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AFRICAN NARRATIVES

2015 Journal of African Literature

 

In the volume AFRICAN RHYTHMS, our 11TH JALC Contemporary Series, we featured critical entries and reviews on authors of African fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction; we explored the African fictional landscape of human relationships and associations in addition to the tropes prevalent in the understanding and recreation of history and the shaping of thought brought about by fictional and cultural creations that are continually evolving and being reassessed within the canons.


With our concern with authors and their work, we are moving literary scholarship through texts and readings, beyond conventional categorisations, to investigate progress and aesthetic in African and African-American writing along fairly original indigenous philosophy, illuminating significant psychological, spiritual and ethical values that dominate much of ancient and modern African and African-American thoughts of the centuries.

African Narratives

Journal of African Literature No. 12 [African Narratives] reviews more authors and writings of African and African American experience in the next issue (2015) to elicit from the African Narrative content, including Western narratives on Africa, the processes of individual talent and perspectives around an essentially African experience.

To this end more critical entries and reviews on authors of African fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction are invited for the continuing issue.

We will welcome new insights and greater light on Narratives, History, Language, Nature, and Environment by scholars who can envision the writer in the imaginative articulation of African identity, the contestation of history, reassessment of culture and tradition and employment of the story for communal uplifts and social transformation.

Comparisons of more than one or two authors and their oeuvre emerging from this historic enterprise will meet our standards for diligent assessment of Africa�s creative literature alongside the vision, progress and aesthetic of her various nationalities, not neglecting the expanding awareness and consciousness of Space. Other prevailing discussions and reassessments around global peace initiatives and international friendships that create room for complementary values as the right approach to cultural understanding and appreciation in contemporary society will be gladly appraised.
 

 Researchers and scholars of Black and African writing are welcome to submit proposals and to dialogue with the editors regarding possible, suggested improvements on their research effort. Contributors willing and prepared to work with the editors to propagate the literature and thought of ancient, modern and diaspora Africa are welcome.


Submissions Guidelines:


Original abstracts of no more than 600 words showing topic, intended arguments and their relevance to the discourse theme or subcategory should be submitted by Microsoft Word attachment for approval.

 

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Download PDF Essays in African Writing: "Mutant Traditions" ; "Re-visioning African Writing"