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Current Issue


New Series: V1n1: Special Topic:
African Writing in the Twenty-First Century
Guest Editors: Lindsey Green-Simms and Simon Lewis


Essays Including:

"Introduction: "What's New in Africa? African Writing in the Twenty-First Century"
     by Lindsey Green-Simms (American University)
“Suturing Two Worlds. The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna”
     by Kenneth M. Harrow (Michigan State University)
“Strange[r] Encounters: I Do Not Come to You by Chance and the Rhetoric of 419”
     by Nicole Cesare (Temple University)
“Racial Power and Colorblindness: The “Sad Black Stories” of Kgebetli Moele’s Room 207 and 21st-Century Black South African Fiction”
     by Marzia Milazzo (University of California, Santa Barbara)
“Afro-Gothic: Testing the Term in South African Theatre”
     by Esther de Bruijn (University of Toronto)
“Blogging Queer Kenya”
     by Keguro Macharia (University of Maryland)
“Can You Hear Africa Roar? StoryTime and the Digital Publishing Innovations of Ivor Hartmann and Emmanuel Sigauke”
     by Tsitsi Jaji (University of Pennsylvania)
“The Caine Prize and the Impossibility of ‘New’ African Writing"
     by Samantha Pinto (Georgetown University)

Review Essays:

  • "African Film" by Lesley Marx (University of Cape Town)
  • "African Women" by Annie Gagiano (Stellenbosch University)
  • "South African Literature" by Neelika Jayawardane (SUNY Oswego)
  • "Francophone African Literature" by John Walsh (College of Charleston)

Now in its twenty-first year, the Journal looks for manuscripts which address the fluidity of postcolonial, transnational, diaspora, or cosmopolitan studies. We seek to publish work in both thematic (migration, diaspora studies, etc.) and geographic (Eurabia, South Asia, etc.) areas:

  • Bioethics, Ecology, and Ecocriticism
  • Migration, Diaspora, Hybridity, and Borders
  • Region, Religion, Politics, and Culture
  • Literature, Arts, and the Media
  • History and Historiography
  • War and Terrorism
  • Race, Racism, Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity
  • Ethics, Economics, and Globalization
  • Pedagogy and the Disciplines
  • Intersections of Francophone and Anglophone Literatures
  • Postcolonial and the Transnational Literatures
  • Liberation literature from Africa
  • Health and Wellness
  • North (excluding the USA), Central, and South America
  • Europe (Fortress Europe, Eurabia, Londonistan, Ireland)
  • South Asia (Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka)
  • Southeast Asia (Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam)
  • Africa (Nigeria, South Africa, Black Atlantic)
  • The Middle East
  • Australia and Oceania

Or any other aspect of the British Commonwealth of nations, or of countries formerly colonized by other European powers.

Our usual publication process is to alternate one open number with one focused special edition. A glance at our Contents archive will illustrate this process.