Transition 96

by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kwame Anthony Appiah

This new issue of the award-winning journal on black and multicultural studies spotlights the first published excerpt from Tambu’s Choice, Tsitsi Dangarembga's first novel since her 1989 Commonwealth Prize-winning Nervous Conditions. There's also an interview with the reclusive author. Other features in this long-awaited issue include Caine Prize-winner Binyavanga Wainaina on "How to Be an African," and a compelling gallery of photographs taken during the filming of Hannah Rose Shell's documentary on the Haitian secondhand clothing industry, Textile Skin .

163 pages, Paperback

First published November 6, 2005

About the author

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is a Professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. He is well-known as a literary critic, an editor of literature, and a proponent of black literature and black cultural studies.

Reviews

[Richard]

In addition to the interview with Tsitsi Dangarembga, as well as an excerpt from her forthcoming novel Tambu’s Choice mentioned in the key note, this issue of TRANSITION includes Caine Prize-winner Binyavanga Wainaina on "How to Be an African" and photographs taken during the filming of Hannah Rose Shell's documentary on the Haitian secondhand clothing industry, “Textile Skin.”