Introduction : teaching the African novel / Gaurav Desai
Pt. I. Theories and methods
African novels and the question of theory / Olakunle George
Marxist approaches to the African novel / Nicholas Brown
Why history matters in the African novel / Eleni Coundouriotis
Political critique and resistance in African fiction / Tejumola Olaniyan
Women writers and gender in the sub-Saharan novel / Odile Cazenave
Translation and the African novel : reading as re/membering / Lisa McNee
Pt. II. Regional imperatives, thematic categories
Rethinking the Arab African novel : a case for thematization / Zahr Said Stauffer
Approaches to teaching the Maghrebian novel : allegory at the crossroads / Jarrod Hayes
The novel, historiography, and the griot epic in the Sahel / Christopher Wise
Approaches to teaching Islam in the West African novel / Shirin Edwin
Unveiling the African legacy in Spanish : novels from Equatorial Guinea / Dosinda García-Alvite
Teaching lusophone African fiction / Fernando Arenas
The pleasures of the political : apartheid and postapartheid South African fiction / Louise Bethlehem
Language, multiple worlds, and material culture in the teaching of African migrant fiction / Brenda Cooper
East African fiction and globalization / Peter Kalliney
Pt. III. Pedagogical and instructional contexts
The African novel in a course on the twentieth-century novel in English / S. Shankar
The francophone African novel in the French-language classroom / Mohamed Kamara
Introducing African novels in a web-enhanced community college survey course / Cora Agatucci
Between three African locations : teaching Chinua Achebe's 'Things fall apart' at the Universities of Ibadan, Zululand, and Cape Town / Harry Garuba
The blank maps of difficult desires : sexuality and African literature in the classroom / Neville Hoad
Confessions of a disinterested didact : teaching Nadine Gordimer's 'Burger's daughter' / R. Radhakrishnan
Creating contested space through the "nervous conditions" of postcolonial theories / Kimberly Wedeven Segall
Reading the popular : Onitsha Market romance and the practice of everyday life / Onookome Okome
