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Du Plessis, J. W., and D. H. Steenberg. "Uit die oogpunt van ’n vrou? Perspektief op feministiese literêre kritiek in die kader van die Airikaanse prosa." Literator 12, no. 3 (1991): 71–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v12i3.781.

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Feminists feel that in literary criticism not enough consideration is given to feminism as an ideology in the production of texts. According to them, existing literary criticism is strongly man-centred. This is especially true of the practice of South African literary criticism. Although feminism does not have at its disposal a formulated feminist literary criticism, a great deal of research has been done in this direction abroad. This is especially the case in Europe and America. Feminist literary critics apply themselves to the representation of the woman in works by male authors and an anal

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Kruger, Liam. "Literary Value and the Prizewinning African Novel." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 58, no. 1 (2025): 79–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-11679322.

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Abstract What are the values implied by the 2021 boom in prizewinning African literature, and what are its implications for literary criticism? This essay considers three prizewinning African novelists—Damon Galgut, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Tsitsi Dangarembga—and their popular and scholarly receptions to ascertain what is being valued in these authors when they are awarded the Booker, Nobel, and PEN Pinter Prize, respectively. The article compares this evaluative and interpretive state of affairs to an earlier moment in postcolonial studies in an effort to raise the question of what the task of

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Esonwanne, Uzoma. "“Yes, but . . .” : On Reforming African Literary Scholarship." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 4, no. 2 (2017): 265–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2017.4.

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Abstract“Yes, but . . .” subscribes fully to the arguments on the basis of which Tejumola Olaniyan refutes the often unspoken axioms such as the “corporeal” test by which what counts as genuinely “African” in African literary scholarship is determined. In those arguments, which appear in “African Literature in the Post-Global Age: Provocations on Field Commonsense” (PLI 3.3 [2016]: 387–96), he outlines very explicitly the views about the objects of study, methodologies, and critical theories that have implicitly guided the most powerful scholarship on African literature at least since the 1990

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Reid, Katie. "MIGRATION AND TRANSFORMATION IN RECENT AFRICAN LITERARY CRITICISM." Africa 82, no. 2 (2012): 312–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972012000071.

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Krishnan, Madhu. "Materials, Structures and African Literary Criticism: A Response." Cambridge Quarterly 49, no. 3 (2020): 295–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfaa017.

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Panova, Olga. "Phillis Wheatley in American Literary History and African American Literary Criticism." Literature of the Americas, no. 4 (2018): 8–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2018-4-8-40.

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Martin, Reginald. "Current Thought in African-American Literary Criticism: An Introduction." College English 52, no. 7 (1990): 727. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/377628.

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Dubey, Madhu, and Joyce Ann Joyce. "Warriors, Conjurers and Priests: Defining African-Centered Literary Criticism." African American Review 30, no. 3 (1996): 464. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3042539.

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Miller, Elise. "Mourning and Melancholy: Literary Criticism by African American Women." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 35, no. 2 (2016): 463–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2016.0034.

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Nazareth, Peter, and Joyce Ann Joyce. "Warriors, Conjurers and Priests: Defining African-Centered Literary Criticism." World Literature Today 69, no. 4 (1995): 802. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40151692.

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Robert, Lynn. "Book Review - Decolonising the Mind by Ngugi wa Thiong'o – Africa, A New Perspective." International Journal of Academic Research in Business, Arts & Science (IJARBAS) ® 5, no. 9 (2023): 1–9. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8365008.

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<strong>Abstract</strong>: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's groundbreaking work, "Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature," challenges the dominant Eurocentric and American-centric narratives that have long overshadowed African voices and experiences. The essence of Thiong'o's book is shedding light on his impassioned call to decolonize African history, dismantle harmful stereotypes, and usher in a new perspective on the continent. "Decolonizing the Mind" is a potent call to action, urging readers to engage in the collective effort to libera

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Łobodziec, Agnieszka. "Intersections of African-American Womanist Literary Approaches and Paradigms of Ethical Literary Criticism." Interlitteraria 22, no. 2 (2018): 297. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2017.22.2.8.

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Although black American womanist literary perspectives and ethical literary criticism theory emerged from different socio-cultural contexts, a number of intersections between the two can be discerned. One of the objectives of this paper is to analyze the reasons for which some Chinese scholars and African-American women literary theoreticians are skeptical of mainstream Western literary criticism schools, which they view as insufficient for exploring works of literature derived from fusions of non-Western and Western cultural contexts. Secondly, the paper elucidates the particular value system

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Montle, Malesela Eddie. "Scrutinising Eurocentric stereotypes against Afrocentric underpinnings of beauty through Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut." Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies 11, no. 1 (2022): 34–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/rainbow.v11i1.53318.

