Posts Tagged: African Literature

PSA Newsletter #31 (October 2024)

The PSA Newsletter #31 focuses on the theme “Exploring/ Expanding/ Challenging the Postcolonial Canon”, which will invite readers to ask crucial questions about both the limits of the label “postcolonial” and the criteria that determine a literary work as part of the “canon” of postcolonial literature. Following a letter to the Association’s members with updates from the PSA’s Executive Committee, the issue continues with eight original contributions. Aminat Emma Badmus opens the newsletter with an exploration of Akwaeke Emezi’s Dear Senthuran: ... Read more

Call for papers Literary Networks and Digital Media in Contemporary African Literatures Postcolonial Text, Double Guest Issue 13:3 & 13:4, 2018

Call for papers Literary Networks and Digital Media in Contemporary African Literatures Postcolonial Text, Double Guest Issue 13:3 & 13:4, 2018 The aim of this double guest issue is to examine the notion of network(s) in relation to literary production on the African continent. As a theoretical tool, the notion refers to a complex system of interconnected individuals or institutions, one that often transcends physical borders and that is hard to delineate due to its ever-evolving and shifting nature. If one tends to focus ... Read more