TY - BOOK AU - Desai,Gaurav Gajanan TI - Teaching the African novel T2 - Modern Language Association of America options for teaching SN - 9781603290371 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - PL 8010.6 .T43 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Modern Language Association of America KW - African fiction KW - Study and teaching KW - African fiction (English) KW - Africa KW - In literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : teaching the African novel; Gaurav Desai --; 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 --; 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 Garc�ia-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 --; 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 ER -