Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Contextualizing Popobawa
2. Voicing Expertise and Authority
3. Talk and Believe: How to Prevent a Popobawa Attack in Two Easy
Steps
4. The Butt of a Joke
5. Queering Popobawa
6. Women as Sexual and Discursive Agents
7. Batman in Africa
8. Global Metanarratives
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Katrina Daly Thompson is Professor and Director of the Program in African Languages in the Department of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is author of Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts (IUP).
Popobawa joins the ranks of zombies, witches and vampire studies of
Africa and proves that there is still more to say in the generative
discourses of the monstrous and mysterious if we are willing to
listen well.
*Journal of Modern African Studies*
A well-researched and well-documented addition to the body of
knowledge on local legends and their global manifestations.
*Journal of Folklore Research*
Thompson's movement between local and global discourses
demonstrates the importance of a phenomenon that could otherwise be
viewed as exotic ethnographic trivia, while her theoretical
orientation makes the text as relevant to linguistic
anthropologists as to African studies scholars. Especially
important is her understanding that marginalized individuals in
Zanzibar do offer social critique.
*African Studies Review*
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