African literature comes of age / / editor, Ernest N. Emenyonu.

• Superior document: African literature today
• TeilnehmendeR: Emenyonu, Ernest, 1939-
• Place / Publishing House: Rochester, New York : : James Curre,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: African literature today.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages).

Explores and interrogates the many and diverse perspectives of the new frontiers of African literary studies.

Table of Contents

African Literature Comes of Age / -- r Ernest N. Emenyonu -- -- t Of Literature & Medicine: Narrating Sickle Cell Disease in a Nigerian Novel / -- r Kazeem Adebiyi-Adelabu -- -- t Posthumanism & Speciesism in African Literature: Animals & the Animalized in Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness / -- r Chikwurah Destiny Isiguzo -- -- t Manifestations of Masculinities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Novels: Initiating a Talk on Black Masculinity Studies / -- r Paramita Routh Roy -- -- t Transformative Female Narratives & New Visions in African Women's Writing: A Re-reading of NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names & Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah / -- r Nonye Chinyere Ahumibe -- -- t Religion, Capitalism & Politics: The Revolutionary Imagination in the Plays of Nawal El Saadawi / -- r H. Oby Okolocha -- -- t Approaching Gang Violence on the Cape Flats in Rehana Rossouw's What Will People Say? / -- r Alexandra Negri -- -- t The Denunciation of Religious Collusion with Colonization in Devil on the Cross & Matigari / -- r Christophe Se´ke`ne Diouf -- -- t The Weapons of Subjugation in Imbolo Mbue's How Beautiful We Were / -- r Benedicta Adeola Ehanire -- -- t Abrogating Aesthetic Boundaries in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry: A Reading of Femi Abodunrin's Poetry as Drama / -- r Sani Gambo -- -- t The End of Robert Mugabe: On Knowledge Production & Political Power / -- r Tinashe Mushakavanhu -- -- t The Text & Textual Fields of African Popular Literature: The Agency of Nigerian Stand-Up Comedy / -- r John Uwa -- -- t 'Ezuga' (Short Story) / -- r Kasimma -- -- t Four Poems: 'Mis/Identity'; 'Portable Longing'; 'Darkling Shores'; 'Mea Culpa' / -- r Eugen M. Bacon -- -- t Remembering Professor Charles R. Larson (14 January 1938-22 May 2021) / -- r Tijan M. Sallah -- -- t The End of an Era: A Tribute to Nawal El Saadawi (27 October 1931-21 March 2021) / -- r Razinat T. Mohammed -- -- t Reviews.