Contenu du sommaire : Positively Popular: African Culture In The Mainstream.

Positively Popular: African Culture In The Mainstream. Pim Higginson, Guest Editor

• Positively Popular: African Culture In The Mainstream. Introduction - Higginson P. p. vii-x
• Dirty Whites: "Ruffian-Writing" in Colonial West Africa - Newell S. p. 1-13
• Displacement in French/Displacement of French: The Reggae and R'n'B of Tiken Jah Fakoly and Corneille - Bourderionnet O. p. 14-23
• Interviews with Amaka Igwe, Tunde Kelani, and Kenneth Nnebue - Esonwanne U. p. 24-39
• Ouaga Saga, Magical Realism, and Postcolonial Politics - Yezrvasi C. p. 41-57
• New Technologies and the Popular: Alain Mabanckou's Blog - Thomas D. p. 58-71
• Kenyan Popular Fiction in English and the Melodramas of the Underdogs - Odhiambo T. p. 72-82
• The Submitted Body: Discursive and Masochistic Transformation of Masculinity in Simon Njami's African Gigolo - Bryson D. p. 83-104
• Residing in Kinshasa: Between Colonial Modernization and Globalization - Jewsiewicki B. p. 105-119
• The Troubling Popularity of West African Romance Novels - Moudileno L. p. 120-132
• Tortured Bodies, Loved Bodies: Gendering African Popular Fiction - Higginson P. p. 133-146
• Book Reviews. Africa after Gender? ed. Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephan F. Miescher, 2007 - Nfah-Abbenyi J.M. p. 147-148
• Book Reviews. "Wo ist Afrika?" Paratopische Asthetik in der zeitgenossischen Romanliteratur des frankophonen Schwarzafrika / Where is Africa ? Paratopical Aesthetics in Contemporary Novel writing from Francophone Africa South of the Sahara, by Thorsten Schuller, 2008 - Veit-Wild F. p. 148-149
• Book Reviews. Approches du roman et du théâtre missionnaires, ed. Pierre Halen, 2006 - Ngandu Nkashama P. p. 150-151
• Book Reviews. Histoire des littératures de l'Afrique subsaharienne, by Alain Ricard Pius, 2006 - Nkashama N. p. 151-155
• Book Reviews. Littérature orale africaine: nature, genres, caractéristiques et fonctions, by Crispin Maalu-Bungi Pius, 2006 - Nkashama N. p. 155-157
• Book Reviews. Carthage ou la flamme du brasier: mémoire et échos chez Virgile, Senghor, Mellah, Ghachem, Augustin, Ammi, Broch et Glissant, by Bernadette Cailler, 2007 - Kande S. p. 157-159
• Book Reviews. Postcolonial Violence, Culture and Identity in Francophone Africa and the Antilles, ed. Lorna Milne, 2007 - Haigh S. p. 160-161
• Book Reviews. Subject and History in Selected Works by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera, and David Dabydeen, by Erik Falk, 2007 - Helgesson S. p. 161-162
• Book Reviews. An Introduction to the Literature of Equatorial Guinea: Between Colonialism and Dictatorship, by Marvin A. Lewis, 2007 - Ngom M. p. 162-163
• Book Reviews. Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection, by Jeremy D. Popkin, 2008 - Rucker W. p. 164-165
• Book Reviews. Against All Odds: A Documentary (DVD). Produced by the Audio-Visual Institute of Erithrea (AVIE), 2007 - Zabus C. p. 165-166
• Book Reviews. Encountering Modernity, by Keyan Tomaselli, 2006. South African National Cinema, by Jacqueline Maingard, 2007 - Kruger L. p. 166-169
• Book Reviews. The Afro-Brazilian Mind: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Criticism, ed. Niyi Afolabi, Marcio Barbosa, and Esmeralda Ribeiro, 2007 Ossobó: Essays on the Literature of Sao Tome and Principe, by Donald Burgess, 2005 - Rothwell P. p. 169-171
• Book Reviews. Not so Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Cultural and History, 1890-2000, ed. Patricia Mazdn and Reinhild Steingrover, 2005 - Berman N. p. 171-172