Cover of Research in African Literatures Special Issue: Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift: Disruption

Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift: Disruption (Special Issue)

Edited Volume

Deborah Nyangulu (ed.)

2022

Research in African Literatures, the premier journal of African literary studies worldwide, serves as a stimulating vehicle in English for research on the oral and written literatures of Africa. Reviews of current scholarly books are included in every number, and a forum offers readers the opportunity to respond to issues raised in articles and book reviews.

Research in African Literatures, 53(3) 2022. Indiana: Indiana University Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/50364#info_wrap

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ISSN: 0034-5210

ISSN: 1527-2044

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relational

“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”

Ingo H. Warnke
power and resistance

“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”

Gisela Febel
every day

“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”

Gisela Febel
problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”

Martin Nonhoff
space

“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.

Julia Lossau