Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: Linguistic (Re)turn and Craft in Contemporary African Literature -- Part I General Perspectives -- Towards a Stylistic Model for Analysing Anglophone African Literatures: Preliminary Epistemological Considerations and a Case Study -- Current Issues and Trends in African Verbal Stylistics: The Yoruba Example -- Part II Perspectives on Fiction -- Nnu Ego on the Verge of Feminist Consciousness: Feminist Stylistics and Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood -- Speaking the Unspeakable in Iweala and Kourouma: The Trauma of Child Soldiers, Literary Stylistics and Story Telling -- Autobiographical Memory and Identity Construction in Tayo Olafioye's Grandma's Sun -- Narratives of a Wounded Time: Yvonne Vera's Poetics of Trauma -- Carl de Souza's La maison qui marchait vers le large and the Multicultural Mauritian city -- A Stylistic Study of Metaphors in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart -- Part III Perspectives on Orature and Poetry -- Stylistic Features of Igbo Riddles -- On Stylistic Trends in Modern Swahili Poetry -- New Wine in Old Wineskins: Stylistic Provisions of Orature's Call and Response for Contemporary Discourses in Gikuyu Popular Music -- Acitivistic Undertones in the Music of Women: A Psychonalytic and Stylistic Reading of Agnes Mbuta's Dhiang' Othuwowa gi Chuo -- Chronotopes of the (Post-) Colonial Condition in Otjiherero Praise Poetry -- Metapoesis and 'the Art of Chameleons' in Steve Chimombo's Poetry -- Part IV Perspectives on Drama and Theatre -- Female Sexuality under the Male Gaze: Reading Style and Ideology in Bole Butake's The Rape of Michelle -- Figuration of 'troubled motherhood' and Feminization of the Ugandan Nation in John Ruganda's Plays1 -- Language and Meaning in Efo Mawugbe's In the Chest of a Woman.

Incantation as Discourse: A Discourse-Stylistic Study of the Confrontational Scene of Ola Rotimi's The Gods are Not to Blame -- Contributors.