Title: The locations and dislocations of African literature : a dialogue between humanities and social science scholars /
Authors: Julien, Eileen, 1949-; Jeyifo, Biodun, 1946-
Year: 2016
Subjects: African literature History and criticism Theory, etc.; African literature Study and teaching.; Literature and society Africa.; Africa In literature.; Africa Study and teaching.
Contents: 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.