Academic Writing

Please stay tuned for pdfs of selected samples of my academic writing here. Click on the link to download the pdf. I welcome comments and feedback.

ARTICLES

McCain, Carmen “Chapter 24: Islam and Modernity” in Elias Kifon Bongmba, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

(The original title was “Islam and Modernity in Hausa Cultural Politics: A Cultural Overview”, but it got cut down by the editor to “Islam and Modernity” to better fit in with the format of other chapters in the book. The content of the chapter is reflected in the original title, which presents modernity in a historical Islamic Hausa context. I end with a discussion of Hausa film.)

McCain, Carmen, ‘FESPACO in a time of Nollywood: The politics of the ‘video’ film at Africa’s oldest festival,’ Journal of African Media Studies (2011) 3:2, pp. 241-261.

McCain, Carmen. “Reimagining Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq and Zainab Idris’s video-film Albashi,” in Fictions, Factions and African Creative Imaginations. Ed. Toyin Falola and Fallou Ngom. New York: Routledge, 2010. pp. 163-189

Please note that to read this scan more comfortably go to the view option of your pdf and select rotate clockwise. Also please note that there was some sort of editorial/proofreader’s error on my bibliography. I had submitted the bibliography in an abbreviated form, and the proofreader must have accidentally copied and pasted the wrong book when extending the citation. The following articles were cited to the wrong book in the publication. They should read as follows:

Stephens, Connie. 1991. “Marriage in the Hausa Tatsuniya Tradition: A Cultural and Cosmic Balance,” in Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century, ed. Catherine Coles and Beverly Mack, 221-231. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Sule, Balaraba B. M. and Priscilla E. Starratt. 1991. “Islamic Leadership Positions for Women in Contemporary Kano Society,” in in Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century, ed. Catherine Coles and Beverly Mack, 29-49. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

THESES

My very flawed MA thesis

McCain, Carmen. “Writing the Angel: Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel.” MA Thesis. Department of African Languages and Literature. University of Wisconsin, Madison. 2007.

McCain–Writing the Angel-Habila’s WfaA–MA thesis 2007