LONDON, England, April 12 -- The Journal of African Literature Association, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features oral, literary and related arts of Africa and the African Diaspora, published research articles on the following topics in its Vol. 17, No. 1 edition:

Research Articles:

* Belonging and freedom in Ernest Cole's The House of Bondage

* Blackness blurred: (un)belonging, kinship, and metissage in Marie NDiaye's Ladivine