REVIEWS

 

Nuruddin Farah: Selected bibliography

 

 

F. Fiona Moolla

Associate professor in the English Department, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa. She is the author of Reading Nuruddin Farah: The Individual, the Novel & the Idea of Home (James Currey, 2014). Email: fmoolla@uwc.ac.za; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7809-2222

 

 

NOVELS

Early novels

Farah, Nuruddin. From a Crooked Rib. Heinemann, 1970.         [ Links ]

_. A Naked Needle. Heinemann, 1976.         [ Links ]

The trilogies

Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship

Farah, Nuruddin. Close Sesame. Allison & Busby, 1983        [ Links ]

_. Sardines. Allison & Busby, 1981.         [ Links ]

_. Sweet and Sour Milk. Allison & Busby, 1979.         [ Links ]

Blood in the Sun

Farah, Nuruddin. Gifts. Serif, 1993.         [ Links ]

_. Maps. Pantheon, 1986.         [ Links ]

_. Secrets. Arcade, 1998.         [ Links ]

Past Imperfect

Farah, Nuruddin. Crossbones. Riverhead, 2011.         [ Links ]

_. Knots. Riverhead, 2007.         [ Links ]

_. Links. Gerald Duckworth, 2005.         [ Links ]

In the Belly of the Gerenuk or Somalis, In Other Words (Provisional titles) Farah, Nuruddin. Hiding in Plain Sight. Riverhead-Penguin, 2014.

_____ . North of Dawn. Riverhead, 2018.         [ Links ]

PLAYS

The Offering is the only play by Farah that has been published to date.

Farah, Nuruddin. The Offering. Lotus (Afro-Asian Writings) vol. 30, no. 4, 1976, pp. 77-93.         [ Links ]

SHORT STORIES

Farah, Nuruddin. "The Start of the Affair." The Picador Book of African Stories, edited by Stephen Gray. Picador, 2000, pp. 143-9.         [ Links ]

_. "My Father, the Englishman, and I." Under African Skies: Modern African Short Stories, edited by Charles R. Larson. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1997.         [ Links ]

_. "Why Dead So Soon." Somali News, 1965.         [ Links ]

NONFICTION

Farah, Nuruddin. Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora. Cassell, 2000.         [ Links ]

ESSAYS

Autobiographical and literary

Farah, Nuruddin. "Celebrating Differences: The 1998 Neustadt Lecture." Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 15-24.         [ Links ]

_. "Childhood of My Schizophrenia." Times Literary Supplement, 23-29 Nov. 1990, p. 1264.         [ Links ]

_. "A Country in Exile." WorldLiteratureToday vol. 72, no. 4, 1998, pp. 713-5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/40154257.         [ Links ]

_. "The Creative Writer and the Politician." The Classic vol. 3, no. 1, 1984, pp. 27-30.         [ Links ]

_. "Do Fences Have Sides?" The Commonwealth in Canada: Proceedings of the Second Triennial Conference of CACLALS, Part 2, edited by Uma Parameswaran, Writers' Workshop, 1983, pp. 174-82.         [ Links ]

_. "Do You Speak German?!" Okike: An African Journal of New Writing vol. 22, 1982, pp. 33-8.         [ Links ]

_. "Germany-And All That Jazz." Okike: An African Journal ofNew Writing vol. 18, 1981, pp. 8-12.         [ Links ]

_. "Ibsen, In Other Words." Nordlit vol. 34, 2015, pp. 15-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3350.         [ Links ]

_. "In Praise of Exile." Literature in Exile, edited by John Glad. Duke U P, 1990, pp. 64-77.         [ Links ]

_. "Savaging the Soul of a Nation." The Writer in Politics, edited by William Glass & Lorin Cuoco. Southern Illinois U P, 1996, pp. 110-5.         [ Links ]

_. "Why I Write." Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 1-13.         [ Links ]

