Writing Apartheid: Miriam Tlali’s Soweto Stories

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication. Chinua Achebe Joins the Ancestors 1930–2013 vii
3. Contents ix
4. Notes on Contributors xi
5. EDITORIAL ARTICLE
6. Once Upon a Time Begins a Story...’ 1
7. ARTICLES
8. ‘Real Africa’ / ‘ Which Africa?’ The Critique of Mimetic Realism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Short Fiction 8
9. Writing Apartheid: Miriam Tlali’s Soweto Stories 25
10. Articulations of Home & Muslim Identity in the Short Stories of Leila Aboulela 40
11. Ugandan Women in Contest with Reality: Mary K. Okurutu’s A Woman’s Voice & the Women’s Future 52
12. Snapshots of the Botswana Nation: Bessie Head’s The Collector of Treasures & Other Botswana Village Tales as a National Project 65
13. Widowhood – Institutionalized Dead Weight to Personal Identity & Dignity: A Reading of Ifeoma Okoye’s The Trial & Other Stories 77
14. Feminist Censure of Marriage in Islamic Societies: A Thematic Analysis of Alifa Rifaat’s Short Stories 89
15. Diaspora Identities in Short Fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Sefi Atta 102
16. Exposition of Apartheid South African Violence & Injustice in Alex la Guma’s Short Stories 115
17. Locating a Genre: Is Zimbabwe a Short Story Country? 127
18. Mohammed Dib’s Short Stories on the Memory of Algeria 135
19. Ama Ata Aidoo’s Short Stories: Empowering the African Girl-Child 148
20. Ama Ata Aidoo: An interview for ALT 162
21. REVIEWS
22. Amir Taj ElSir The Grub Hunter 169
23. Gordon Collier. ed. Focus on Nigeria: Literature and Culture 171
24. Dominique Chancé and Alain Ricard (eds). Études littéraires 172
25. Laura Murphy. Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature 174
26. Eldred Durosimi Jones with Marjorie Jones. The Freetown Bond: A Life under Two Flags 176