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This paper has probed into stereotypical attitudes towards Afrocentric underpinnings of beauty through Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut. The genesis of these stereotypes against African beauty could be traced from the colonisation of the African continent. It is the interface between Africa and the West that engendered a shift of identities, which resulted in many Afrocentric depictions assimilated d by Western influence. Despite the decolonisation attempts, the Eurocentric notions that had defined Africa during the colonial period persist in galvanising stereotypes that marginalise Africans, especiall

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Sanders, Leslie. "THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION: SOME RECENT AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERARY CRITICISM." Canadian Review of American Studies 21, no. 2 (1990): 247–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cras-021-02-10.

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Kumalo, Siseko H. "Distinguishing between ontology and ‘decolonisation as praxis’." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 58, no. 1 (2021): 162–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tl.v58i1.10361.

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In this review article I closely read the recently published book African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon (2020), edited by Aretha Phiri. I suggest two ways of reading the text. The first levels a critique at some of the conflations we find in the text and the second showcases the useful takeaways that the reader gleans from the book. These takeaways are not—themselves—without criticisms, however. Such criticism is generative in that it shores up the work that still remains to be addressed by those working in the decolonial tradition, both here at home (i.e., in

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Cliff, Neil. "A Zoocritical Reading of Mungo Park’s Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (1799)." Humanities 14, no. 2 (2025): 22. https://doi.org/10.3390/h14020022.

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Thinking about how animals are categorised in Mungo Park’s journey into the interior of Africa provides a deeper understanding of their significance in the early exploration experiences of Africa by Europeans during this era. As it stands, there certainly exists a small but growing body of animal criticism in literary studies, and what can be suitably described as the animal turn is certainly gaining momentum more broadly within twenty-first century literary criticism and debate. However, there has been scant scholarly research on this theme of animals within eighteenth-century travelling prac

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Foley, Barbara. "On the Andrew J. Kappel Prize Essay." Twentieth Century Literature 69, no. 3 (2023): 241–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0041462x-10814787.

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The winner of this year’s prize is Conrad Steel’s “Standard Forms: Modernism, Market Research, and ‘Howl.’” The judge is Barbara Foley, Emerita Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. Foley’s chief scholarly and political interests are in the fields of African American literature, US literary radicalism, and Marxist literary criticism. Her most recent book is Marxist Literary Criticism Today (2019). She is past president of the Radical Caucus of the Modern Language Association and currently serves on the editorial board and manuscript collective of Science & Societ

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SMITH, AYANA. "Blues, criticism, and the signifying trickster." Popular Music 24, no. 2 (2005): 179–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143005000449.

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Scholars in the field of literary theory have defined clearly the role of signifying in African-American literature. This article identifies one aspect of the signifying tradition and its influence on the early blues tradition. Since the Signifying Monkey is the ultimate trickster in the African-American narrative tradition, this article presents evidence for considering the blues singer as a trickster figure at several different levels. First, the singer identifies with the trickster's character traits through pseudo-autobiographical content in song narratives, particularly in expressing soci

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Nwaozuzu, Uche-Chinemere, and Cindy Anene Ezeugwu. "Early Eurocentric Criticism of Achebe and Postcolonial Realities in Africa." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 8, no. 3 (2019): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.8n.3p.19.

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Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart has attracted a glut of global opinions on the nature and character of the work. This is to be expected as any good work of literature will elicit much scholarly criticism. Thus, this paper looks at the early Eurocentric criticism of Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart. The study leans on bio-bibliographical approach to literary criticism. It tries to situate their conclusions within the realities of the postcolonial environment of most African societies and reaches the conclusion that features of culture clash and social dislocation which these critics misinterp

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Martin, Andrew. "A Bibliography of Biographical and Critical Works on Olive Schreiner by South African Academics and Researchers, 1994–2019." English in Africa 47, no. 2 (2021): 119–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v47i2.7.

