Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
CONTENTS
Notes on editors and contributors
PART I Background
	1	Introduction
	2	The theory and aesthetics of minority discourses in African literature
PART II Political and racial forms of marginalization
	3	Amazigh/Berber literature and “literary space”: a contested minority situation in (North) African literatures
	4	Negotiating the global literary market: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short fiction
	5	Anglophone Cameroon literature: writing from the margins of the margin
	6	Niger Delta and its minority condition in Nigerian writing
	7	Jola verbal arts of Casamance, Senegal, and The Gambia: a question in search of a literature
PART III Culture and language
	8	Negating hegemony: linguistic and rhetorical formations as discursive praxis of resistance in Yulisa Amadu Maddy’s Obasai and Other Plays
	9	Of pidgin, Nigerian Pidgin poetry, and minority discourses: the pidgin poems of Ezenwa-Ohaeto
	11	Swahili literature as a minority discourse in African literatures
	10	Three moments of minor Afrikaans literary expression
	12	Becoming-minoritarian: constructions of coloured identities in creative writing projects at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
PART IV Patriarchal domination, gender, sexuality, and other sociocultural “minorities”
	13	A reflection on gender and sexuality as transnational archive of African modernity
	14	“Who do you think you are, woman?” Wangari Maathai answers the patriarchal state in Unbowed
	15	Representation of women in udje, an Urhobo men’s-only oral poetic performance genre
	16	Voices from the margin: female protagonists navigating power geometries
	17	Responding from the fringe: women, Islam, and patriarchy in Nigerian Muslim women’s novels
PART V Intranational, national, and international marginalization/conflict
	18	The odds against Eritrean literature
	19	Minority discourses and the construction of illicit versions of Zimbabwean nation-ness in Ndebele fiction in English
	20	The muse of history and the literature of the Nigeria-Biafra War
PART VI Literature and disability
	21	Children with disabilities as negotiators of social responsibility: a critical study of ‘redemption’ in Meshack Asare’s Sosu’s Call
	22	Beyond ‘harmless lunacy’: African women writers (w)riting madness
	23	Mental health, minority discourse and Tanure Ojaide’s short stories
PART VII Recent trends of marginalities: timely and timeless
	24	Not yet season of blossom: writing Northern Nigeria into the global space
	25	Afropolitan literature as a minority discourse in contemporary African literature
	26	Tanella Boni’s Matins de couvre-feu: environmentalism and ecocriticism in African literature
	27	Futuristic themes and science fiction in modern African literature
	28	Writing the self: Indian women writers from South Africa
Postscript
Index