Dedication

pp vii-viii

Contents

pp ix-xi

Notes on Contributors

pp xii-xiv

Foreword

pp xv-xviii

EDITORIAL ARTICLE

‘Is Egypt in Africa, Professor?’

pp 1-6

ARTICLES

Coping with a Failed Revolution: Basma Abdel Aziz, NaelEltoukhy, Mohammed Rabie & Yasmine El Rashidi

pp 7-21

The Complications of Reading Egypt as Africa: Translation& Magdy el-Shafee's مترو (Metro)

pp 22-38

Narratives of the ‘Nubian Awakening’: Reclaiming Egypt'sAfrican Identity

pp 39-57

Frantz Fanon's Conceptualization of Decolonization inSonallah Ibrahim's TheCommittee

pp 58-71

Romance as Epistemological Aesthetic in the Fiction ofAhdaf Soueif

pp 72-88

Literature as Prophecy: Re-Reading Yusuf Idris's TheCheapest Nights

pp 89-104

Travel & Discovery: Hopes for a New Egypt in MohamedSalmawy's Butterfly Wings

pp 105-119

The Symbolic Relevance of the Use of the Eye in Nawal ElSaadawi's Two Women in One & God Dies by theNile

pp 120-131

African Epics: A Comparative Study of Sundiata & Al-Sirahal-Hilaliyyah

pp 132-151

Conversations with Nawal El Saadawi: Onlineinterview

pp 152-158

FEATURED ARTICLES

pp 159-160

Little Magazines & the Development of Modern AfricanPoetry

pp 161-190

Locating African & Diasporic Literatures in theGlobal Context

pp 191-214

The Postcolonial Writer & the ExistentialOrdeal

pp 215-232

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

pp 233-234

My Mother (Nawal El Saadawi) – Poem

pp 235-236

And the Stars Beckoned – Short Story

pp 237-242

Hijack in Hurghada – A Travelogue

pp 243-250

Childless – Short Story

pp 251-264

The President's Change Agent

pp 265-272

TRIBUTE

In Memoriam: Professor Isidore O. Okpewho,1941–2016

pp 273-279