Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction: Linguistic (Re)turn and Craft in Contemporary African Literature""; ""Part I General Perspectives""; ""Towards a Stylistic Model for Analysing Anglophone African Literatures: Preliminary Epistemological Considerations and a Case Study""; ""Current Issues and Trends in African Verbal Stylistics: The Yoruba Example""; ""Part II Perspectives on Fiction""; ""Nnu Ego on the Verge of Feminist Consciousness: Feminist Stylistics and Buchi Emechetaâ€?s The Joys of Motherhood""
  • ""Speaking the Unspeakable in Iweala and Kourouma: The Trauma of Child Soldiers, Literary Stylistics and Story Telling""""Autobiographical Memory and Identity Construction in Tayo Olafioyeâ€?s Grandmaâ€?s Sun""; ""Narratives of a Wounded Time: Yvonne Veraâ€?s Poetics of Trauma""; ""Carl de Souzaâ€?s La maison qui marchait vers le large and the Multicultural Mauritian city""; ""A Stylistic Study of Metaphors in Chinua Achebeâ€?s Things Fall Apart""; ""Part III Perspectives on Orature and Poetry""; ""Stylistic Features of Igbo Riddles""; ""On Stylistic Trends in Modern Swahili Poetry""
  • ""New Wine in Old Wineskins: Stylistic Provisions of Oratureâ€?s Call and Response for Contemporary Discourses in Gikuyu Popular Music""""Acitivistic Undertones in the Music of Women: A Psychonalytic and Stylistic Reading of Agnes Mbutaâ€?s Dhiangâ€? Othuwowa gi Chuo""; ""Chronotopes of the (Post- ) Colonial Condition in Otjiherero Praise Poetry""; ""Metapoesis and â€?the Art of Chameleonsâ€? in Steve Chimomboâ€?s Poetry""; ""Part IV Perspectives on Drama and Theatre""; ""Female Sexuality under the Male Gaze: Reading Style and Ideology in Bole Butakeâ€?s The Rape of Michelle""
  • ""Figuration of â€?troubled motherhoodâ€? and Feminization of the Ugandan Nation in John Rugandaâ€?s Plays1""""Language and Meaning in Efo Mawugbeâ€?s In the Chest of a Woman""; ""Incantation as Discourse: A Discourse-Stylistic Study of the Confrontational Scene of Ola Rotimiâ€?s The Gods are Not to Blame""; ""Contributors""