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Edited Book or Journal Volume

Rettová, Alena, ed. (2016) Journal of African Cultural Studies. Special issue on African Philosophy. London: Taylor and Francis. (Volume 28, Issue 2)

Book Chapters

Rettová, Alena (2016) 'Comparative Literature and the Position of the Critic.' In: Loveday, Leo and Parpală, Emilia, (eds.), Ways of Being in Cultural and Literary Spaces. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 206-217.

Rettová, Alena (2016) 'Existentialism and Swahili Literature.' In: Beck, Rose Marie and Kresse, Kai, (eds.), Abdilatif Abdalla: Poet in Politics. Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, pp. 109-122.

Rettová, Alena (2016) 'From Mimesis to Mize. Philosophical Implications of Departures from Literary Realism.' In: Vierke, Clarissa and Greven, Katharina, (eds.), Dunia Yao. Utopia/Dystopia in Swahili Fiction. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, pp. 113-146. (Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages; 36)

Rettová, Alena (2016) 'La médialité et intermédialité du savoir en Afrique: le savoir philosophique entre tradition et modernité.' In: Festschrift to Elena Bertoncini Zúbková. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. (Forthcoming)

Rettová, Alena (2016) 'Novel in African Languages.' In: Gikandi, Simon, (ed.), Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 11 - The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 71-86.

Journal Article

Githiora, Chege (2016) 'Sheng: The Expanding Domains of an Urban Vernacular.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30 (2). pp. 105-120.

Rettová, Alena (2016) 'African philosophy as a radical critique [Editorial for Special Issue on African Philosophy].' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 28 (2). pp. 127-131.

Rettová, Alena (2016) 'Time as Myth, Time as History in Afrophone Novels on Ujamaa (Tanzanian Socialism) and the Second Chimurenga/Umvukela (Zimbabwean Liberation War).' Comparative Literature, 68 (4). pp. 389-407.

Rettová, Alena (2016) 'Writing in the Swing? Neo-Realism in Post-Experimental Swahili fiction.' Research in African Literatures, 47 (3). pp. 15-31.