A Companion to African Literatures

Notes on Contributors ix Preface xv Part I East and Central Africa 1 1 East and Central Africa: An Introduction 3 Grace A. Musila 2 Rereading East African Literature Through a Human Rights Lens: The Example of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Weep Not, Child 19 Katwiwa Mule 3 Of Authenticity and Engagement in Francophone African Cultural Production 29 Brian Valente-Quinn 4 Literature and Hybridity in Mauritius and Réunion 45 Anjali Prabhu 5 The Representation of Nation and National Identity in Modern Amharic Literature 61 Tewodros Gebre 6 Swahili Literature (Fasihi ya Kiswahili) 79 Evan Maina Mwangi Part II North Africa 101 7 North Africa: An Introduction 103 Mohamed-Salah Omri 8 Nation and Identity in Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt 117 Ahmed Idrissi Alami 9 Hyphens & Hymens: francoarab Literature of the Maghreb 133 yasser elhariry 10 Translation and North African Letters 151 Tahia Abdel Nasser 11 Cross-Pollination and Interweavings between the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa Through Art, Cinema, and Music 165 Hélène Tissières 12 France and North Africa: A Cinematic Retrospective of Centuries of Entangled Relations 181 Fazia Aïtel Part III Southern Africa 195 13 Southern Africa: An Introduction 197 Stefan Helgesson 14 Anglophone Literature of South Africa 213 Peter Blair 15 The Machinery of Life-Writing Under Zimbabwe's Third Chimurenga 235 Josiah Nyanda 16 The Afrikaans Cultural Expressions of the Powerless and Subjugated 251 Hein Willemse 17 Lusophone Southern African Literature (Angola, Mozambique) 267 Luís Madureira 18 A Socio-Critical Survey of Black South African English Poetry, 1900-2000 283 Thengani H. Ngwenya Part IV West Africa 303 19 West Africa: An Introduction 305 Olakunle George 20 West African Literature in English 319 Neil ten Kortenaar 21 Migration, Literary Imagination, and Mirages in the Francophone Text: Paths to Anthropological Mutilation 333 Cilas Kemedjio 22 Reading Yorùbá Literature 351 Adélékè Adeeko Part V Redoublings and Reconstellations 365 23

Olakunle George is Professor of English and Africana Studies at Brown University. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association's Forum on 20th and 21st Century Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies (2012-2017), and the Executive Committee of the Division on African Literatures (1999-2004). He is the author of African Literature and Social Change: Tribe, Nation, Race, and Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters.