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Naminata Diabate, Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa Naminata Diabate，裸体机构:非洲的生殖诅咒和生物政治
Journal of the African Literature Association Pub Date : 2022-04-29 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2022.2059850
Naminata Diabate
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The anatomy of oblivion in José Eduardo Agualusa’s A General Theory of Oblivion 约瑟夫·爱德华多·阿瓜卢萨《遗忘通论》对遗忘的剖析
Journal of the African Literature Association Pub Date : 2022-02-18 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2021.2023420
S. Adebayo
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Femi Osofisan and the process of adaptation Femi Osofisan和适应的过程
Journal of the African Literature Association Pub Date : 2022-01-26 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2021.2023419
C. Dunton
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引用次数: 1
Genealogies as an interpretive paradigm for engaging African women writers’ historical consciousness 《家谱》是介入非洲女作家历史意识的一种解释范式
Journal of the African Literature Association Pub Date : 2022-01-24 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2021.2016250
M. N. Were
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引用次数: 2
The shifting identity in Slave: The True Story of a Girl’s Lost Childhood and Her Fight for Survival by Mende Nazer Mende Nazer的《奴隶:一个女孩失去童年的真实故事和她为生存而战》中身份的转变
Journal of the African Literature Association Pub Date : 2022-01-24 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2022.2026061
E. G. Wanjau
{"title":"The shifting identity in Slave: The True Story of a Girl’s Lost Childhood and Her Fight for Survival by Mende Nazer","authors":"E. G. Wanjau","doi":"10.1080/21674736.2022.2026061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2022.2026061","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper explores the question of identity in Slave: The True Story of a Girl’s Lost Childhood and her Fight for Survival by Mende Nazer. Identity is studied from two perspectives: identity of the protagonist and identity of the text. The paper focuses on how Mende Nazer reconstructs her identity through recalling and narrating her experiences before, during and after slavery. The paper exposes the multiple layers of identity that emerge from the text where Damien Lewis—a white man, an abolitionist and a journalist who writes down Nazer’s story—influences not just the identity of the protagonist but also the identity of the text. This is due to the fact that the text’s main aim is to campaign against modern-day slavery. Mende Nazer’s place of residence at the time of telling her story also influences how she reconstructs her identity.","PeriodicalId":116895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the African Literature Association","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116680295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Bonding beyond struggle: a reconsideration of female togetherness in Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come 超越斗争的纽带:在塞菲·阿塔的《一切都会好的》中对女性团结的重新思考
Journal of the African Literature Association Pub Date : 2022-01-21 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2021.2017748
Sandra Nwokocha
{"title":"Bonding beyond struggle: a reconsideration of female togetherness in Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come","authors":"Sandra Nwokocha","doi":"10.1080/21674736.2021.2017748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2021.2017748","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Coalition politics is gaining critical attention across the social sciences, and in feminist studies more precisely, since it promises a feasible solution to social issues for scholars concerned with social justice. Such political alliances with an emphasis on the feminist concept of sisterhood have proved a gateway to female freedom. However, while the merit of sisterhood is recognized mostly in terms of women in conflict with male tyranny, the feminist political agenda advanced through empowering women as best friends, supporters, and benefactors is less understood. Focusing on Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come (2005), this paper advances intimate and political associations as proactive ways through which feminist partnership-building is attained, stressing women in rapport with themselves rather than in struggle with men as the hallmark of feminist desire, purpose, and politics.","PeriodicalId":116895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the African Literature Association","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134304319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
A tale of two fighters: images of child soldiers in Jewish and African child soldier narratives 两个战士的故事:犹太和非洲儿童兵叙事中的儿童兵形象
Journal of the African Literature Association Pub Date : 2022-01-20 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2021.2015824
A. Adesola
{"title":"A tale of two fighters: images of child soldiers in Jewish and African child soldier narratives","authors":"A. Adesola","doi":"10.1080/21674736.2021.2015824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2021.2015824","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this essay I examine the representations of child soldiers in Yuri Suhl’s Uncle Misha’s Partisans and Emmanuel Dongala’s Johnny Mad Dog. While Suhl’s novel recreates the historical fact of Jewish children’s involvement in the organized group of resistance fighters – called the Jewish Partisans – during the Second World War and in that sense serves to recreate the history of Jewish child soldiering, Dongala’s narrative portrays a conflict in which children are instrumentalized as soldiers in a war propelled by mere avarice, the fighters as ideologically barren, and the children involved as mainly innocent victims of adults’ myopia. In comparatively examining these two narratives, I argue that, whereas Suhl offers a positive portraiture of Jewish child soldiers as patriotic beings with agency and voice and constructs a far more nuanced perspective of childhood innocence, Dongala in his own work represents African child soldiers in familiarly negative light.","PeriodicalId":116895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the African Literature Association","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132831934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
