40 TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION Texts, Modes and Repertoires of Living In and Beyond the Shadows of Apartheid SPEAKERS: Simon Gikandi Njabulo Ndebele Mia Couto Sindiwe Magona Liz Gunner Tanella Boni 9-13 APRIL 2014 WITS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT HUB WITS UNIVERSITY JOHANNESBURG For full programme visit the conference website at: www.ala2014.co.za [...]... (University of Pretoria) Debra Boyd (North Carolina Central University) Nothing New Under the Sun: Racial Profiling in Selected Works of Francophone African and African- American Literature and Film Hein Willemse (University of Pretoria) ‘This Shameful Box’: An Investigation of the Selfnarratives of ‘coloured Identity’in South African Auto/biographies Abdullahi A Kadir (Yobe State University) The Aesthetics of. .. Mda’s The Heart of Redness Sarah Senk (University of Hartford) Zakes Mda and the Future of Melancholy 26 Victoria Alabi (University of Ilorin) Indexes of the Reality of the New and Democratic South Africa in Zakes Mda’s The Heart Of Redness and The Whale Caller F-5: 215 Oral Literature: Performance Across Media Chair: Akintunde Akinyemi (University of Florida) Akintunde Akinyemi (University of Florida)... Inyabri (University of Calabar) Tony Afejuku and Samson Eguavoen (University of Benin) The Lingering Shadows of the Past in New Nigerian Poetry Thomas Inyabri (University of Calabar) Memory, Narrative and the Significance of Dennis Brutus in (South) African Poetry Florence O Orabueze (University of Nigeria) & Ifeyinwa Ogbazi (Nnamdi Azikiwe University) The Echoes of Trauma: Foregrounding of Violence in... (University of Uyo) Realism in Children’s Literature in Africa: A Study of Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation Juliana Daniels (University of Education-Winneba) Canes, Whips, Rods and War: The Epitome of Violence in Ghanaian Children’s Literature Blessing Diala-Ogamba (Coppin State University) Archetypal Symbols in Children’s Folklore in Nigeria E-10: G15 The Nation and Contemporary African Short... Bozzoli Hall Official Opening and Reception Welcome and Remarks by: Professor Adam Habib – Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand Professor Ruksana Osman – Dean of the Facultuy of Humanities Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson – Convener Music by Joe Makhanza and Thembinkosi Mavimbela Quintet 12 Schedule of Thursday’s Events Thursday 10 April 2014 6:30-8:30 AM ALA Executive... Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun Elizabeth Onogwu and Emmanuel Inedu (Yokohama National University) May We Never See This Again: Two Accounts of the Nigerian Civil War Bhakti Shringarpure (University of Connecticut) Specters of Fanon Ifeyinwa Ogbonna-Nwaogu (National Open University of Nigeria) Sexualizing the Role of Women in the Media Reportage of the Communal Conflicts Of Ife/Modakeke and Aguleri/Umuleri... The Bag on My Back 6:00-8:00 PM Bozzoli Hall An Evening of Homage / Tribute to Writers and Artists who have Passed On (Sponsored by the Department of Arts and Culture, Republic of South Africa) Hosted by Professor Tawana Kupe – Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Finance) and former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand 30 Schedule of Friday’s Events Friday 11 April 2014 6:30-8:30 AM... Onabanjo University / University of the Witwatersrand) Historicizing Memory, Theorizing Recollection: African Literature and the Crisis of Remembering 32 G-4: 314 Oral Literature: Oral Testimonies across Media Chair: Dale Byam (Brooklyn College, City University of New York) Dale Byam (Brooklyn College, City University of New York) No Space for FictionCaribbean Orature in the Age of Digital Storytelling Adewole... Duiker’s Quiet Violence of Dreams Kazeem Adebiyi (University of Ibadan) Patterns of Power Relation in the Motifs of Sex and Sexuality in Duiker’s Fiction Edgar Nabutanyi (Makerere University) Powerful Men, Moments of National Crisis and Boyhood Sexuality: Writing Pederasty in the Fiction of Behr and Duiker Yolisa Amanda Kenqu (Rhodes University) Trauma, Liminality and the Paradox of Disillusionment in... State University-Columbus) Priya Narismulu (University of KwaZulu-Natal) African Contributions to Ontological, Cultural and Epistemological Transformation 21 Daniel Matjila & Karen Haire (University of South Africa) Echoes of and Affinities with Bogosi (Kingship) in the Works of Sol T Plaatje Eric Nyembezi Makoni (University of Johannesburg) Two Sides of Silence: The Poet and the Decolonial Epistemic Paradigm . Peterson Department of African Literature University of the Witwatersrand Planning Committee Libby Meintjes (Head of School of Literature, Language and Media) Isabel Hofmeyr (Department of African Literature) . 70 Conference Center Floor Plan Index of Participants 2 AFRICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION GOVERNANCE & OFFICERS (2013-2014) African Literature Association Officers Officers. (Department of African Literature) Sarah Chiumbu (Department of Media Studies) Michael Titlestad (Department of English) Pumla Gqola (Department of African Literature) Veronique Tadjo (Department of