Social and political

Farah, Nuruddin. "Bastards of Empire." Transition vol. 65, 1995, pp. 26-35.         [ Links ]

_. "Centuries-long War for Somali Peninsula." WardheerNews. 12 Apr. 2018. wardheernews.com/centuries-long-war-for-somali-peninsula/.         [ Links ]

_. "Country Cousins." London Review of Books. 3 Sep. 1998, pp. 19-20.         [ Links ]

_. "False Accounting." Granta vol. 49, 1994, pp. 171-81.         [ Links ]

_. "My Life as a Diplomat." The New York Times. 26 May 2007. www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/opinion/26farah.html.         [ Links ]

_. "Of Tamarind and Cosmopolitanism." African Cities Reader, edited by Ntone Edjabe & Edgar Pieterse. Chimurenga, 2010, pp. 178-81.         [ Links ]

_. "People of a Half-Way House." London Review of Books. 21 Mar. 1996, pp. 19-20.         [ Links ]

_. "Praise the Marines? I Suppose So." New York Times. 28 Dec. 1992, pp. 14-7.         [ Links ]

_. "The Family House." Transition vol. 99, 2008, pp. 6-15.         [ Links ]

_. "The Women of Kismayo." Times Literary Supplement. 15 Nov. 1996, p. 18.         [ Links ]

_. "Which way to the Sea, Please?" Horn of Africa vol. 1, no. 4, 1978, pp. 31-6. Republished by WardheerNews. 4 Mar. 2015.         [ Links ]

INTERVIEWS

Published

Alden, Patricia & Louis Tremaine. "How Can We Talk of Democracy? An Interview with Nuruddin Farah." Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 25-46.         [ Links ]

Appiah, Kwame Anthony. "Nuruddin Farah." Bomb Magazine, 1 Apr. 2004. bombmagazine.org/articles/nuruddin-farah/.         [ Links ]

Farah, Nuruddin. "Nuruddin Farah and Binyavanga Wainana in Conversation." Rift Valley Forum's Nairobi Institute in partnership with Kwani Trust. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbNkuztZ8s.         [ Links ]

Garuba, Harry. "Nuruddin Farah: Long Road to Freedom." The Independent. 11 Mar. 2005.         [ Links ]

_. "Dreaming on Behalf of the Community: A Conversation with Nuruddin Farah." Boundary 2 vol. 44, no. 2, 2017, pp. 1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-3826600.         [ Links ]

Gray, Stephen. "Nuruddin Farah." Indaba: Interviews with African Writers, by Stephen Gray. Protea, 2005, pp. 179-92.         [ Links ]

Jaggi, Maya. "A Combining of Gifts: An Interview." Third World Quarterly vol. 11, no. 3, 1989, pp. 171-87.         [ Links ]

Jonas, Maggie. "Farah-Living in a Country of the Mind." New African, Dec. 1987, pp. 60-1.         [ Links ]

Jussawalla, Feroza F. & Reed Way Dasenbrock. "Nuruddin Farah." Interviews with Writers of the Post-colonial World, edited by Feroza F. Jussawalla & Reed Way Dasenbrock. U P of Mississippi, 1992, pp. 42-62.         [ Links ]

Moss, Robert. "Mapping the Psyche." West Africa. 1 Sep. 1986, pp. 1827-8.         [ Links ]

Niemi, Minna. "Witnessing Contemporary Somalia from Abroad: An Interview with Nuruddin Farah." Callaloo vol. 35, no. 2, 2012, pp. 330-40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2012.0056.         [ Links ]

Pajalich, Armando. "Nuruddin Farah: Interviewed by Armando Pajalich." Kunapipi vol. 15, no. 1, 1993, pp. 61-71.         [ Links ]

YouTube videoclip interviews

Boundary 2 journal. "Boundary 2 presents: A Reading and Conversation with Nuruddin Farah." YouTube. 28 Nov. 2018. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ngsh-3mnaU.         [ Links ]

