Teaching the African novel / edited by Gaurav Desai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Desai, Gaurav Gajanan, editor.

Series:

Options for teaching ; 24.

Options for teaching

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African fiction--Study and teaching.

African fiction.

African fiction (English)--Study and teaching.

African fiction (English).

Africa--In literature.

Africa.

Physical Description:

ix, 427 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2009.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781603290371

1603290370

9781603290388

1603290389

OCLC:

320352470