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This selected bibliography consists of recent published biographical works on Olive Schreiner, literary criticism and multi-disciplinary studies of her writings by South African writers and critics from 1994 until 2019. A few works by foreign writers in South African book publications and literary journals have also been included. This bibliography has been drawn from the collection of the Amazwi South African Museum of Literature in Makhanda. It is hoped that this bibliography will promote interest in Olive Schreiner’s life and work. Keywords: Olive Schreiner, bibliographies

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ELBECHIR, Yaqot, and Naimi AMARA. "The African Literary Text ‘The Lion and the Jewel’ by Wole Soyinka From Feminist Perspectives." Journal of Languages and Translation 5, no. 1 (2025): 218–26. https://doi.org/10.70204/jlt.v5i1.443.

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The portrayal of women in African literature continues to be a subject of active attention in the field of literary criticism. This paper aims to analyse the representation of African women in The Lion and The Jewel by Wole Soyinka. The study adopts a feminist criticism approach to explore the increasingly gender-sensitive perspective depicted in this literary work. The primary objective is to highlight the inaccurate depiction of women in male writing and how they are striving to draw images of women and their agency in society. Findings showed the gap between genders by presenting them as un

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Spangenberg, Izak (Sakkie) J. J. "Reading the Bible in post-apartheid South Africa: The contribution of Gerrie Snyman." Old Testament Essays 36, no. 1 (2023): 14–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2023/v36n1a3.

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Modern historical criticism came to South Africa in the third decade of the twentieth century. However, analysing biblical books like human documents was not acceptable to church authorities. The historical-critical study of the Bible thus suffered a blow. It took four decades before some reformed biblical scholars felt at ease to reintroduce historical criticism. However, during the seventh decade of the twentieth century, overseas biblical scholars were already experimenting with the research tools of modern literary studies. Some South African biblical scholars followed suit, and soon narra

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Gray, Rosemary. "The Music under the Stone: A Reading of Alex La Guma’s The Stone Country." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 23, no. 2 (2001): 47–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/1248v.

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This paper recognizes the critical divide occasioned by Alex La Guma’s The Stone Country, providing examples of theoretical positioning from the Formalist and Marxist schools, respectively. In a re-reading of the text, motivated by the author’s own metapoetic stance, it argues for the opening up of new ground in the study of South African literary sociology and proffers ‘psycho-history’ as an additional – even newer – critical tool to set alongside conventional textual analysis and literary criticism, in an attempt to explain the significance of ‘the music under the stone’ of imprisonment in a

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Warren, Kenneth W. "Back to Black: African American Literary Criticism in the Present Moment." American Literary History 34, no. 1 (2022): 369–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajab082.

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Abstract For more than a century, scholars of Black literature have sought to align a critical project focused on identifying and celebrating Black distinctiveness with a social project aimed at redressing racial inequality. This commitment to Black distinctiveness announces itself as a project on behalf of “the race” as a whole, but has always been, and remains, a project and politics guided in the first instance by the needs and outlook of the Black professional classes. Over the first half of the twentieth century, this cultural project achieved some real successes: politically, it helped d

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Moore‐Gilbert, Bart. "Plotting the South African colonial unconscious: Subaltern Studies and literary criticism." African Identities 1, no. 1 (2003): 37–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472584032000127860.

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Chapman, Michael. "The Case of Coetzee: South African Literary Criticism, 1990 to Today." Journal of Literary Studies 26, no. 2 (2010): 103–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564711003683584.

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Hassan, Salah M. "Contemporary African Art as a Paradox." Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 2020, no. 46 (2020): 8–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10757163-8308138.

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The field of contemporary African and African diaspora art and culture is currently riddled by two paradoxes. First, in Africa and its diaspora, we are witnessing a burgeoning of creative energy and an increasing visibility of artists in the international arts arena. Yet, this energy and visibility has not been matched by a parallel regime of art criticism that lives up to the levels of their work. Second, we find a rising interest in exhibiting and collecting works by contemporary African and diaspora artists among Western museums as well as private and public collections. This growing intere

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Ohia, Ben-Fred. "African Literature and The Protest Novel: Neo-Nationalism in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not Child." British Journal of Multidisciplinary and Advanced Studies 4, no. 6 (2023): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/bjmas.2022.0343.

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Every literary writer belongs to a particular society; he writes to reflect the conditions of that society. Therefore, African literature captures the African temperament. This paper attempts an analysis of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not Child. Colonisation turns people into objects in order for the colonialists to facilitate their manipulation and the handing over power to Africans with a hope that this group of Africans will change the cause of events. The inability of these leaders to perform to expectation leading to a period of transition from colonialism to neo-colonialism necessitated the

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Dadja-Tiou, Panaewazibiou. "The Quest for the Survival of African Culture and Tradition: A Structuralist Reading of Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments." East African Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 5, no. 1 (2022): 182–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajis.5.1.836.

