This article considers the intersection of ethics, responsibility, and literature through
readings of Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love and Dave Eggers' What Is the What …

This book investigates the many ways in which contemporary African fiction has reflected on
themes of responsibility and complicity during the postcolonial period. Covering the authors …

Twitchell's essay examines Dave Eggers's What Is the What (2006) in the context of recent
international interest in the morality of uncertainty, a stance which looks to self-erasure, not …

Framed by the critical thinking of Achille Mbembe, this article traces how two recent thrillers
from Southern Africa, Zambian Grieve Sibale's 1998 Murder in the Forest and South African …

Abstract Setting itself within the ongoing debate surrounding the political and aesthetic
commitments of the author's work, this essay provides an alternative to broadly political …

Using a question posed by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as a launching point, this essay
asks whether speculative fiction has value to African and African diasporic Literature, and …

It is 1994. South Africa, which has been under the iron grip of grand apartheid, is having its
first democratic elections. JM Coetzee, arguably the country's most prominent writer …

The focus of this article is on a discernible trend in contemporary African writing, wherein the
fiction by mainly (though not exclusively) diasporic African women authors either explicitly or …

Over the past fifty years, debates about human rights have assumed an increasingly
prominent place in postcolonial literature and theory. Writers from Salman Rushdie to Nawal …

This essay intervenes in debates surrounding trauma theory and postcolonial studies,
tracing how forms of African animism can lead to a decolonized discourse of trauma. Taking …