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This book examines 21st-century South African autobiographical writing that addresses the nation's socio-political realities, both past and present. The texts in focus represent and depict a South Africa caught in the midst of contradictory and competing...

This book examines the representation of figures, memories and images of childhood in selected contemporary diasporic African fiction by Adichie, Abani, Wainaina and Oyeyemi. The book argues that childhood is a key framework for thinking about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956790166Author Bill F NdiFormat PaperbackImprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789785041422Author Ramonu SanusiFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Graduke PublishersPublisher Graduke PublishersWeight(grams) 245g

Shortlisted for the SAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2020 'Honorable Mention' for the ALA First Book Award - Scholarship 2021 A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing. Throughout the twentieth century, Nigerians...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956790814Author Hansel Ndumbe EyohFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 862g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789966250865Author Okumba MirukaFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint East African Educ. Publ.Publisher East African Educ. Publ.Weight(grams) 236g

For nearly a decade, writers' collectives such as Kwani Trust in Kenya and Femrite , the Ugandan women writers' association, have dramatically reshaped the East African literary scene. This text extends the purview of postcolonial literary studies by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789780230432Author Kanchana UgbabeFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Malthouse Press Ltd,NigeriaPublisher Malthouse Press Ltd,NigeriaWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789988550820Author Kofi Nyidevu AwoonorFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Sub-Saharan PublishersPublisher Sub-Saharan PublishersWeight(grams) 542g

This book considers the political potential of affective experiences of desire as reflected in contemporary South African literature. Jason Price argues that definitions of desire deployed by capitalist and colonial culture maintain social inequality by...

The highly-charged debate over Morocco's diasporic minorities in Europe has led to a growing interest in the literary production of these 'new' Europeans. This comparative study is the first to discuss together a body of texts, including contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788194963257Author S G EllerhoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Goa 1556Publisher Goa 1556Weight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956792993Author Adaku T AnkumahFormat PaperbackImprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960505149Author Pete EdochieFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Stillwater River PublicationsPublisher Stillwater River PublicationsWeight(grams) 204g

Throughout the twentieth century, Nigerians have been writing about their travels within Nigeria using a variety of media and forms, from serialised newspaper travelogues to personal diaries, autobiographies and online narratives. These works offer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789976973815Author Alain RicardFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Mkuki na Nyota PublishersPublisher Mkuki na Nyota PublishersWeight(grams) 244g

ALT 36 turns a "queer eye" on Africa, offering provocative (re-)readings of texts to position formerly erased sexualities and contemporary sexual expression among Africans on the continent, and abroad. Debates on the future of the African continent...

This book explores literary representations of African immigrant experiences in Western countries, against the backdrop of colonial stereotypes and recent expressions of anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and America. The book deploys the concept of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789976686388Author Aniceti KiterezaFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Mkuki na Nyota PublishersPublisher Mkuki na Nyota Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779340832Author Nyarai Maria KanyembaFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint African Books CollectivePublisher African Books CollectiveWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789783708556Author Chin CeFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Handel BooksPublisher Handel BooksWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779220042Author Robert MupondeFormat PaperbackImprint Weaver PressPublisher Weaver PressWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223626633Author Jorges P LopezFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Jorges P. LopezPublisher Jorges P. LopezWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789783503540Author Irene MarquesFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Handel BooksPublisher Handel BooksWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604975024Author Ilham MansurFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905758887Author Astrid Starck-AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Basler Afrika BibliographienPublisher Basler Afrika BibliographienWeight(grams)...

Including short stories from some of South Africa's best and most renowned writers (Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, and Alan Paton, to name only a few), this collection accompanies readers to a recent, but altogether different South Africa, reflecting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589837539Author Yoram CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical LiteratureWeight(grams) 406g

Originally published in 1923, this book by highly esteemed Orientalist Ernest Wallis Budge contains the Ethiopic text of the tale of Baralam and Yewasef, a Christianized version of the Buddhist legend of the Buddha and the Bodhisattva. The story was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781883686Author Manus O'DwyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088249161Author Shatavia SargentFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956558698Author Shadrach A. AmbanasomFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Langaa RPCIGPublisher Langaa RPCIGWeight(grams) 347g

Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789783503564Author C SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Handel BooksPublisher Handel BooksWeight(grams) 467g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956764624Author Bill F NdiFormat PaperbackImprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789987084968Author Shoonie HartwigFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Mkuki na Nyota PublishersPublisher Mkuki na Nyota PublishersWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956728299Author Shadrach A AmbanasomFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 458g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589837751Author Yoram CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical LiteratureWeight(grams) 573g

Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature examines the popular literary stereotype, the tragic mulatto, from a transnational perspective. Mafe considers the ways in which specific South African and American writers have used this...