Starting with the premise that aesthetic choices reveal the ideological stances of translators, the author of this research monograph examines works of fiction by postcolonial African authors writing in English or French, the genesis and reception of their works, and the transla…
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This study examines the role of literature and history in the construction of postcolonial cultural identities in two African and two European societies. I examine in detail the works of one writer from each of these societies. Nuruddin Farah is a Somali writer who explores his …
Critics of African literature have sometimes identified portions or aspects of stories written by men as dealing positively with gender, and specifically, female issues. The overall impression, however, has been that male-authored stories are anti-feminist and work against the l…
This study explores the ways in which selected fictional narratives by Ayi Kwei Armah, Nuruddin Farah, Bessie Head and Wole Soyinka figure the African world in its postcolonial condition. By "figuration" I mean, after Hayden White, the manner in which a determinate narrative--hi…
My dissertation focuses on the intellectual migrant subject and its relationship to the American nation. In the dialectic of belonging and unbelonging the migrant subject engages in multiple acts of crossing borders—cultural, ethnic and linguistic borders. My dissertation extrap…
This dissertation examines the imaginative ways in which three postcolonial writers overcome a fractured collective past by creating a double-voiced discourse narrative framework that allows them to envision a reality that might-have-been while acknowledging the presence of domi…
“Representations of History in African Diasporic Literatures and the Politics of Postmodernism” examines four novels published by African American and African authors in late 1970s and early 1980s. Literary criticism set narrow terms for literary production during these politica…
This dissertation is concerned with literary and postcolonial (re)configurations of resistance and negotiation as concepts through which to approach representations of postcolonial conflict in contemporary African literatures. These concepts operate at various levels of the narr…
This dissertation examines the novels of Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Nadine Gordimer, and Nuruddin Farah, paying special attention to the relationship between language and nation, nation and race, as well as culture and language. The study explores how each of these contem…
In this dissertation, Wor(l)ds in Progress, I intend to offer, as indicated in the subtitle, a study of contemporary migrant writings. In so doing, I assume a double role: that of literary student, in the first part; and that of translator, in the second. My assumption is that b…
This dissertation explores the use of teleological eschatology in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross and Matigari , Nuruddin Farah's Secrets and Close Sesame , and Ayi Kwei Armah's 2000 Seasons and The Healers . In my reading of these three African writers, I noticed all wer…
This project redresses the comparative absence of sustained critical attention to two Anglophone African writers and, specifically, the space that Islam occupies in their corpus. The novels of Somali-born Nuruddin Farah and Tanzanian-born Abdulrazak Gurnah make crucial contribut…
As African societies come to live more and more in cities, they do so in ways that challenge prevailing theories and models of urban development in geography, sociology, anthropology, and planning. This book uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretica…
In this groundbreaking book, Garth Myers argues for a re-visioning of how cities in Africa are discussed and written about. Touching on a diverse range of examples, from Zanzibar to Nairobi, Cape Town to Mogadishu, Kinshasa to Dakar, Myers uses original research and a close read…
