The locations and dislocations of African literature : a dialogue between humanities and social science scholars / edited by Eileen Julien and Biodun Jeyifo.
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The locations and dislocations of African literature : a dialogue between humanities and social science scholars / edited by Eileen Julien and Biodun Jeyifo.
African literature and the social science paradigm / Simon Gikandi -- Forewords and foreskins : the author as ethnographer in African literature / Rhonda Cobham -- The invention of oral literature : epics from the Sudan-Sahelian zone / Mamadou Diouf -- Towards new readings of neo-traditional tales : Birago Diop through the prism of the local / Eileen Julien -- History, gender and the problem of representation in the novels of Yvonne Vera / Nana Wilson Tagoe -- Between fiction and history : modes of writing abortion in Africa / Nancy Rose Hunt -- On poetry and positivism : the quickening of the unknown / Jane I. Guyer -- Whose theatre, whose Africa? : Wole Soyinka's The road on the road / Biodun Jeyifo.