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Original publisher’s sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: 208pp., introduction, 15 contributions, list contributors, chapter notes & references, about the authors, index. CONTRIBUTIONS: Isabel Hoving: Introduction: Africa and Its Significant Others. 1. Steven Shankman: ‘Nom de Dieu, quelle race!’: The Saying, the Said, and the Betrayal of Charity in Mongo BetiÂ’s Le pauvre Christ de Bomba. 2. Harry Olufunwa: Earning a Life: Women and Work in the Fiction of Buchi Emecheta. 3. Elizabeth Bekers: Painful Entanglements: The International Debate on Female Genital Excision in African and African-American Literature. 4. Chantal Zabus: Acquiring Body: Waris Dirie, Infibulation, and New African Female Self-Writing. 5. Ariel Dorfman: Christopher Columbus has Words from the Other Side of Death For Captain John Whyte, Who Rebaptized Saddam International Airport as his Troops Rolled Into it. 6. Peter Geschiere: The Return of Culture: AnthropologyÂ’s Temptation. 7. Wilfried van Damme: Western Philosophy and the Study of Aesthetics in African Cultures. 8. Frans-Willem Korsten: Making History (In-)Cohere: An African and Africanism in Joost van den VondelÂ’s Palamedes [1625]. 9. Ernst van Alphen: Africa as Textual Play. 10. Ankie Peypers & Miriam Tiali: The Three Witches [In Dutch – with transl. in English]. 11. Miriam Tlali: To Mineke Schipper On Her Retirement. 12. Anne Adams: Literary Pan-Africanism. 13. Babacar MÂ’Baye: The Representation of Africa in Black Atlantic Studies of Race and Literature. 14. Kathleen Gyssels: Tristes Tropiques et ‘racial healing’: Ellen Ombre et Caryl Phillips rentrent au pays. 15. Mieke Bal: Meanwhile: Literature in an Expanded Field. Very fine copy – as new., Volume 11: Thamyris.