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Using reader-response literary criticism and structuralism, this paper has evaluated and examined the necessity of preserving and revitalising African culture and tradition. It has also shown the intrinsic relation between the ancestors and the living people as featured by Ayi Kwei Armah in Fragments. Ancestors are revered and worshipped because of their importance in the lives of African people. Ancestors protect people who are still living and they also punish people who disobey the norms of society. The study revealed that western culture and the excessive love of materialism threaten Afric

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Akpome, Aghogho. "Imagining Africa’s futures in two Caine Prize-winning stories: Henrietta Rose-Innes’s “Poison” and NoViolet Bulawayo’s “Hitting Budapest”." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 55, no. 1 (2018): 96–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989418777840.

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Since its launch in 1999, the annual Caine Prize for African short stories has assumed a dominant position on the continent’s literary landscape. It has been hailed for the exposure it provides for its winners who are mostly budding writers. Expectedly, it has also attracted stinging criticism, especially for what is perceived to be its legitimization of stereotypical narratives about Africa. In this article, I examine how the two winning entries of 2008 and 2011 represent contemporary African realities and in so doing reinforce the growing significance of the prize and the short story genre t

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Dhruti Raval. "Interpreting Post colonialism in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." Creative Launcher 4, no. 3 (2019): 40–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2019.4.3.05.

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Postcolonial theory and criticism started to gain prominence from the last two decades. It consists of the study of literature which has been formerly colonised by the imperial masters. It includes the new literatures which got affected by the colonial process. The new literatures named as “Commonwealth literature” covers the literature from the Latin America, South Asia and Africa respectively. The African Literature had the most adverse effects of the colonisation process. As a result, the natives cannot forget their painful historical past. The writers of the African literature have embedde

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Ahlijah, Judith Candace, та Benjamin Kubi. "The Portrayal of Gender in Kofi Nyaku’s Amedzro Etɔ̃lia: A Feminist Approach". Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Studies 5, № 12 (2023): 31–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/jhsss.2023.5.12.4.

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Literature is usually reflective of the ideologies and general worldviews of the societies from which it originates. Among the critical issues that are raised in many literary works are issues pertaining to gender and power relations. Some literary works originating from the African context have served as fertile grounds for gender stereotyping and its attendant asymmetric power distribution. In spite of the abundance of such literary works, those written in colonial languages tend to receive more scholarly attention than those written in indigenous African languages. The present study is a fe

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Gustian, Rizki Puji. "An Autobiography but Not Quite: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman as a Parody." Journal of Language and Literature 25, no. 1 (2025): 169–81. https://doi.org/10.24071/joll.v25i1.10552.

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This article examines Ernest J. Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1972) as a parody and critique of dominant cultural narratives. Combining close reading with biographical criticism, which contextualizes the novel through Gaines’ socio-cultural background as an African American author. Drawing on Bakhtin’s and Hannoosh’s theories of parody and Gates’ concept of chiasmus, the analysis explores how the novel imitates, transforms, and subverts its targets. Bhabha’s notion of mimicry situates parody within postcolonial discourse, while Genette’s theory of frequency analyzes the novel

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Anasiudu, Okwudiri. "Unveiling Melodies: Navigating Issues in African Oral Literature through Nkem Okoh's Preface to Oral Literature." Journal of Language and Literature Studies 4, no. 1 (2024): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.36312/jolls.v4i1.1705.

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The oral literature in Africa has not been taken seriously. The implication is that assertion is a fear of its death as many scholars in Africa have given it less attention. To address the gap and deepen the conversation, this study explored Nkem Okoh's Preface to Oral Literature shedding light on its perspective on the ongoing discussions about oral literature in Africa. The goal is to offer a detailed understanding and assessment of African oral literature, using this text as a case study. The analysis relies on postcolonial criticism and a qualitative research approach. Two key questions gu

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Edwin, Shirin. "Racing Away from Race: The Literary Aesthetics of Islam and Gender in Mohammed Naseehu Ali’s The Prophet of Zongo Street and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s The Whispering Trees." Islamic Africa 7, no. 2 (2016): 133–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21540993-00702010.