Campus TV India. "USOL 4^th Convocation address by world renowned author Prof. Nuruddin Farah." YouTube. 3 Apr. 2017. www.youtube.corn/watch?v=DadfH6SD4hQ.         [ Links ]

Detroit Public TV. "Nuruddin Farah on his novel, Hiding in Plain Sight in Miami." YouTube. 25 Nov. 2014. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgEYggY0oIg.         [ Links ]

ModernLitCollection. "Somalian writer Nuruddin Farah speaks at the International Writers Center conference, 'The Writer in Politics: Under Politics with a Politics', 20 Oct. 1992." YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib3emyf4Les.         [ Links ]

Rift Valley Institute. "Nuruddin Farah in conversation with Tom Odhiambo." YouTube. 14 May 2014. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsPYiltC5OA.         [ Links ]

_. "Nuruddin Farah in conversation with Binyavanga Wainaina." YouTube. 15 May 2013. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbNkuztZ8s.         [ Links ]

SOFHeyman. "Princeton Professor K. Anthony Appiah interviewed African novelist Nuruddin Farah about his recently released novel, 'Knots'." YouTube. 21 Feb. 2007. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY1Xh9hHK-E.         [ Links ]

Somali Writers Collective. "Nuruddin Farah interview at the Commonwealth Club of California." YouTube. 24 Aug. 2010. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM3DfxDQMFk.         [ Links ]

The Loft Literary Centre. "Nuruddin Farah at the Loft." YouTube. 13 Nov. 2013. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTQIS3JFfZk.         [ Links ]

UNICEF Innocenti. "Challenges for women & children in Somalia: Discussing education and conflict with Nuruddin Farah." YouTube. 24 Jan. 2014. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBwf87W2CnM.         [ Links ]

CRITICISM

Monographs and edited volumes

Alden, Patricia & Louis Tremaine. Nuruddin Farah. Twayne, 1999.         [ Links ]

Masterson, John. The Disorder ofThings: A Foucauldian Approach to the Work ofNuruddin Farah. Wits U P, 2013.         [ Links ]

Moolla, F. Fiona. Reading Nuruddin Farah: The Individual, the Novel and the Idea of Home. James Currey, 2014.         [ Links ]

Wright, Derek. The Novels ofNuruddin Farah. Breitinger, 2004.         [ Links ]

Wright, Derek, ed. Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah. Africa World P, 2002.         [ Links ]

Articles and chapters in books

Adam, Ian. "The Murder of Soyaan Keynaan." Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, 331-44.         [ Links ]

_. "Nuruddin Farah and James Joyce: Some Issues of Intertextuality." World Literature Written in English vol. 24, no. 1, 1984, pp. 34-43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449858408588868.         [ Links ]

Ahmed, Ali Jimale. "The Arab Factor in Somali Culture: The Rise of the Novel in Somalia and Djibouti." Journal of Somali Studies vol. 1, no. 2, 2014, pp. 9-38.         [ Links ]

_. Daybreak is Near Literature, Clans and the Nation-state in Somalia. Red Sea, 1996.         [ Links ]

Alden, Patricia. "New Women and Old Myths: Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah and Nuruddin Farah's Sardines." Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 359-80.         [ Links ]

Alden, Patricia & Louis Tremaine. "Reinventing Family in the Second Trilogy of Nuruddin Farah." World Literature Today vol. 72, no. 4, 1998, pp. 759-66. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/40154267.         [ Links ]

Alidou, Ousseina. "Boundaries of Fatherhood in Nuruddin Farah's Secrets." Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 661-80.         [ Links ]

Alidou, Ousseina & Alamin Mazrui. "Secrets: Farah's 'Things Fall Apart.'" Research in African Literatures vol. 31 no. 1, 2000, pp. 122-8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ral.2000.0002.         [ Links ]

