Pub Date : 2023-11-27DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2023.2277548
C. Garritano
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Pub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2023.2277549
C. Garritano
{"title":"Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-ScapesSpace and Time in African Cinema and Cine-Scapes, by Kenneth W. Harrow. Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge Press, 2022, 250 pp., ISBN 9781032264707. Hardback. GBP 104.00","authors":"C. Garritano","doi":"10.1080/21674736.2023.2277549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2023.2277549","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":116895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the African Literature Association","volume":"190 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139250914","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}
Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2023.2278840
Marion Tricoire
Abstract Two novels by Cameroonian writers came out within a few months of each other, each portraying a cross-country journey from the city of Douala in the South to the troubled region of the Far North of Cameroon. Max Lobe’s Loin de Douala (2018) and Hemley Boum’s Les Jours viennent et passent (2019) differ in many ways, but the common journey North in a context of widespread attacks by the terrorist group Boko Haram in the region in the mid-2010s shows a need for a literary imaginary that includes regional mobilities and current societal issues in Cameroon. I argue that the fictional regional journeys undertaken by the characters uncover not only a different kind of embodied mobility, but also questions of religious extremism and opportunities for the youth by transporting the characters to the locations where these issues are most pressing, and perhaps least publicly discussed. Spatial proximity becomes a way to change the themes the writers’ fiction embrace, to “get closer” as it were to some of the key questions of the region writ large.
摘要 喀麦隆作家的两部小说在几个月内相继问世，各自描写了从南部城市杜阿拉到喀麦隆极北动荡地区的跨国旅程。Max Lobe的《Loin de Douala》（2018年）和Hemley Boum的《Les Jours viennent et passent》（2019年）在许多方面有所不同，但在2010年代中期恐怖组织 "博科哈拉姆"（Boko Haram）在该地区大肆袭击的背景下向北旅行的共同点表明，需要一种包含地区流动性和喀麦隆当前社会问题的文学想象。我认为，小说中人物所进行的地区旅行不仅揭示了一种不同的移动性，而且还揭示了宗教极端主义和青年机会的问题，因为小说将人物带到了这些问题最紧迫但可能最不被公开讨论的地方。空间上的接近成为改变作家小说主题的一种方式，"接近 "该地区的一些关键问题。
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Pub Date : 2023-08-29DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2023.2249299
Anh P. Nguyen
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Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2023.2242191
Madeline Bedecarre
{"title":"De quoi la littérature africaine est-elle la littérature: pour une critique décoloniale","authors":"Madeline Bedecarre","doi":"10.1080/21674736.2023.2242191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2023.2242191","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":116895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the African Literature Association","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124511765","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}
Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2023.2223025
Serawit B. Debele
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2023.2228109
Megan Cole Paustian
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2023.2232650
Mary S. Lederer
On 17 November 2014, the Bessie Head Heritage Trust, located in Botswana in southern Africa, received an email from Antonie Chibesakunda. Chibesakunda was a German woman who, when she was younger, had spent time in southern Africa. She was now living in Munich, Germany, where she had met and befriended Cordelia Guenther. Guenther had also spent time in Cape Town, South Africa and met Bessie Emery, later Bessie Head, while she was there. Chibesakunda, in the course of cleaning out Guenther’s house after Guenther was moved to a care facility, found some documents that she thought the Trust would be interested in. These documents consisted of a very short correspondence between Head and Guenther; a pencil sketch of Head drawn by Guenther; some unpublished poems by Head; two letters in German from Guenther, one to her mother and one to a friend, describing Head and the first time Guenther met her; a copy of a scholarship application letter that Head had written; and a copy of a call for contributions to the first issue of Head’s newsletter The Citizen. The documents date from 19 May to 1 August 1961. They were scanned and emailed to me between 24 and 26 November 2014, and the originals were couriered to Botswana shortly thereafter. They have been donated by Chibesakunda to the Khama III Memorial Museum in Serowe, Botswana, which houses the Bessie Head Papers.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2023.2211857
Farah Bakaari
Abstract This article engages with Ayi Kwei Armah’s 1968 novel The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born to examine what happens when the promise of future-making, conceptually restored with independence, confronts an unchanged, unchangeable present? I argue that Armah’s novel positions affect and affectability as the primary mode of subjectification and subjugation in the postcolony. More specifically, I show how the novel advances a postcolonial theory of affect that scrutinizes the progressivist temporal politics that founds the postcolonial state and the affective economies that sustain it. In turn, I argue that disaffection becomes the primary way the novel resists the progressivist ethos of the postcolony as it enables Armah’s protagonist to reckon with the tragedy of freedoms unrealized and recognize himself as a subject in and of history.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2023.2228073
Oluwadunni O. Talabi
Abstract In reading Freshwater (2018), one cannot but confront the diversity of perspectives that Akwaeke Emezi deploys to usher their African queer protagonist into an African-oriented queer future. While there exists – or should exist – pluriversal notions of subjectivity and intersubjectivity, specific epistemologies produced by Eurocentric structures continue to govern these notions and drive liberational discourse. Drawing largely from Afro/Africanfuturism, Queer futurism, and cultural references drawn from African systems of thought, I argue that Emezi’s novel brings together modern technological intervention on the human body and Igbo cosmology to liberate the African queer body from Western dominant structures of knowledge and Africa’s cultural amnesia. I also argue that the futuristic perspectives deployed in Freshwater allows for the destabilizing of conventional knowledge at the level of language and imagery such that suppressed and new structures of consciousness are centered. This is shown through the emblematic figure of the deified African woman, the redemptive link between the female image and sacred python, the symbiosis between visual and non-visual components, and the polytheistic religious value of collaboration. I highlight, ultimately, that the intersection of technology and imagination for the goal of liberation, which critical futurism espouses, allows Emezi to regenerate the historiography of the Ogbanje without surrendering to the vocabulary of doom, misery and despair that frames their shortly lived human existence.
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