Research in African Literatures articles from September 2005

Research in African Literatures archives from September 2005

Editor's comments.(African literature)(Orientalism by Edward Said)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
September 22, 2005... The present special issue of Research in African Literatures devoted to Edward Said is the result of a PAL editorial board decision taken in late 2003, shortly after Said's death, to pay tribute to his memory and work. Although his actual...

The politics and poetics of exile Edward Said in Africa.
September 22, 2005... ABSTRACT This paper focuses on one central trope of Edward Said's work--exile. Exile looms large in Said's personal, professional, and political life as an existential and epistemological condition, as a spatial and temporal state of...

A man for all seasons and climes? Reading Edward Said from and for our African place.
September 22, 2005... ABSTRACT Is it possible--and if so desirable--to read and appropriate Edward Said and his work as African and Africanist? This essay answers "why not?" But it does so against a current of Afficanist and Third Worldist critique that...

Edward Said and Assia Djebar: a contrapuntal reading.
September 22, 2005... ABSTRACT In Orientalism, Edward Said defines the relationship between the Occident and the Orient as one of power and domination, positing Orientalism as an exclusively male phenomenon, and the Oriental woman a projection of European...

The re-invention of Africa: Edward Said, V.Y. Mudimbe, and beyond.(Imperialism in postcolonial Africa)
September 22, 2005... ABSTRACT Edward W. Said and V. Y. Mudimbe are both whistleblowers against ideologies of Otherness, which Mudimbe calls "alterity" and Said has made famous as "Orientalism." Said traces "the invention of the Orient" back to the Western...

Edward Said and Michel Foucault: affinities and dissonances.
September 22, 2005... ABSTRACT Edward Said played a key role in introducing Foucault's work to academics in the United States. While this initial appreciation of Foucault's thought was also reflected in his own work, it was not to last, however. Said's...

Critique and extension: said and Freud.(Said (literary criticism) and Freud (psychoanalytic criticism))
September 22, 2005... ABSTRACT Although they are his preferred analytical strategies, critique and extension only emerge fully in Said's later works. Critique entails recognizing prior thinkers' conceptual, theoretical, and methodological advancements while...

Representations of the intellectual in Representations of the Intellectual (1).(Orientalism by Edward Said)
September 22, 2005... ABSTRACT In this essay, I offer a reading of Edward W. Said's intellectual politics and of his understanding of intellectualism. I begin by discussing the debate over the status and value of Said's most celebrated and influential book,...

(Not) reading Orientalism.(Book written by Edward Said (criticism))
September 22, 2005... ABSTRACT Since its publication in the late 1970s, Orientalism has been subject to a wide variety of not always friendly interpretations, prompting Edward Said to offer one or two additions, correctives, and sideswipes of his own. This...

Enlightenment postcolonialism.(Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation (books))(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... BOOKS DISCUSSED: Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation BY PENG CHEAH New York: Columbia UP, 2003. Enlightenment against Empire BY SANKAR MUTHU Princeton: Princeton UP,...

Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution.(by Sybille Fischer Durham)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution. By Sibylle Fischer Durham: Duke UP, 2004. xvi + 364 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3290-6 paper. To write an over-three-hundred-page text based on traces,...

Oeuvres completes de Jacques Roumain.(ed. Leon-Francois Hoffman)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Oeuvres completes de Jacques Roumain Ed. Leon-Francois Hoffman Collection Archivos. Madrid: UNESCO, 2003. li + 1690 pp. ISBN 84-89666-68-7 cloth. The publication of the critical edition of Jacques Roumain's complete works is the...

Writing in Crisis: Ethics and History in Gordimer, Ndebele and Coetzee.(by Stefan Hegelsson Scottsville)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Writing in Crisis: Ethics and History in Gordimer, Ndebele and Coetzee By Stefan Helgesson Scottsville: U of KwaZulu P, 2004. ISBN 1-86914-044-3. The most conflict-ridden decade in the fraught history of apartheid South Africa was...

Playwriting and Directing in Nigeria: Interviews with Ola Rotimi.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Playwriting and Directing in Nigeria: Interviews with Ola Rotimi Ed. Effiok Bassey Uwatt Lagos: Apex, 2002. ISBN 978-2126-80-2. Available: Apex Books Ltd., Academy Suite, NISPIRI House, Barikisu Iyede Street, off University of Lagos Road,...

Literature of Africa.(by Douglas Killam)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Literature of Africa By Douglas Killam Literature as Windows to World Culture. Westport: Greenwood, 2004. xvii + 204 pp. ISBN 0-313-31901-1 cloth. Douglas Killam's Literature of Africa is a basic introduction to its title subject,...

The Cambridge history of African and Caribbean Literature, Volumes 1 and 2.(by Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature, Volumes 1 and 2 Ed. F. Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 906 pages I first came across these volumes last summer in the city of Cambridge...