Teaching the African novel /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Modern Language Association of America,
2009.
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| Series: | Options for teaching ;
24. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : teaching the African novel / Gaurav Desai
- Pt. I. Theories and methods
- African novels and the question of theory / Olakunle George
- Marxist approaches to the African novel / Nicholas Brown
- Why history matters in the African novel / Eleni Coundouriotis
- Political critique and resistance in African fiction / Tejumola Olaniyan
- Women writers and gender in the sub-Saharan novel / Odile Cazenave
- Translation and the African novel : reading as re/membering / Lisa McNee
- Pt. II. Regional imperatives, thematic categories
- Rethinking the Arab African novel : a case for thematization / Zahr Said Stauffer
- Approaches to teaching the Maghrebian novel : allegory at the crossroads / Jarrod Hayes
- The novel, historiography, and the griot epic in the Sahel / Christopher Wise
- Approaches to teaching Islam in the West African novel / Shirin Edwin
- Unveiling the African legacy in Spanish : novels from Equatorial Guinea / Dosinda García-Alvite
- Teaching lusophone African fiction / Fernando Arenas
- The pleasures of the political : apartheid and postapartheid South African fiction / Louise Bethlehem
- Language, multiple worlds, and material culture in the teaching of African migrant fiction / Brenda Cooper
- East African fiction and globalization / Peter Kalliney
- Pt. III. Pedagogical and instructional contexts
- The African novel in a course on the twentieth-century novel in English / S. Shankar
- The francophone African novel in the French-language classroom / Mohamed Kamara
- Introducing African novels in a web-enhanced community college survey course / Cora Agatucci
- Between three African locations : teaching Chinua Achebe's 'Things fall apart' at the Universities of Ibadan, Zululand, and Cape Town / Harry Garuba
- The blank maps of difficult desires : sexuality and African literature in the classroom / Neville Hoad
- Confessions of a disinterested didact : teaching Nadine Gordimer's 'Burger's daughter' / R. Radhakrishnan
- Creating contested space through the "nervous conditions" of postcolonial theories / Kimberly Wedeven Segall
- Reading the popular : Onitsha Market romance and the practice of everyday life / Onookome Okome