JALA Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book of the Year Award - Creative Writing: Nduka Otiono for DisPlace (Wilfred Laurier University Press) Honorable mention to James Yeku for Where the Baedeker Leads (Mawenzi House Publishers)

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James Yékú discusses his latest book Cultural Netizenship (2022), where he explores the cultural politics of protest selfies, Nollywood-derived memes and GIFs, hashtags, and political cartoons as visual texts for postcolonial studies.

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Book Review alert! “Post-apartheid same-sex sexualities: restless identities in literary and visual culture” by Andy Carolin @CarolinAndy, reviewed by Gibson Ncube @gib_zzz Access: https://t.co/rbq46QNr5J https://t.co/FyNTNa5FtQ

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In this lecture, Omolade Adunbi discusses his latest book Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria (2022), in which he examines the impact of extractive practices for communities living in the Niger Delta.

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Armillas-Tiseyra reads them alongside Emmanuel Dongala’s “Jazz and Palm Wine” and argues that these attenuated futures function as counter-futurisms, facilitating critical meditation on the present question of freedom, akin to what Dongala achieved earlier via his comical tone.

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Lori Leonard discusses her book Life in the Time of Oil: A Pipeline and Poverty in Chad (2016), detailing 12 years of data collection on the “oil as social and economic development” project model, its policies, and how it affected local communities.

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This essay draws on Carole Boyce Davies’s influential Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (1994), and its theory of subjectivity as movement, to highlight Davies’s contribution to reconceptualizing efforts of black subjectivity.

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Nienke Boer analyzes South African literature as Indian Ocean literature to open new angles of approach and discuss South Asian indentured labor, slavery, and settler colonialism, themes of her new book The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World.

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Honorable mention to Jeanne-Marie Jackson for The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing (Princeton University Press) First Book Award: Matthew Brown for Indirect Subjects: Nollywood's Local Address (Duke University Press)

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Book review alert! "Mobility in contemporary Zimbabwean literature in English: crossing borders, transcending boundaries" by Magdalena Pfalzgraf, reviewed by Cuthbeth Tagwirei. Access: https://t.co/jPvByZ49P0 @TandF_Africa @AfricanLitAssoc