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"Explores and interrogates the many and diverse perspectives of the new frontiers of African literary studies. Publication of the seminal volume African Literature Comes of Age, by C.D. Narasimhaiah (India) and Ernest N. Emenyonu (Nigeria), in 1988 generated the consciousness that African literature had attained maturity by the evolution of diverse concerns among scholars, critics, and researchers over the decades following the publication, in the English language, of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart in 1958. Since the publication of the first volume of African Literature Today (ALT) in the 1970s, the writings of Africans across the continent have spread across the globe, constituting refreshing and hitherto unimaginable epistemologies. This 40th volume provides a serious critical response to those changing horizons and reflects African literature's maturity, diversity, scope, spread, and above all, relevance. The topics discussed range from sickle cell disease to the animalization of humans, new feminisms and stereotypes of womanhood, the different shades of black masculinity, and political exploitation in creative works. Reaching across boundaries, recent fictions are seen to suggest a widening of conventional literary genres, and new forms that change the known trajectories of dramatic theatre. The substance, freshness, and vitality that characterize the articles in this volume of African Literature Today bring a welcome perspective to the continent's rich creative life."
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Editorial Article: African Literature Comes of Age -- Articles -- Of Literature and Medicine -- Post-humanism and Speciesism in African Literature -- Manifestations of Masculinities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Novels -- Transformative Female Narratives and New Visions in African Women's Writing -- Religion, Capitalism and Politics -- Approaching Gang Violence on the Cape Flats in Rehana Rossouw's What Will People Say? -- The Denunciation of Religious Collusion with Colonization in Devil on the Cross and Matigari -- The Weapons of Subjugation in Imbolo Mbue's How Beautiful We Were -- Abrogating Aesthetic Boundaries in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry -- The End of Robert Mugabe -- The Text and Textual Fields of African Popular Literature -- Literary Supplement -- Ezuga (Short Story) -- Four Poems -- Tributes -- Remembering Professor Charles R. Larson (14 January 1938-22 May 2021) -- The End of an Era -- Reviews -- Kasimma. All Shades of Iberibe -- Ikechukwu Otuu Egbuta and Nnenna Vivien Chukwu (eds), World on the Brinks: An Anthology of Covid-19 Pandemic -- Evelyn N. Urama (ed), The Writer in the Mirror: Conversations with Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 'Zikora: A Short Story' -- Isidore Diala (ed), Obumselu on African Literature: The Intellectual Muse -- Imbolo Mbue, Behold the Dreamers -- Tijan M. Sallah, Saani Baat: Aspects of African Literature and Culture