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Some literary discussions on Islam in West Africa argue that African Muslims owe allegiance more to Arab race and culture since the religion has an Arab origin while owing less to indigenous and therefore “authentic” African cultures. Most notably, in his famous quarrel with Ali Mazrui, the Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka wrenches race to serve a tendentious historicism about African Muslims as racially Arab and therefore foreign to African culture. In their fiction, two new West African writers, Mohammed Naseehu Ali and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, allegorize African Islamic identity as tied to Arab ra

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Prajapati, Dr Ram Avadh. "Reclaiming the Natural World: Ecological Unconscious and Anti-Colonial Counter-Discourse in Early African Literature." Voice of Creative Research 7, no. 1 (2025): 229–39. https://doi.org/10.53032/tvcr/2025.v7n1.26.

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This paper argues that African cultural context is fundamentally grounded in ecological materiality—both spiritual and non-spiritual. It critiques how the notion of “culture” in literary criticism has often obscured the ecological dimensions that underpin African worldviews. By unveiling this ecological substrate, the study repositions nonhuman entities as active participants in traditional African life and in the counter-discursive strategies deployed by early African writers. Previous critical interpretations have treated ecological elements as mere background to cultural practices; this pap

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Lindfors, Bernth. "African literature criticism and the post‐colonial curriculum." Journal of Literary Studies 16, no. 3-4 (2000): 5–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564710008530263.

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Jingyuan, Yu. "African anglophone literature in China: translation and research." Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation 4 (June 2025): 30–71. https://doi.org/10.1017/abd.2024.22.

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AbstractAfrica is known for its rich and diverse literary tradition, with English being a prominent language in many African countries. The study of African anglophone literature in China has gained momentum in recent years, as scholars and readers increasingly recognize its importance and value. This article aims to provide an overview of translation and research on African anglophone literature in China. It discusses the works of representative writers such as Damon Galgut, Chinua Achebe, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, examining the reception and influence of their works in China, exploring how Chin

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Mata, Inocência. "Estudos literários africanos e literatura-mundo: reflexão sobre a epistemologia da crítica literária." Revista Brasileira de História 43, no. 93 (2023): 43–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1806-93472023v43n93-04.

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RESUMO Parece hoje incontornável, no campo dos estudos literários, a discussão sobre a ampliação do cânone. A consciência da diversidade do mundo impõe que se considerem outros paradigmas que deem conta da multiplicidade das tradições literárias de geografias culturais (semi)periféricas. Impõe-se, com efeito, uma nova perspectiva epistemológica em que é possível pensar a literatura a partir das suas densas relações, para além de binarismos redutores. Um dos instrumentos é facultado pela categoria literatura-mundo, propulsora de uma mudança epistemológica que permite pensar as produções cultura

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Prahlad, Sw Anand. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Folklore, Folkloristics, and African American Literary Criticism." African American Review 33, no. 4 (1999): 565. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2901337.

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Adams, Anne. "Claiming Her Authority From Life: Twenty Years of African Women's Literary Criticism." Matatu 10, no. 1 (1993): 155–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-90000015.

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Budick, Emily Miller. "Some Thoughts on the Mutual Displacements/Appropriations/Accommodations of Culture in Several Fictions by Toni Morrison, Cynthia Ozick, and Grace Paley." Prospects 20 (October 1995): 387–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300006128.

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InPlaying in the Dark, Toni Morrison sets out to chart a new “geography” in literary criticism, to provide a “map” for locating what she calls the “Africanist” presence in the American literary tradition. The assumption of Americanist critics, she argues, has been that “traditional, canonical American literature is free of, uninformed, and unshaped by the fourhundred-year-old presence of, first, Africans and then, African Americans in the United States. It assumes that this presence — which shaped the body politic, the Constitution, and the entire history of the culture — has had no significan

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Ogundokun, Sikiru Adeyemi. "Literature and Sustainable Ecosystem: An Investigation of Selected African Literary Texts." Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 25, no. 1 (2022): 33–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.5782/2223-2621.2022.25.1.33.

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The fact that African literary works have gained considerable patronage in scholarly writings and debates. Most previous studies concern themselves with writers’ styles and themes whereas inadequate attention has been paid to the ecological functionality of the texts. This study, therefore, interrogates the issue of climate change and its effects on human race around the world. Adopting eco-criticism as theoretical framework, a close reading of five purposively selected African literary texts was carried out, with content analysis applied as our methodology. The study reveals that there is a b

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Al-Khafaji, Ammar Shamil Kadhim. "Patriarchy, and Colonialism in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa : A Feminist Approach." Tasnim International Journal for Human, Social and Legal Sciences 3, no. 1 (2024): 562–71. https://doi.org/10.56924/tasnim.8.2024/29.

