Africa writes back to self: metafiction, gender, sexuality

Introduction : Writing back to self

Genealogies and functions of self-reflexive fiction

(En)countering sex in the nationalist canon

Potentials and pitfalls of national language literatures

Orature and deconstructed folklore

Politicized palimpsests and gendered intertexts

Painted metaphors : The gendered deployment of visual arts

Refiguring (out) queer sexualities

Gendered theoretical recalibrations.