Monthly Archives: March 2016

“But the popular, as has been suggested, is by character and convention somewhat traditional, or (in modern parlance) conservative: the community – mythic in its imagination – retains its coherent entity.” (143) the amalgamation in Chapman’s piece renders my understanding … Continue reading →

Njabulo Ndebele’s offers a most interesting account of black South African writers’ journey towards the rediscovery of what he calls the ‘ordinary.’ In other words, Ndebele engages with the evolution of black South African literature from a state in which … Continue reading →

  Frederiksen, echoing Terry Hirst, suggests that mascot Joe is “‘a survivor who has to laugh to keep from crying’” (95). While the creators of the magazine do suggest that the magazine proffers some strain of counterdiscourse to the Kenyan … Continue reading →

In “Drum Magazine (1951-9) & The Spatial Configurations of Gender,” Dorothy Driver argues that Drum magazine, in its reproduction of American gender constructions, sought to establish “a modern form of romantic love within an ideology of domesticity, aiming for the … Continue reading →

After our conversation about which intentional/unintentional roles Nuruddin Farah found himself taking on during his Open Book talk, and keeping in mind the essays, “The African Novel” and “The Extroverted African Novel,” I’m glad to be engaging with a text … Continue reading →