Table of Contents
Part I: Background 1. Introduction 2. The Theory and Aesthetics of Minority Discourses in African Literature Part II: Political and Racial Forms of Marginalization 3. Amazigh/Berber literature and “literary space”: a contested minority situation in (North) African literatures 4. Negotiating the global literary market: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short fiction 5. Anglophone Cameroon Literature: Writing from the Margins of the Margin 6. Niger Delta and its Minority Condition in Nigerian Writing 7. Jola Verbal Arts of Cassamance, Senegal and The Gambia: A Question in Search of a Literature Part III: Culture and Language 8. Negating hegemony: linguistic and rhetorical formations as discursive praxis of resistance in Yulisa Amadu Maddy’s Obasai and Other Plays 9. Of Pidgin, Nigerian Pidgin Poetry, and Minority Discourses: The Pidgin Poems of Ezenwa-Ohaeto 10. Three Moments of Minor Afrikaans Expression 11. Swahili Literature as Minority Discourse in African Literatures 12. Becoming-minoritarian: constructions of coloured identities in creative writing projects at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa Part IV: Patriarchal Domination, Gender, Sexuality and Other Sociocultural "Minorities" 13. A Reflection on Gender and Sexuality as Transnational Archive of African Modernity
14. 'Who Do You Think You Are, Woman?': Wangari Maathai Answers the Patriarchal State in Unbowed 15. Representation of Women in Udje, an Urhobo Men's-Only Oral Poetic Performance Genre 16. Voices from the margin: female protagonists navigating power geometries 17. Responding from the Fringe: Women, Islam and Patriarchy in Nigerian Muslim Women's Novels Part V: Intranational, National and International Marginalization/Conflict 18. The Odds Against Eritrean Literature 19. Minority Discourses and the Construction of 'Illicit Versions' of Zimbabwean Nation-ness in Ndebele Fiction in English 20. The Muse of History and the Literature of the Nigeria-Biafra War Part VI: Literature and Disability 21. Children with Disabilities as Negotiatiors of Social Responsibility: A Critical Study of Meshak Asare's Sosu's Call 22. Beyond 'Harmless Lunacy': African Women Writers (W)riting Madness 23. Mental health, minority discourse and Tanure Ojaide’s short stories Part VII: Recent Trends of Marginalities: Timely and Timeless 24. Not Yet Season of Blossom: Writing Northern Nigeria into the Global Space 25. Afropolitan literature as a minority discourse in contemporary: African literature 26. Tanella Boni’s Matins de couvre-feu: environmentalism and ecocriticism in African literature 27. Futuristic themes and science fiction in modern African literature 28. Writing the Self: Indian Women Writers from South Africa