYO KEHINDE
Pages: 677–686
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An Overlooked Medium
By: BRIAN C. SMITHSON
Pages: 687–691
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Rekindling Memory
By: CRISTINA BOSCOLO
Pages: 692–695
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An Alternative Cinema for the People
By: IZUU NWANKWọ
Pages: 696–701
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Books Received
By: Editors Spheres Public and Private
Pages: 702
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
By: Editors Spheres Public and Private
Pages: 703–710
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NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
By: Editors Spheres Public and Private
Pages: 711–712
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2011