Andindilile, Michael. "English, Cosmopolitanism and the Myth of National Linguistic Homogeneity in Nuruddin Farah's Fiction." Forumfor Modern Language Studies vol. 50, no. 3, 2014, pp. 256-74. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqu025.         [ Links ]

Appiah, Kwame Anthony. "For Nuruddin Farah." World Literature Today vol. 72, no. 4, 1998, pp. 703-5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/40154254.         [ Links ]

Bardolph, Jacqueline. "Brothers and Sisters in Nuruddin Farah's Two Trilogies." World Literature Today vol. 72, no. 4, 1998, pp. 727-32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/40154262.         [ Links ]

_. "Dreams and Identity in the Novels of Nuruddin Farah." Research in African Literatures vol. 29 no. 1, 1998, pp. 163-73.         [ Links ]

_. "On Nuruddin Farah." Research in African Literatures vol. 31, no. 1, 2000, pp. 119-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2000.31.1.119.         [ Links ]

_. "Time and History in Nuruddin Farah's Close Sesame!" Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 399-418.         [ Links ]

Brown, Michelle Lynn. "Bleeding for the Mother (Land): Reading Testimonial Bodies in Nuruddin Farah's Maps." Research in African Literatures vol. 41, no. 4, 2010, pp. 125-43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.2010.4L4.125.         [ Links ]

Bystrom, Kerry. "Humanitarianism, Responsibility, Links, Knots!" Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies vol. 16, no. 3, 2014, pp. 405-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801x.2013.798141.         [ Links ]

Caminero-Santangelo, Byron. "The Nature of African Environmentalism." Different Shades of Green: African Literature, Environmental Justice, and Political Ecology, by Byron Caminero-Santangelo. U of Virginia P, 2014, pp. 36-74.         [ Links ]

Carbonieri, Divanize. "'Please Do Not Judge Us Too Harshly!'-The Exile's Return to Contemporary Somalia in Links by Nuruddin Farah." Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture vol. 36, no. 1, 2014, pp. 83-91. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v36i1.19340.         [ Links ]

Cheah, Peng. "Resisting Humanitarianization." A chapter on Gifts in What is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature!" Duke U P, 2016, pp. 278-309.         [ Links ]

Cingal, Guillaume. "Self and Identity in the Blood in the Sun Trilogy." Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 431-48.         [ Links ]

Cobham, Rhonda. "Misgendering the Nation: African Nationalist Fictions and Nuruddin Farah's Maps!" Nationalisms and Sexualities, edited by Andrew Parker et al. Routledge, 1992, pp. 42-59.         [ Links ]

Cochrane, Judith. "The Theme of Sacrifice in the Novels of Nuruddin Farah." World Literature Written in English vol. 18, 1979, pp. 69-77. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449857908588585.         [ Links ]

Colmer, Rosemary. "Territories of Pain." International Literature in English: Essays on the Major Writers, edited by Robert L. Ross. St. James P, 1991, pp. 131-42.         [ Links ]

_. "'This is a Pen': Writing in Maps!" Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 495-508.         [ Links ]

Colson, Robert L. "The Performance of Madness as Resistance in Nuruddin Farah's Close Sesame!" Ariel vol. 46, no. 4, 2015, pp. 1-36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ari.2015.0034.         [ Links ]

Crowley, Dustin. "Cosmopolitan Somalia: Place and Identity in Farah's Maps and Links!" Africa's Narrative Geographies: Charting the Intersections of Geocriticism and Postcolonial Cities, by Dustin Crowley. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. 101-28.         [ Links ]

Currey, James. "Publishing Nuruddin Farah." Africa Writes Back: The African Writer's Series and the Launch of African Literature, by James Currey. James Currey, 2008, pp. 154-68.         [ Links ]

Dasenbrock, Reed Way. "Nuruddin Farah: A Tale of Two Trilogies." Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 49-66.         [ Links ]

