Teaching the African novel /
Teaching the African novel /
edited by Gaurav Desai.
- New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2009.
- ix, 427 pages ; 24 cm.
- Modern Language Association of America options for teaching ; 24 .
- Options for teaching ; 24. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : teaching the African novel / African novels and the question of theory / Marxist approaches to the African novel / Why history matters in the African novel / Political critique and resistance in African fiction / Women writers and gender in the sub-Saharan novel / Translation and the African novel : reading as re/membering / Rethinking the Arab African novel : a case for thematization / Approaches to teaching the Maghrebian novel : allegory at the crossroads / The novel, historiography, and the griot epic in the Sahel / Approaches to teaching Islam in the West African novel / Unveiling the African legacy in Spanish : novels from Equatorial Guinea / Teaching lusophone African fiction / The pleasures of the political : apartheid and postapartheid South African fiction / Language, multiple worlds, and material culture in the teaching of African migrant fiction / East African fiction and globalization / The African novel in a course on the twentieth-century novel in English / The Francophone African novel in the French-language classroom / Introducing African novels in a Web-enhanced community college survey course / Between three African locations : teaching Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart at the universities of Ibadan, Zululand, and Cape Town / The blank maps of difficult desires : sexuality and African literature in the classroom / Confessions of a disinterested didact : teaching Nadine Gordimer's Burger's daughter / Creating contested space through the "nervous conditions" of postcolonial theories / Reading the popular : Onitsha Market romance and the practice of everyday life / Gaurav Desai -- Olakunle George -- Nicholas Brown -- Eleni Coundouriotis -- Tejumola Olaniyan -- Odile Cazenave -- Lisa McNee -- Zahr Said Stauffer -- Jarrod Hayes -- Christopher Wise -- Shirin Edwin -- Dosinda Garc�ia-Alvite -- Fernando Arenas -- Louise Bethlehem -- Brenda Cooper -- Peter Kalliney -- S. Shankar -- Mohamed Kamara -- Cora Agatucci -- Harry Garuba -- Neville Hoad -- R. Radhakrishnan -- Kimberly Wedeven Segall -- Onookome Okome.
9781603290371 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1603290370 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781603290388 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1603290389 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2009017792
African fiction--Study and teaching.
African fiction (English)--Study and teaching.
Africa--In literature.
PL 8010.6 / .T43 2009
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : teaching the African novel / African novels and the question of theory / Marxist approaches to the African novel / Why history matters in the African novel / Political critique and resistance in African fiction / Women writers and gender in the sub-Saharan novel / Translation and the African novel : reading as re/membering / Rethinking the Arab African novel : a case for thematization / Approaches to teaching the Maghrebian novel : allegory at the crossroads / The novel, historiography, and the griot epic in the Sahel / Approaches to teaching Islam in the West African novel / Unveiling the African legacy in Spanish : novels from Equatorial Guinea / Teaching lusophone African fiction / The pleasures of the political : apartheid and postapartheid South African fiction / Language, multiple worlds, and material culture in the teaching of African migrant fiction / East African fiction and globalization / The African novel in a course on the twentieth-century novel in English / The Francophone African novel in the French-language classroom / Introducing African novels in a Web-enhanced community college survey course / Between three African locations : teaching Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart at the universities of Ibadan, Zululand, and Cape Town / The blank maps of difficult desires : sexuality and African literature in the classroom / Confessions of a disinterested didact : teaching Nadine Gordimer's Burger's daughter / Creating contested space through the "nervous conditions" of postcolonial theories / Reading the popular : Onitsha Market romance and the practice of everyday life / Gaurav Desai -- Olakunle George -- Nicholas Brown -- Eleni Coundouriotis -- Tejumola Olaniyan -- Odile Cazenave -- Lisa McNee -- Zahr Said Stauffer -- Jarrod Hayes -- Christopher Wise -- Shirin Edwin -- Dosinda Garc�ia-Alvite -- Fernando Arenas -- Louise Bethlehem -- Brenda Cooper -- Peter Kalliney -- S. Shankar -- Mohamed Kamara -- Cora Agatucci -- Harry Garuba -- Neville Hoad -- R. Radhakrishnan -- Kimberly Wedeven Segall -- Onookome Okome.
9781603290371 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1603290370 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781603290388 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1603290389 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2009017792
African fiction--Study and teaching.
African fiction (English)--Study and teaching.
Africa--In literature.
PL 8010.6 / .T43 2009