5 Modern Culture and Our Destiny
Editors of Présence Africaine
8 Opening Address
Alioune Diop
15 African Literatures in Comparative Perspective
Eileen Julien
25 The Famished Road: Magical Realism and the Search for Social
Equity
Edna Aizenberg
31 Reading Roots--from Sunjata to Kunta Kinte and Milkman Dead
Keith Cartwright
52 Of Birds and Millet: Problems in West African Mythology
Stephen Belcher
67 Milk and Honey: Developing Written Literature in Pulaar
Sonja Fagerberg Diallo
84 "Audible Gasps from the Audience": Accusations of Plagiarism
against African American Authors and Their Historical Contexts
János Riesz
98 Ògúntóyìnbó: Modernity and the 'Rediscovery' Phase of
Postcolonial Literature
Biodun Jeyifo
110 Post-Colonial Literary Theory and the Theorizing of African
Literature
Nana Wilson-Tagoe
120 Interview with Femi Osofisan
Biodun Jeyifo
133 Comparative Literature at Cheikh Anta Diop University
Oumar Ndongo
133 Comparative Literature at the University of Yaoundé
André Ntonfo (Translated by Eileen Julien and Mary Vogl)
136 Report on the 21st Annual Conference of the African Literature Association
Kenneth W. Harrow
137 Eric Livingston. An Anthropology of Reading
Allen Meek
140 John Pizer. Toward a Theory of Radical Origin: Essays on
Modern German Thought
Stanley Corngold
144 Asha Varadharajan. Subjectivity in Adorno, Said, and Spivak
Robert Miklitsch
148 Donald Bruce and Anthony Purdy, eds. Literature and Science
Rafael Chabrán
150 Lawrence Nees. A Tainted Mantle: Hercules and the Classical
Tradition at the Carolingian Court
Elizabeth Umbanhower
153 Willaim Kennedy. Authorizing Petrarch
Lisa Freinkel
157 Ignacio Navarrete. Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the
Spanish Renaissance
Frederick A. de Armas
159 Marina S. Brownlee and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, eds. Cultural
Authority in Golden Age Spain
David J. Hildner
162 Frank Trommler, ed. Thematics Reconsidered. Essays in Honor of Horst Daemmrich.
163 Clifford Albrecht Bernd. Poetic Realism in Scandinavia and
Central Europe, 1820-1895
Niels Ingwersen
167 Bruce Comers. Apocalypse and After: Modern Strategy and
Postmodern Tactics in Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky
John Young
169 David Hertz. Angels of Reality: Emersonian Unfoldings in Wright, Stevens, and Ives and Frank Lloyd Wright in Word and Form
Robert K. Wallace
172 Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris, eds. Magic Realism:
Theory, History, Community
Darrell B. Lockhart
175 Fedwa Malti-Douglas. Men, Women and God(s): Nawal El
Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics
Evelyen Accad
176 Wai Lim Yip. Diffusion of Distances: Dialogues Between Chinese
and Western Poetics
John Timothy Wixted