Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2023.2168232
Darlington Chibueze Anuonye
Abstract For more than a decade Ikhide Roland Ikheloa, a Nigerian writer and literary critic, has been consistent in his advocacy for the recognition of the internet and social media as platforms that house authentic African narratives in the twenty-first century. In this interview, which took place between Maryland, USA and Aba, Nigeria through Facebook Messenger, Ikheloa expounds his views on the indispensability of digital technology in African literature.
十多年来，尼日利亚作家兼文学评论家伊克希德·罗兰·伊克罗阿(Ikhide Roland Ikheloa)一直主张将互联网和社交媒体视为二十一世纪真实非洲叙事的平台。在这次访谈中，Ikheloa通过Facebook Messenger在美国马里兰州和尼日利亚阿坝之间进行了访谈，他阐述了他对非洲文学中数字技术不可或缺的看法。
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Pub Date : 2022-11-17DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2022.2141478
Nathan Suhr-Sytsma
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Pub Date : 2022-10-11DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2022.2128269
Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke
Abstract The dominant way that Gothic is currently conceptualized in African literature is through postcolonial theory, examining repressed colonial history and horror. While there is nothing wrong with this framework, what this dominant approach does is flatten out and elide other complex ways of reading through what these texts have constructed as fearful and monstrous. This essay relies on the framework of Rebecca Duncan, who suggests a way of conceptualizing Afro-gothic that does not rely on the postcolonial theory paradigm. Following Abiola Irele, Duncan proposes Afro-gothic to be dependent on the influence of African orality where the “supernatural figures associated with particular cosmologies or mythologies … are presented in gothic terms” in the literary texts (Duncan 158). Using two canonical texts and a recent text based on Yoruba and Igbo oralities, the supernatural substrate, ogbanje/abiku from Igbo/Yoruba cosmologies within these texts will be excavated to reveal the Gothic dimensions that have previously been overlooked. I will engage in this analysis by closely reading Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the poem “Abiku” by JP Clark, and Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2022.2126102
A. Saine
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Pub Date : 2022-09-27DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2022.2124015
A. Adesola
{"title":"Writing That Breaks Stones: African Child Soldier Narratives","authors":"A. Adesola","doi":"10.1080/21674736.2022.2124015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2022.2124015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":116895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the African Literature Association","volume":"46 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133536427","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 : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2022.2122181
Isaac Ndlovu
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Pub Date : 2022-09-23DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2022.2118380
G. Ncube
transformation” (168). These cinematic works, as well as the film festival experience, demonstrate that even as queer Africans remain bound to violent heteropatriarchal systems that attempt to erase queerness, there are opportunities from within vulnerability for pleasure and life building, and to anticipate future freedom. Take, for instance, the promotional poster for OFF 2018. As Green-Simms explains, “the Rafiki ticket stub [featured on the poster], which marks the absence of the film itself, is a way of understanding defeat as political potential” (189). Just like the creative, subversive work discussed within, Queer African Cinemas represents the transformative potential of queer scholarship on Africa in the United States and West. I am completely impressed by Green-Simms’s apparent desire to resist conventions of Western queer scholarship, for instance, and her exemplary attention to the intricacies of queer African cultural production, which clearly informs her approach to cinematic close-reading. As a result, she presents to her audience a set of tools for interpreting queer and African art that can be simultaneously, and self-reflexively, applied to cultural analysis in/of the United States and the West. Green-Simms’s writing is wholly accessible, so I anticipate this book being able to impact readers in the academy, as well as beyond.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-05DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2022.2113620
Joya F. Uraizee
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2022.2143787
Anneeth Kaur Hundle
Abstract This commentary examines the contemporary relevance of Uganda’s 1972 Asian expulsion. It describes and argues against “expulsion exceptionalism,” or the ways that expulsion is understood as a singular event and through discourses of African-Asian racial estrangement, the racial victimization of Asians, the excesses of military dictator Idi Amin, and illiberal framings of Uganda, Africa and African governance. Rather, the expulsion is a global critical event and a continuous reality that remains unresolved yet is central to new practices of South Asian noncitizen incorporation by the current government. The “insecurities of expulsion” refer to: 1) the effects and affects of expulsion; 2) the imaginaries, memories and meaning-making around expulsion; and 3) the practices and performances of Ugandan Asian/South Asian citizenship that have emerged since expulsion. This research contributes to Afro-Asian futures and to anthropological and other disciplinary engagements with global/transnational “Afro-Asian study.”
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2022.2139344
Ayobami Onanuga
Abstract Homophobic attitudes continue to militate against the coming out of homosexuals in African societies. In this study, I examine the agentic difference between forced outing and self-outing among male homosexual characters in selected African fictional narratives. The texts employed are Jude Dibia’s Walking with Shadows and Tendai Huchu’s The Hairdresser of Harare. I argue that in forced outing, male homosexual characters undergo sexual oppression, are subjected to psychological oppression, and are denied their individual agency. In order to survive homophobia, these characters become liars, deceivers, and cheats. In their quest for social acceptance, they knowingly suppress their homosexual identity and pretend to perform societally normative heterosexuality. What is obvious in these novels is that queer visibility still represents a major challenge for members of minoritized sexual communities who consequently have to explore non-conventional measures in order to survive.
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