Matatu - Journal for African Culture and Society

Acknowledgements and Notice
pp. vii-vii(1)

Postcolonialism, Gender, and Modernity African Literatures and the Agendas of Theory at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century
pp. ix-xvi(1)
Authors: Klein, Tobias Robert; Auga, Ulrike; Prüschenk, Viola

African Literature and Modernity
pp. 3-19(17)
Author: Gikandi, Simon

African Literature and the Micropolitics of Modernity: Explorations of Post-Traditional Society in Wole Soyinka's Season of Anomy, Nuruddin Farah's Sardines and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
pp. 21-35(15)
Author: Schulze-Engler, Frank

Kojo Laing and the Cultural Specifics of an African Modernity
pp. 37-57(21)
Author: Klein, Tobias Robert

Romantic and African Notions of Poetic Language: Shelley and Okot p'Bitek
pp. 59-67(9)
Author: Opali, Fred

Toward the Decolonization of African Postcolonial Theory: The Example of Kwame Appiah's In My Father's House vis-à-vis Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy, Helon Habila's Waiting for an Angel, and Ike Oguine's A Squatter's Tale
pp. 71-92(22)
Author: Osei-Nyame, Kwadwo

The River, the Earth, and the Spirit World: Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, and the Novel in Africa
pp. 93-109(17)
Author: Nwosu, Maik

Postcoloniality, African Poetry, and Counter-Discourse
pp. 111-131(21)
Author: Okunoye, Oyeniyi

Looking at the Local/Locale: A Postcolonial Reading of Lewis Nkosi's Mating Birds (1986)
pp. 133-149(17)
Author: Stiebel, Lindy

African Literature, African Literatures: Cultural Practice or Art Practice?
pp. 153-164(12)
Author: Chapman, Michael

Theorizing African Feminism(s): The 'Colonial' Question
pp. 165-174(10)
Author: Mekgwe, Pinkie

The Multilayered Construction of Identity in Alexander Kanengoni's Echoing Silences and Farida Karodia's "The Red Velvet Dress"
pp. 175-190(16)
Author: Berndt, Katrin

Intellectuals Between Resistance and Legitimation: The Cases of Nadine Gordimer and Christa Wolf
pp. 191-212(22)
Author: Auga, Ulrike