JALA: Volume 7, No. 1

Summer/Fall 2012
Abioseh Porter, Editor

Table of Contents

Obierika's Children at Work and Play: Rethinking African Literary Studies In The 21st Century ALA Presidential Address 2012
Anthonia Kalu

Articles
Shame As A Structure of Feeling: Raped and Prostituted Women in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Futhi Ntshingila’s Shameless
Sarah Bezan

Wole Soyinka: Dance Master of Appetite
Daniel Gover

Crying as we Laugh: Writing Human Rights in Wahome Mutahi´s Prison Memoirs
Maina Mutonya

René Maran, Forgotten Father of the Francophone Novel
Felisa V Reynolds

Victimhood and Agency in the Works of Ama Ata Aidoo
Rose Sackeyfio

(Re)Constructing Masculinity and Femininity in African War Narratives : The Youth in Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Gorretti Kyomuhendo'sWaiting: A Novel of Uganda at War
Pauline Uwakweh

“Jeunesse africaine et paradigme transnational dans Le ventre de l'Atlantique de Fatou Diome”
Paul N Touré

Creating Transgressive Space in Ezeigbo's The Last of the Strong Ones and Emecheta's Double Yoke
Solomon Omatsola Azumurana

Reviews
Spheres Public and Private: Western Genres in African Literature. Gordon Collier, ed.
Ernest Cole

The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance. Harold Scheub.
Blessing Dialla-Ogamba

African Diasporas: Ancestors, Migrations and Boundaries. Robert Cancel and Winifred Woodhull, eds. 
Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg

Women's Voices from West Africa: An Anthology of Songs from the Sahel. Aissatou G. Sidikou and Thomas A. Hale, eds.
Debra S. Boyd

Bulawayo Burning: The Social History of A Southern African City 1893-1960. Terence Ranger.
Joy L. Wrolson

African-American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance and Stage. Soyica Diggs Colbert, ed. 
André Carrington

We Are All Zimbabweans Now: A Novel. James Kilgore.
Joy L. Wrolson

Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi. Ernest N. Emenyonu and Maureen N. Eke, eds.
Valerie A. Booth

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