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The research investigates in detail the fascinating story of its title character, which may work as an allegory for Africa itself in its past. Ama Ata Aidoo is miscellaneous writers who wrote in different literary genre like drama, short stories novel and, poetry and criticism. She is also an active feminist. Aidoo is against the colonial practice and its influence on African minds. Aidoo's play Anowa confronts painful issues in Africa's past, mostly those of the slave trade. She goes further to tackle issues of patriarchal domination and African feminism, like the relationships between indivi

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Mbewe, Ian. "Application of Political Satire in Mission to Kala and Devil on The Cross." Journal of Law and Social Sciences 5, no. 1 (2022): 69–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.53974/unza.jlss.5.1.793.

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The study attempted to demonstrate how political satire is applied in a pre-independence African fiction Mission to Kala and a post- independence African fiction Devil on the Cross. Satire, mild or bitter, has a history of being used to expose the negative socio-economic and political realities perpetrated by both the sympathisers of colonialism and later the agents of neo-colonialism in the post-independence phase. The study employed the Marxist literary theory and Literary Onomastics through stylistic analysis and demonstrated how satire exposed the evils and how a ‘training camp’ in the col

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So, Richard Jean, and Edwin Roland. "Race and Distant Reading." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 135, no. 1 (2020): 59–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2020.135.1.59.

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This essay brings together two methods of cultural‐literary analysis that have yet to be fully integrated: distant reading and the critique of race and racial difference. It constructs a reflexive and critical version of distant reading—one attuned to the arguments and methods of critical race studies—while still providing data‐driven insights useful to the writing of literary history and criticism, especially to the history and criticism of postwar African American fiction, in particular James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. Because race is socially constructed, it poses unique challenges for a co

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Slaymaker, William. "Ecoing the Other(s): The Call of Global Green and Black African Responses." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 116, no. 1 (2001): 129–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2001.116.1.129.

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Global production of literature and criticism about the environment has increased dramatically in the past decade, but black African writers and critics have not participated fully in this new approach. Literary green globalism, broadcast from metropolitan centers East and West, has inspired suspicion among some black African anglophone writers, while gaining acceptance among others, who with their Euro-American counterparts have begun to examine the relations of humanity and nature in sub-Saharan environments.

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Slaymaker, William. "Ecoing the Other(s): The Call of Global Green and Black African Responses." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 116, no. 1 (2001): 129–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812900105085.

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Global production of literature and criticism about the environment has increased dramatically in the past decade, but black African writers and critics have not participated fully in this new approach. Literary green globalism, broadcast from metropolitan centers East and West, has inspired suspicion among some black African anglophone writers, while gaining acceptance among others, who with their Euro-American counterparts have begun to examine the relations of humanity and nature in sub-Saharan environments.

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Girard, Melissa. "J. Saunders Redding and the “Surrender” of African American Women's Poetry." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 132, no. 2 (2017): 281–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2017.132.2.281.

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J. Saunders Redding's To Make a Poet Black (1939) changed the way African American poetry would be read and valued. In an effort to articulate an African American modernism, Redding rewrote the recent history of the New Negro Renaissance, validating and skewing its literary production. The standards and values that Redding used helped to advance the reputations of Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer but also led to discrimination against femininity and its associated poetic forms. By incorporating the gendered matrix of the New Criticism into African American literary studies, he he

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Anih, Uchenna Bethrand. "Une redéfinition du féminisme africain dans Femme nue, femme noire de Calixthe Beyala, romancière à contre-courant." International Journal of Francophone Studies 26, no. 1 (2023): 75–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijfs_00056_5.

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This article examines the issues of literary impudence and homosexuality so much repudiated by African feminist theorists in Calixthe Beyala’s erotic novel, Femme nue, femme noire. It reflects on the pertinence of using African feminist ideologies in the criticism of Beyala’s fictions considering the fact her novelistic themes run contrary to the African feminist postulation where homosexuality, sex work and other transgressive tendencies constitute a strange and imported phenomenon. This article analyses the radicalization of African feminism through a close reading of Calixthe Beyala’s Femme

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