Dhar, Tej N. "Manufacturing Skin for Somalia's History: Nuruddin Farah's Deep Hurt in Links!" New Novels in African Literature Today: A Review. African Literature Today 27, edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu. James Currey, 2010, pp. 103-16.         [ Links ]

Dietche, Julie Phelps. "Alas, No Answer: Structure as Theme in Nuruddin Farah's Maps!" Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 545-58.         [ Links ]

Dodgson-Katiyo, Pauline. "The 'Rubble' & the 'Secret Sorrows': Returning to Somalia in Nuruddin Farah's Links and Crossbones!" African Literature Today vol. 34, 2016, pp. 67-81.         [ Links ]

Eldridge, Michael. "Out of the Closet: Farah's Secrets!" Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 637-60.         [ Links ]

Eruvbetine, A. E. & Solomon Omatsola Azumurana. "Melancholia and the Search for the Lost Object in Farah's Maps." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde vol. 54, no. 1, 2017, pp. 142-57. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17159/tvl.v.54i1.9.         [ Links ]

Ewen, D. R. "Nuruddin Farah." The Writing of East and Central Africa, edited by G. D. Killam. Heinemann, 1984, pp. 192-210.         [ Links ]

Gagiano, Annie. "Appreciating Nuruddin Farah's Secrets." English Academy Review vol. 16, 1999, pp. 91-100. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.1999.10384460.         [ Links ]

_. "Farah's Sardines: Women in a Context of Despotism." Africa Today vol. 57, no. 3, 2011, pp. 3-20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/africatoday.57.3.3.         [ Links ]

_. "Farah's Sweet and Sour Milk: The Noise in the Dictator's Ear." Dealing with Evils: Essays on Writing from Africa, 2^nd ed., by Annie Gagiano. Ibidem, 2014, pp. 225-47.         [ Links ]

_. "Surveying the Contours of 'a Country in Exile': Nuruddin Farah's Somalia." African Identities vol. 4, no. 2, 2006, pp. 251-68. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14725840600761195.         [ Links ]

Garuba, Harry. "Mapping the Land/Body/Subject: Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies in African Narrative." Alternation vol. 9, no. 1, 2002, pp. 87-116.         [ Links ]

_. "No-Man's Land: Nuruddin Farah's Links and the Space of Postcolonial Alienation." Literary Landscapes: From Modernism to Postcolonialism, edited by Attie de Lange, Gail Fincham, Jeremy Hawthorn & Jakob Lothe. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. 180-97.         [ Links ]

_. "Teacherly Texts: Imagining Futures in Nuruddin Farah's Past Imperfect Trilogy." Boundary 2 vol. 44, no. 2, 2017, pp. 15-30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-3826609.         [ Links ]

Gikandi, Simon. "Nuruddin Farah and Postcolonial Textuality." World Literature Today vol. 72, no. 4, 1998, pp. 753-8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/40154266.         [ Links ]

_. "The Politics and Poetics of National Formation: Recent African Writing and Maps!" Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 449-68.         [ Links ]

Gorlier, Claudio. "Mystery and Madness in Close Sesame." Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 419-30.         [ Links ]

_. "Nuruddin Farah's Italian Domain." World Literature Today vol. 72, no. 4, 1998, pp. 781-5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/40154270.         [ Links ]

Gugler, Josef. "African Literary Comment on Dictators: Wole Soyinka's Plays and Nuruddin Farah's Novels." Journal of Modern African Studies vol. 26, no. 1, 1988, pp. 171-7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00010405.         [ Links ]

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. "Nuruddin Farah's Gifts." Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 611-4.         [ Links ]

Hand, Felicity. "Negotiating Boundaries in the Horn of Africa: Women in the Fiction of Nuruddin Farah." Borderlands: Negotiating Boundaries in Post-Colonial Writing, edited by Monika Reif-Hulser. Rodopi, 1999, pp. 115-22.         [ Links ]

