ALT 39: Speculative & Science Fiction

Author:   Ernest N Emenyonu (Author) ,  Dr Louisa Uchum Egbunike ,  Chimalum Nwankwo (Customer) ,  Gabriel Bámgbóṣé
Publisher:   James Currey
Volume:   39
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9781847012852


Pages:   276
Publication Date:   02 November 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Ernest N Emenyonu (Author) ,  Dr Louisa Uchum Egbunike ,  Chimalum Nwankwo (Customer) ,  Gabriel Bámgbóṣé
Publisher:   James Currey
Imprint:   James Currey
Volume:   39
Weight:   0.452kg
ISBN:  

9781847012852


ISBN 10:   184701285
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   02 November 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"EDITORIAL ARTICLE Introduction: Science & Speculative Fiction - What is Past and Present . . . and What is Future? LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE and CHIMALUM NWANKWO ARTICLES 'Being very human in one of the most inhuman cities in the world': Lagos as a Site of Africanfuturist Invasion in Lagoon and Godhunter JANELLE RODRIQUES Southern Africannearfutures: black-tech, ambivalence, and speculation in Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift and Masande Ntshanga's Triangulum JEFFREY G. DODD Woman of the Aeroplanes and the Prediction of the Future CHUKWUNONSO EZEIYOKE Re-membering the Past: Black Panther, Sovereignty, and the Cultural Politics of Africanfuturism KAYODE ODUMBONI African Counter-utopias: from Counter-narratives to the Presentification of Alternative Worlds ERIC TSIMI Shifting the Frame: Re-imagining Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God as Speculative Narratives CLARA IJEOMA OSUJI Contemporary Ugandan Speculative Fiction: A Passing Fad or an Emerging Canon? EDGAR NABUTANYI Moving the Centre: Positions and Locations of African Speculative Fiction JAMES ORAO FEATURE ARTICLE Reimagining Transracial Intimacy: The Cartography of Decolonial Love in Leila Aboulela's Something Old, Something New' and Tomi Adeaga's 'Marriage and Other Impediments' GABRIEL BAMGBOSE INTERVIEWS With Chigozie Obioma LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE With Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o KADIJA GEORGE With Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu KUFRE USANGA LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Poison for the Dogs' (Short Story) ESHITIKA L. LUTOMIA 'Wherever Something Stands Something Else Must Stand Beside It' (Short Story) A. ONIPEDE HOLLIST 'The Song-Warrior' (Short Story) REGINALD OFODILE 'Answers that will not be swallowed' (Poem) 'When a bitch eats her young' (Poem) 'This is how' (Poem) 'A Daughter, Coming Undone' (Poem) 'Crumbs' (Poem) 'Not Crying' (Poem) IQUO DIANAABASI 'The String of Discord' (Poem) ""Destiny's Dish"" 'Tasha' (Poem) AISHA UMAR 'African Children' (Poem) TIJANI ABDULLAHI OLANIYI 'Nun's Twilight Call' (Poem) CLARA IJEOMA OSUJI 'To Mokwugo Okoye - A Forsaken Freedom Fighter' (Poem) IFEOMA OKOYE REMEMBERING ELDRED JONES (1925-2020) Farewell, Othello's Countryman NIYI OSUNDARE Professor Eldred Jones: A Humanist and Critic ELIZABETH I.A. KAMARA TRIBUTE Chukwuemeka Ike: An Administrator with a Cinematic Imagination AUSTINE AMANZE AKPUDA REVIEWS Sakui Malakpa, Black Professor, White University OBI NWAKANMA Daria Tunca (ed), Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie KATE HARLIN Ernest Emenyonu, The Literary History of the Igbo Novel: African Literature in African Languages KUFRE USANGA Jack Mapanje, Greetings from Grandpa OLUFEMI DUNMADE Ada Uzoamaka Azodo & Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo (eds), Resident Alien and Other Stories: An Anthology of Immigrant Voices from Africa and the African Diaspora INI UKO"

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This constructive volume 39 of African Literature Today arrives with absorbing focus on the inherently speculative nature of African writing. The articles, interviews, literary supplements comprising short fiction, poetry and reviews will enchant lovers of black speculative fiction. [...] This is truly a worthwhile read. * Aurealis *


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ERNEST N. EMENYONU is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012). LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE is Associate Professor in African and Caribbean Literature, Durham University). She has been guest lecturer to institutions including Wellesley College, The University of the West Indies and The University of Bremen. She has published in journals including African Literature Today and Matatu and has chapters published in edited books including A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. CHIMALUM NWANKWO is Writer-in-Residence, Department of English and Literary Studies, Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria. He has previously taught at the Universities of Nigeria, East Carolina-Greenville, North Carolina A & T State University-Greensboro, where he was Professor of English and World Literatures and Former Chair of the Department of English, Nigeria Turkish Nile University in Abuja. He was Guest Editor of ALT 30 Reflections & Retrospectives. His other critical studies include Of the Deepest Shadows and The Prisons of Fire (2010) and Toward the kingdom of Woman and Man: The Works of Ngugi wa Thiongo (1992). He is also an acclaimed poet, who has published five volumes of poetry, including The Womb in the Heart and Other Poems and Lovesong for Julian Assange & Poems from Love Mountain. LOUISA UCHUM EGBUNIKE is Associate Professor in African and Caribbean Literature, Durham University). She has been guest lecturer to institutions including Wellesley College, The University of the West Indies and The University of Bremen. She has published in journals including African Literature Today and Matatu and has chapters published in edited books including A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. CHIMALUM NWANKWO is Writer-in-Residence, Department of English and Literary Studies, Veritas University, Abuja, Nigeria. He has previously taught at the Universities of Nigeria, East Carolina-Greenville, North Carolina A & T State University-Greensboro, where he was Professor of English and World Literatures and Former Chair of the Department of English, Nigeria Turkish Nile University in Abuja. He was Guest Editor of ALT 30 Reflections & Retrospectives. His other critical studies include Of the Deepest Shadows and The Prisons of Fire (2010) and Toward the kingdom of Woman and Man: The Works of Ngugi wa Thiongo (1992). He is also an acclaimed poet, who has published five volumes of poetry, including The Womb in the Heart and Other Poems and Lovesong for Julian Assange & Poems from Love Mountain.

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