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Genres of Critique
This project seeks to open and explore a liminal space for critique between aesthetics and politics.
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The Days Lived in Yellow
How do we come to know what we think we know?
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Christianity and Social Thought in Contemporary African Literature
Against the background of ongoing debates about decolonisation and religion in Africa, this project examines the representation of, and engagement with Christianity in contemporary African literature.
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Ambivalence in the stand-up acts of Nigeria’s Klint da Drunk and Mr Paul
Nwankwọ, Izuu. 2022. Ambivalence in the stand-up acts of Nigeria’s Klint da Drunk and Mr Paul. Journal of the African Literature Association...
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Pandemic Literatures and Being Human in Times of Mass Infection and Catastrophe: Some African Perspectives
Manase, Irikidzayi and Thabisani Ndlovu. 2022. Pandemic Literatures and Being Human in Times of Mass Infection and Catastrophe: Some African...
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Speaking Animals in African Literature
This project deals with the representation of the narrating animal in present-day African texts written in English, French and Portuguese.
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Methodological Work Towards a Contemporary African Ephemeral Literature Archive
The published novel is on the decline across the African continent.
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Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora (Keguro Macharia)
Ncube, Gibson. 2021. Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora (Keguro Macharia). Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde, 58(1), 172–174. ...
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Response
Phiri, Aretha. 2021. Response. Interventions, 23(1), 170–175. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1843518
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African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon
Phiri, Aretha. (Ed.). 2020. African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon. Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN...
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Transgressing Borders: (Re)imagining Africa(ns) in the World
Phiri, Aretha. (Ed.). 2020. Transgressing Borders: (Re)imagining Africa(ns) in the World. In African Philosophical and Literary Possibilitie...
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Introduction: Re-reading the Canon, Re-reading Africa
Phiri, Aretha. (Ed.). 2020. Introduction: Re-reading the Canon, Re-reading Africa. In African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-r...
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Queues of Limitless Hope: The Novel and Social Crisis in the African Republic of Letters
Queues of Limitless Hope asks: what happens to the novel form under the conditions of protracted socio-political crisis?
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Unsettled Subjects: Sex Work in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street
Okolo, Ifeyinwa G. 2019. Unsettled Subjects: Sex Work in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street. English Studies in Africa, 62(2), 112–123....
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“Human Beings Have a Hard Time Relating to That Which Does Not Resemble Them”: Queering Normativity in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon
Ncube, Gibson. 2020. “Human Beings Have a Hard Time Relating to That Which Does Not Resemble Them”: Queering Normativity in Nnedi Okorafor’s...
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Fingering the Jagged Grain: Rereading Afropolitanism (and Africa) in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go
Phiri, Aretha. 2020. Fingering the Jagged Grain: Rereading Afropolitanism (and Africa) in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go. In James Hodapp (Ed....
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The politics and poetics of old age: Drawing on Law and Literature to assess the (cultural) legitimacy of African Union norms on the rights of older persons
The African Union in January 2016 adopted a treaty – the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Older Persons – dealing with the rights of older persons in Africa.
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Race, decolonization, and global citizenship in South Africa
Okeja, Uchenna. 2019. Race, decolonization, and global citizenship in South Africa. Journal of the African Literature Association, 1–2. http...
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Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature: Feminist Empathy
Eze, Chielozona. 2016. Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature: Feminist Empathy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. http://...
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Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds
Nyamnjoh, Francis B. 2017. Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds. Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG. http://langaa-rpci...
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Sexualities and (Dis)Abilities: (Re)Valuing Being Sexual Humans through Body Narratives
This study reads narratives that focus on the representations of (dis)abled bodies in sexually charged spaces in a bid to (re)value these bodies as they negotiate their humanity as well as their capacity to give and receive pleasure.
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Short Stories of the World: Africa
This intended collection will include around 20 African short stories which will be translated into Icelandic.
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Translation of the Amharic Novel, Tobiya (1907) into English
African-language literatures have long and deep histories in their societies but take place within fenced literary spaces and typically are unavailable to world literature audiences.
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Hiraeth (a novel)
The creative project, a novel with the working title ‘Hiraeth’, is conceived of as a mythopeoic journey story undertaken by nine young misfits from different parts of the world, attending a private boarding school in Kenya, who are haunted by a common dream and the persistent summons of a honey-guide.
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The work and legacy of Sesotho writer Thomas Mofolo
Dunton and Krog are to edit for peer review and publication a set of papers delivered at a conference held in Lesotho on the work of Sesotho writer Thomas Mofolo.
