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"Offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as a collective memory built over the years by generations of authors. It considers what African writers assume readers know and need to know, the shared sense of the past as it has shaped identity and space"--

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Introduction Neil ten Kortenaar and James Ogude; Part I. Sources: 1. The Colonial Archive Neil ten Kortenaar; 2. Responding to Orality in Literature Senayon Olaoluwa; 3. The Idea of Africa: A Liberating Concept or a Western Imperialist Trope? Reginald M. J. Oduor; 4. African Responses to European Literature about Africa Julia Galmiche-Essue; 5. The Travelling Archive: The Discursive Knowledge Circuits of Transatlantic Africas Ronit Frenkel; Part II. Memories: 6. Black Antiquity Garnette Oluoch-Olunya; 7. Imagining Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Works of African Writers Cheryl Sterling; 8. The Colonial Encounter David Attwell; 9. Arab Traces in Coastal Eastern Africa Tina Steiner; 10. Recalling colonialism in North Africa Oana Panaïté; 11. In the Name of God: Mission, Nation and the Postcolonial Condition Alexie Tcheuyap; 12. Aestheticizing and Archiving the Women's War of 1929 and the 1949 Women's March on the Grand-Bassam Prison Naminata Diabate; 13. Queer Pasts Brenna M. Munro; 14. Liberation Struggles Grace A. Musila; 15. The Archival Impulse in African Fictions of Civil Strife Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba; Part III. Maps: 16. Valleys of Strife: Geology as Archive in African Literature Robert Muponde; 17. Remembering the City: Lagos and National Time Femi Eromosele; 18. Migrant City: Mapping Literary Johannesburg across (Southern) Africa Rebecca Fasselt; 19. Algiers as a 'Realm' of Memory in Contemporary Algerian Postcolonial Literature of French-Expression Valérie K. Orlando; 20. Nairobi as an Archive of Literary Imagination James Ogude.