The problem of environmental degradation on the African continent is a severe one. In this
book, Cajetan Iheka analyzes how African literary texts have engaged with pressing …

The African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of
philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent, from the early …

Literary histories are acts of synthesis, classification, evaluation, and ordering that are also
often heavily invested in both nostalgia and ideology. The main challenge of a literary …

Although the subject of much definitional debate, less attention has been paid to the Global
South as a framework for literary analysis. I argue that this relational and comparative …

This introduction to the special issue,'Marxism and African Literatures: New
Interventions,'argues for the continued relevance of Marxist approaches within African …

This article discusses Tejumola Olaniyan's submissions in his essay “African Literature in
the Post-Global Age: Provocations on Field Commonsense” by problematizing some of his …

This article demonstrates that Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani's novel I Do Not Come to You by
Chance dialogues with a multiplicity of texts and discourses at literary and popular registers …

In response to Olaniyan's article “African Literature in the Post-Global Age: Provocations on
Field Commonsense,” this paper suggests that Olaniyan's conception of the “planetary” …

Abstract “The gap,” Tejumola Olaniyan asserts in a 2009 article,“is the specter that haunts
performance… the force that determines the genres and languages of performance.… all …

Focusing on Chris Abani's The Secret History of Las Vegas (2014), this essay argues that
analysis of works that enlist the conventions of popular or genre fiction is crucial for …