Includes bibliography (pages [203]-220) and index.

Introduction: African-language literatures and popular arts: challenges and new approaches -- Proverbs in narratives: seeing the contemporary through archaic gazes in Aphelile Agambaqa and Impi YaboMdabu Isethunjini -- Nested narratives: 'Some are seated well, while others are not seated at all' -- Acts of naming: the detective plot in Masondo's fiction -- 'A world in creolization': inheritance politics and the ambiguities of a 'very modern tradition' in two Black South African TV dramas -- Thematic re-engagements in the television drama series Gaz' Lam and isiZulu literature -- 'It is not crime in the way you see it': Kuyoqhuma Nhlamvana's rewriting of Yizo Yizo's crime discourse and outlaw culture -- Conclusion.

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