A life elsewhere: figurations of the journey in Wilma Stockenström’s The Expedition to the Baobab Tree 别处的生活:威尔玛Stockenström的《猴面包树之旅》中的旅途形象
Journal of the African Literature Association Pub Date : 2022-01-20 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2021.2016249
Dirk Klopper, Elizabeth K. Sekwiha-Gwajima
{"title":"A life elsewhere: figurations of the journey in Wilma Stockenström’s The Expedition to the Baobab Tree","authors":"Dirk Klopper, Elizabeth K. Sekwiha-Gwajima","doi":"10.1080/21674736.2021.2016249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2021.2016249","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Wilma Stockenström’s novel The Expedition to the Baobab Tree provides a first-person account of a fifteenth-century slave woman who was abducted in childhood from her forest village, sold in a Swahili coastal city to a succession of masters, and has come to inhabit the hollow of a baobab tree in the interior of the land after a failed expedition to find a trade route to a mercantile city rumored to be located in the distant northwest of the continent. The life story of journeys undertaken by the narrator is mirrored in the formal crossings of genres that include slave narrative, colonial travelogue, adventure fiction and nature writing. Taking as point of departure the English translation of an Afrikaans novel, and the implication of an Afrikaans writer’s use of a first-person point of view in telling the life story of a slave woman, the paper discusses the significance of the novel’s crossing of linguistic, cultural, and generic boundaries, and relates this to its thematic preoccupation with the crossing of the boundary between culture and nature.","PeriodicalId":116895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the African Literature Association","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116085607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Confinement and beyond: space, mobility, and connections in two Mau Mau detention memoirs 禁闭和超越:空间，流动性和联系在两个茅茅拘留回忆录
Journal of the African Literature Association Pub Date : 2022-01-17 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2021.2016248
I. Brinkman
{"title":"Confinement and beyond: space, mobility, and connections in two Mau Mau detention memoirs","authors":"I. Brinkman","doi":"10.1080/21674736.2021.2016248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2021.2016248","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This contribution analyzes two detention diaries, by J. M. Kariuki (Mau Mau Detainee: The Account by a Kenya African of His Experiences in the Detention Camps 1953–1960. Oxford University Press, 1963) and Gakaara wa Wanjaũ (Mwandĩki wa Mau Mau Ithaamĩrio-Inĩ. Heinemann, 1983), that interpret life in the colonial camps in Kenya in the 1950s. Focusing on aspects of movement, camp landscapes, sociability, bodily degradation, writing and the mobility of materials, the article shows that colonial policy aimed at a process of reducing prisoners to “bare persons,” while detainees attempted to stay as close to their social networks and themselves as possible. In the constant struggle and negotiation over mobility, connections and communication, camp personnel and prisoners do not appear as homogeneous groups. Clearly Mau Mau’s detention camps were horrible places with often extremely violent conditions. Yet, a simplified, dichotomous analysis stands in the way of understanding the capricious nature of colonial practice, and reduces the detainees to their status as detainees, while they aimed precisely to overcome the spatial and bodily restrictions imposed, attempting to connect beyond the camps.","PeriodicalId":116895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the African Literature Association","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123599380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Revisiting Sol Plaatje’s Mafeking Diary 回顾索尔·吉尔斯的Mafeking日记
Journal of the African Literature Association Pub Date : 2022-01-12 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2021.2016252
B. Willan
{"title":"Revisiting Sol Plaatje’s Mafeking Diary","authors":"B. Willan","doi":"10.1080/21674736.2021.2016252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2021.2016252","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (1876–1932) is one of South Africa’s best known political and literary figures, his novel Mhudi now part of the literary canon. Yet his Mafeking Diary, written during the siege of Mafeking, one of the best known episodes of the South African War of 1899–1902, has been surprisingly neglected. In this article I suggest that this may have to do with the indeterminate status of the genre of the diary, and the fact that it does not fit in easily with a nationalist narrative that has privileged the political. In arguing for its importance, I look at the social and intellectual influences that helped form Plaatje’s world view as reflected in the diary; the circumstances in which he wrote it; his reasons for writing it; who he envisaged would read it; how its nature and form were affected by the events that went on around him; the choices he made about what to include and what to omit; the literary models upon which he drew; the linguistic choices he made; the opportunities the diary provided to develop not only his literary skills but a wider sense of self.","PeriodicalId":116895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the African Literature Association","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132507051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
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