Hawley, John C. "Nuruddin Farah: Tribalism, Orality and Postcolonial Ultimate Reality and Meaning in Contemporary Somalia." Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 67-94.         [ Links ]

Juraga, Dubravka. "Nuruddin Farah's Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship: Patriarchy, Gender and Political Oppression in Somalia." Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 283-308.         [ Links ]

Kapteijns, Lidwien. "Nuruddin Farah's Gifts." African Novels in the Classroom, edited by M. J. Hay, Lynne Rienner, 2000, pp. 145-52.         [ Links ]

_. Review of Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora. International Journal of African Historical Studies vol. 33, no. 2, 2000, pp. 384-6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/220664.         [ Links ]

Kazan, Francesca. "Recalling the Other Third World: Nuruddin Farah's Maps." Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 469-94.         [ Links ]

Kelly, Hilarie. "A Somali Tragedy of Political and Sexual Confusion: A Critical Analysis of Nuruddin Farah's Maps."Ufahamu vol. 16, no. 2, 1988, pp. 21-37.         [ Links ]

Mari, Lorenzo. "Tabula Rasa and Fiction: Representations of Mogadishu during the Conflict (2002-2011)." Afrika-Raum-Literatur: Fiktionale Geographien/Africa-Space-Literature: Fictional Geographies, edited by Bruno Arich-Gerz, Kira Schmidt & Antje Ziethen, Gardez!, 2014, pp. 125-49.         [ Links ]

Mazrui, Alamin. "Mapping Islam in Farah's Maps'" The Marabout and the Muse: New Approaches to Islam in African Literature, edited by Kenneth W. Harrow. Heinemann, 1996, pp. 205-17.         [ Links ]

Mazrui, Alamin. "Secrets: The Somali Dispersal and Reinvented Identities." Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 615-36.         [ Links ]

McDowell, Robert. "Nuruddin Farah." African Writers, edited by C. Brian Cox, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997, pp. 249-62.         [ Links ]

Medugno, Marco. "A Contested Spatiality: The Representation of Mogadishu in Somali Anglophone and Italian Literature." Italian Studies in Southern Africa vol. 31, no. 1, 2018, pp. 110-34.         [ Links ]

_. "The Distinctive Use of the Italian Language in Nuruddin Farah's Late Production." From the European South vol. 3, 2018, pp. 71-84.         [ Links ]

Merrington, Peter. "Review of Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora, by Nuruddin Farah." The English Academy Review vol. 19, 2002, pp. 109-12.         [ Links ]

Mirmotahari, Emad. "Revisiting Farah's From a Crooked Rib." Islam in the Eastern African Novel, by Emad Mirmotahari. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 123-39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119291.         [ Links ]

Mnthali, Felix. "Autocracy and the Limits of Identity: A Reading of the Novels of Nuruddin Farah." Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 175-96.         [ Links ]

Moolla, F. Fiona. "Love in a State of Fear: Reflections on Intimate Relations in Nuruddin Farah's Dictatorship Novels." Journal of the African Literature Association vol. 10, no. 1, 2016, pp. 118-30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2016.1199347.         [ Links ]

_. "When Orature Becomes Literature: Somali Oral Poetry and Folk Tales in Somali Novels." Comparative Literature Studies vol. 49, no. 3, 2012, pp. 434-62. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.49.3.0434.         [ Links ]

Moore, Gerald. "Maps and Mirrors." Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 509-20.         [ Links ]

Moore, Gerald. "Nomads and Feminists: The Novels of Nuruddin Farah." Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright. Africa World P, 2002, pp. 155-74.         [ Links ]

Myers, Garth. African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice. Zed, 2011. [Large sections of this book consider Farah's representations of Mogadishu.         [ Links ]]

Mzali, Ines. "Wars of Representation: Metonymy and Nuruddin Farah's Links." College Literature vol. 37, no. 3, 2010, pp. 84-105. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.0.0124.         [ Links ]

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