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Annie Gagiano addresses more than twenty texts from various African regions and periods, ranging from transcriptions of ancient folktales to classic African English texts and recent writings on social and gender issues. Gagiano focuses on these texts' engagement with the forces that damage and threaten life in Africa and these authors' political courage, social concern, and subtle delineation of their characters' experiences. A new preface and several new essays bring the collection up to date with the latest developments in the field.
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition 1. Listening for the Mediated Voices of the Southern African Khoisan in Hendrik's Dwaalstories: Ironies and Wonders 2. Marecheran Postmodernism: Mocking the Bad Joke of "African Modernism" 3. Anomy and Agony in a Nation in Crisis: Soyinka's Season of Anomy 4. Finding Foundantions for Chance in Bessie Head's The Cardinals 5. Blood Gets a Voice: Unity Dow's The Screaming of the Innocent 6. Two Late Apartheid-Era Novels: Balancing the Books in the South African Present 7. Mongane Serote's To Every Birth Its Blood: Painting the True Colours of Apartheid 8. Shakespeare, (Fanon,) Salih: Can the Black Man Love the White Woman? Can the White Woman Love the Black Man? 9. A. C. Jordan's Tales From Southern Africa 10. Memory, Power and Bessie Head: A Question of Power 11. Patterns of Leadership in Bessie Head's Maru and A Bewitched Crossroad: An African Saga 12. "Barbarism" and "Civilisation" in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and in Marechera's Black Sunlight 13. Farah's Sweet and Sour Milk: The Noise in the Dictator's Ear 14. Performances, Ethics and Aesthetics of Wealth in African Literary Depiction 15. Three Takes on Somali Womanhood in the Eddies of the Contemporary Black Atlantic Context 16. Achebe's Children: Resonance, Poignance and Grandeur Acknowledgements
