The critical imagination in African literature essays in honor of Michael J.C. Echeruo / edited by Maik Nwosu and Obiwu.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Special focus: Cultural icon: Michael J.C. Echeruo and the African academy / Obiwu -- The figuration of the Un : between African and world literature / Maik Nwosu -- In "the vortex of the expulsion" : the search for an Asian African imaginary / Rashna Singh -- Jacques Lacan in Africa : travel, Moroccan cemetery, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and other passions of theory / Obiwu -- (Re)defining the self through trauma in West African postcolonial short fiction / Bojana Coulibaly -- African postcolonial imagination and the moral challenges of our times / Chielozona Eze -- Survivalist autobiographies : the struggles of African Muslim women / Glen Bush -- Rebellion as a narrative strategy in southern African women's writing / Kanchana Ugbabe -- Rewriting human rights : gender, violence, and freedom in the fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Heather Hewett -- Dialogism, African poetics, and contemporary Nigerian poetry in English / Sule Egya -- Confronting politics through history : a reading of the historical novels of Ayi Kwei Armah and John Edgar Wideman / Dul Johnson -- Special report: the Michael J.C. Echeruo valedictory symposium / Maik Nwosu and Obi Nwakanma.

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