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<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p>Preface xv</p> <p><b>Part I East and Central Africa 1</b></p> <p>1 East and Central Africa: An Introduction 3<br /><i>Grace A. Musila</i></p> <p>2 Rereading East African Literature Through a Human Rights Lens: The Example of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Weep Not, Child 19<br /><i>Katwiwa Mule</i></p> <p>3 Of Authenticity and Engagement in Francophone African Cultural Production 29<br /><i>Brian Valente-Quinn</i></p> <p>4 Literature and Hybridity in Mauritius and Réunion 45<br /><i>Anjali Prabhu</i></p> <p>5 The Representation of Nation and National Identity in Modern Amharic Literature 61<br /><i>Tewodros Gebre</i></p> <p>6 Swahili Literature (Fasihi ya Kiswahili) 79<br /><i>Evan Maina Mwangi</i></p> <p><b>Part II North Africa 101</b></p> <p>7 North Africa: An Introduction 103<br /><i>Mohamed-Salah Omri</i></p> <p>8 Nation and Identity in Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt 117<br /><i>Ahmed Idrissi Alami</i></p> <p>9 Hyphens & Hymens: francoarab Literature of the Maghreb 133<br /><i>yasser elhariry</i></p> <p>10 Translation and North African Letters 151<br /><i>Tahia Abdel Nasser</i></p> <p>11 Cross-Pollination and Interweavings between the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa Through Art, Cinema, and Music 165<br /><i>Hélène Tissières</i></p> <p>12 France and North Africa: A Cinematic Retrospective of Centuries of Entangled Relations 181<br /><i>Fazia Aïtel</i></p> <p><b>Part III Southern Africa 195</b></p> <p>13 Southern Africa: An Introduction 197<br /><i>Stefan Helgesson</i></p> <p>14 Anglophone Literature of South Africa 213<br /><i>Peter Blair</i></p> <p>15 The Machinery of Life-Writing Under Zimbabwe's Third Chimurenga 235<br /><i>Josiah Nyanda</i></p> <p>16 The Afrikaans Cultural Expressions of the Powerless and Subjugated 251<br /><i>Hein Willemse</i></p> <p>17 Lusophone Southern African Literature (Angola, Mozambique) 267<br /><i>Luís Madureira</i></p> <p>18 A Socio-Critical Survey of Black South African English Poetry, 1900-2000 283<br /><i>Thengani H. Ngwenya</i></p> <p><b>Part IV West Africa 303</b></p> <p>19 West Africa: An Introduction 305<br /><i>Olakunle George</i></p> <p>20 West African Literature in English 319<br /><i>Neil ten Kortenaar</i></p> <p>21 Migration, Literary Imagination, and Mirages in the Francophone Text: Paths to Anthropological Mutilation 333<br /><i>Cilas Kemedjio</i></p> <p>22 Reading Yorùbá Literature 351<br /><i>Adélékè Adeeko</i></p> <p><b>Part V Redoublings and Reconstellations 365</b></p> <p>23 Post-Hybrid Conjunctive Consciousness in the Literature of the New African Diaspora 367<br /><i>Lokangaka Losambe</i></p> <p>24 Outing Africa: On Sexualities, Gender, and Transgender in African Literatures 381<br /><i>Chantal Zabus</i></p> <p>25 African Literature and the European Canon: From Past to Present and Back Again 399<br /><i>Jeanne-Marie Jackson</i></p> <p>26 War, Human Rights, and Historical Representation: Torture as Synecdoche 411<br /><i>Eleni Coundouriotis</i></p> <p>27 African Literature's Other Media: Art Film, Nollywood 425<br /><i>Noah Tsika</i></p> <p>28 Navigating Digital Worlds: African Literary Forms in the Digital Age 439<br /><i>Stephanie Bosch Santana</i></p> <p>Index 455</p>

<p><b>Olakunle George</b> 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 <i>African Literature and Social Change: Tribe, Nation, Race</i>, and <i>Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters</i>.</p>

<p><b>A COMPANION TO AFRICAN LITERATURES</b></p> <p>How have African literatures unfolded in their rich diversity in our modern era of decolonization, nationalisms, and extensive transnational movement of peoples? How have African writers engaged urgent questions regarding race, nation, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality? And how do African literary genres interrelate with traditional oral forms or audio-visual and digital media? <i>A Companion to African Literatures</i> addresses these issues and many more.</p> <p>Consisting of essays by distinguished scholars and emerging leaders in the field, this book offers rigorous, deeply engaging discussions of African literatures on the continent and in diaspora. It covers the four main geographical regions (East and Central Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa), presenting ample material to learn from and think with. Chapters focus on literatures in European languages officially used in Africa —English, French, and Portuguese— as well as homegrown African languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Swahili, and Yoruba. With its lineup of lucid and authoritative analyses, readers will find in <i>A Companion to African Literatures</i> a distinctive, rewarding academic resource.</p>

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