Chantal Zabus :: Publications - Reviews,Review Essays and Interviews

Professeur des Universités, UParis 13, France

Reviews, Review Essays and Interviews

• (Review-Essay) "Achebe's Chi and the Specter of Marx: Two Hauntologies for Teaching the African Novel in American Classrooms" (on Teaching the African Novel, 1. ed. Gaurav Desai, Recherche Littéraire/Literary Research 26 (Summer 2010) : 40-46.

• (Review of) Somewhere in the Double Rainbow: Representations of Bisexuality in Post-Apartheid Novels. Cheryl Stobie, Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, 30:2 (Spring 2008), 123-125.

• (Review) "Against All Odds: A Documentary (DVD)," in Research in African Literatures 39:4 (Winter 2008), 165-166.
   "Paradigms Lost: A Review Essay" (Christian Mair, ed. The Politics of English as a World Language, 2003), in Anglistica, 10: 1-2 (2006): 431-441

• "Men's Business," (Chantal Zabus interviews Koffie Kwahulé), in Fearful Symmetries: Essays and Testimonies Around Excision and Circumcision, ed. & introduced by Chantal ZABUS, Matatu , Special Issue (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2008), pp. 169-187.
• "After the Kenyan Harvest," (Chantal Zabus interviews Alex Wanjala), in Fearful Symmetries: Essays and Testimonies Around Excision and Circumcision, ed. & introduced by Chantal ZABUS, Matatu , Special Issue (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2008), pp. 189-196.
• "Will the Third Millennium Be Circumcised?" (Chantal Zabus interviews Dominique Arnaud), in Fearful Symmetries: Essays and Testimonies Around Excision and Circumcision, ed. & introduced by Chantal ZABUS, Matatu , Special Issue (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2008), pp. 197-207.
• "Cutting and Film Cutting/Ashes" (Chantal Zabus interviews Safaa Fathy), in Fearful Symmetries: Essays and Testimonies Around Excision and Circumcision, ed. & introduced by Chantal ZABUS, Matatu , Special Issue (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2008), pp. 221-234.
• (Review), Peter Childs, Modernism and the Post-Colonial: Literature and Empire 1885-1930, in English Text Construction (John Benjamins) 1:2 (2008), 308-310.
• "Paradigms Lost," Review essay on Christian Mair, ed., The Politics of English as a World Language: New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies, Anglistica, ed. Jane Wilkinson, 2007.
• (Review-Essay), "A Feminist Family Drama: on Elleke Boehmer's Stories of Women, Postcolonial Text, 3:1 (2007), on-line.
• (Review) Susan Arndt & Marek Spitczok Von Brisinski, eds. Africa, Europe and (Post)Colonialism: Racism, Migration and Diaspora, Etudes littéraires africaines 22 (Paris: Karthala, 2007), pp. 39-41.
• (Interview with Koffi Kwahulé) "A Propos de Bintou: excision et circoncision," Africultures, 4235 (09/12/2005). Egalement disponible sur www.africultures.com.
• (Review-essay) "Of the Ghostly: on Adele King, Rereading Camara Laye and From Africa: New Francophone Stories, Journal of Postcolonial Writing (formerly World Literature Written in English), ed. Janet Wilson (2004), 40:2, 116-126.
• (Review-essay) "On Excision: The Horned Beetle with the Double Pair of Wings," Feminist Europa, 2: 2 (2002), pp. 28-32.
• "Autobiography, Biography and Memoir," Conference Session IV: Facts and Fictions in all Three Genres, Partisan Review, 68 (1): 127-161 (with J. S. Rose, F. Duplessix-Gray, Jeffrey Mehlman, Stanley Crouch et al);
• (Review-essay) on "Excision in Fatou Keita's Rebelle" (1998), in Palabres: Femmes africaines en poésie, textes réunis et présentés par Irène Assiba d'Almeida, African Studies Review, volume spécial 2001, pp. 251-254.
• (Review) Bessora, Les taches d'encre, World Literature Today, 75:2 (Spring 2001), 351.
• (Review-essay) Craig McLuckie and Aubrey McPhail, eds. Ken Saro-Wiwa : Writer and Political Activist (2000) , ARIEL, 31 :3 (July 2000), 194-197.
• (On-line review) "At the End of the Rainbow: A Note on Queerness in Toufann," website africacentre@org.uk (London, 2000).
• (Review) "Lagon, Lagunes: A Memoir", World Literature Today 75:1 (Winter 2001), 138-139.
• (Review) 'Your Madness, Not Mine': Stories of Cameroon, World Literature Today, 74:3 (Summer 2000), 567.
• (Review) New Fiction from Africa: West, East, and South, World Literature Today, 74:2 (Spring 2000), 339.
• (Review) Karin Barber, John Collins, Alain Ricard, eds. West African Popular Theatre, The African Studies Review, 41:1 (April 1998), 200-201.
• (Review) L'Afrique plurielle (Albert Gérard) and The ASNEL Papers, Vols. I and II, 1997, African Literature Today, 1999.
• (Homage) "Albert Gérard : d'affiliation en filiation," in Le Carnet et Les Instants, 107, mars-mai 1999, 15-16.
• (Review) Bolya Baenga, La Polyandre, World Literature Today, 73 :1 (Winter 1999), 195.
• (Review) Black Writers from Africa and the West Indies de R. Guiguère, World Literature Today, 72:1 (Winter 1998), 185-186.
• (Review) Marie-Claire Blais: Soifs, World Literature Today, 1997.
• (Review) Suzanne Jacob: Les Ecrits de l'Eau suivi de Les Sept Fenêtres, World Literature Today, 1996.
• (Review) Liam Kennedy: Mind as Passion : Susan Sontag, World Literature Today, 1996.
• (Review) Françoise Lionnet: Postcolonial Representations, World Literature Today, 1996.
• (Review) Christiane Fioupou: La Route, Matatu, 1996.
• (Review) Irène Assiba d'Almeida: Francophone African Women Writers : Destroying the Emptiness of Silence, World Literature Today, 69/3 (Summer 1995), 629.
• (Review) Kenneth J. Harrow: Thresholds of Change in African Literature : The Emergence of a Tradition, World Literature Today, 69 :1 (Winter 1995), p. 203.
• (Review) Christopher L. Miller: Theories of Africans, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 17 :4 (1992), 640-645.
• (Review) Barbara Harlow: Resistance Literature, Africana Journal, 17 (1993).
• (Review) Jonathan Ngate: Francophone African Fiction : Reading a Literary Tradition, Research in African Literature, 21 :1 (Spring 1990), 159-163.
• (Review) Elechi Amadi, Estrangement, World Literature Today, 1987.

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