Jane Kurtz. Saba: Under the Hyena's Foot. Middleton: Pleasant Company Publications, 2004. 224 pp. $15.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58485-829-4; $7.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-58485-747-1.
Reviewed by J. Roger Kurtz (Department of English, State University of New York, Brockport) Published on H-AfrLitCine (December, 2004)
An Ethiopian Girl's Adventures
Mubina Hassanali Kirmani, Sanaullah Kirmani. Oral Literature of the Asians in East Africa. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 2002. xviii + 120 pp. No price listed (paper), ISBN 978-9966-25-085-8.
Reviewed by J. Roger Kurtz (Department of English, State University of New York, Brockport) Published on H-AfrLitCine (December, 2004)
Mugyabuso M. Mulokozi. The African Epic Controversy: Historical, Philosophical, and Aesthetic Perspectives on Epic Poetry and Performances. Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2002. xviii + 550 pp. $49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-9987-686-29-2.
Reviewed by Stephen Belcher (Independent Scholar) Published on H-AfrLitCine (February, 2004)
Ingrid de Kok. Terrestrial Things. Roggebaai and Plumstead: Kwela Books, 2002. 63 pp. $7.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7957-0146-7.
Reviewed by Simon Lewis (Department of English, College of Charleston) Published on H-AfrLitCine (February, 2003)
Some Blessed Hope?
Some Blessed Hope?
Buchi Offodile. The Orphan Girl and Other Stories: West African Folk Tales. New York and Northampton: Interlink Books, 2001. xii + 260 pp. $15.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-56656-375-8.
Reviewed by Stephen Belcher (co-editor, ) Published on H-AfrLitCine (February, 2003)
Harold Scheub. A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xv + 368 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-512456-9.
Reviewed by Stephen Belcher (co-editor, ) Published on H-AfrLitCine (February, 2003)
Stephanie Newell, ed. Readings in African Popular Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. ix + 206 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-21510-9; $54.95 (library), ISBN 978-0-253-34051-1.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth) Published on H-AfrLitCine (June, 2002)
Okot p'Bitek. The Defence of Lawino: A New Translation of Wer pa Lawino by Taban lo Liyong. Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2001. xxvi + 115 pp. $11.95 (paper), ISBN 978-9970-02-269-4.
Reviewed by Simon Lewis (Department of English, College of Charleston) Published on H-AfrLitCine (February, 2002)
A New Lawino?
A New Lawino?
Douglas Killam, Ruth Rowe, eds. The Companion to African Literatures. Oxford and Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. xiii + 322 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-33633-0.
Reviewed by J. Roger Kurtz (Department of English, State University of New York, Brockport) Published on H-AfrLitCine (September, 2001)
Kofi Anyidoho, James Gibb, eds. Fontom from: Contemporary Ghanaian Literature, Theatre and Film. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000. 383 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-90-420-1273-8.
Reviewed by Victor S. Dugga (Department of Theatre and Communication Arts, University of Jos, Nigeria) Published on H-AfrLitCine (September, 2001)
Royal Drums for Ghana's Arts
Ernest N. Emenyonu, ed. Goatskin Bags and Wisdom: New Critical Perspectives on African Literature. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2000. xx + 393 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-86543-671-8.
Reviewed by Stephen Belcher Published on H-AfrLitCine (August, 2001)
Jane Bryce. The Post-Colonial Condition of African Literature (Annual Selected Papers of the Ala, No. 6.). Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2000. 149 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-86543-770-8; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-86543-771-5.Eldred Durosimi Jones, Marjorie Jones, eds. Exile and African Literature.
Karen Press. Home. Manchester: Carcanet, 2000. 72 pp. £6.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-85754-478-7.Adam Schwartzman, ed. Ten South African Poets. Manchester: Carcanet, 1999. ix + 226 pp. £12.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-85754-393-3.
Odile Cazenave. Rebellious Women: The New Generation of Female African Novelists. Boulder, Colo. and London: Lynne Rienner, 2000. ix + 259 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-89410-884-6.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth) Published on H-AfrLitCine (February, 2001)
Ruth Obee. Es'kia Mphahlele: Themes of Alienation and African Humanism. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1999. 288 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8214-1249-7.
Reviewed by Ronit Fainman-Frenkel (Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson) Published on H-AfrLitCine (February, 2001)
Es'kia Mphahlele
Es'kia Mphahlele
