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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 cartographies: 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 institutional 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.