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Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six,...

In Conversation with Bessie Head shows how reading the novels and letters of Botswana's most influential writer, Bessie Head, fosters an ongoing conversation between reader and writer and is in fact a very personal undertaking. Each chapter tackles two...

This book demonstrates the insights that literature brings to transdisciplinary urban studies, and particularly to the study of cities of the South. Starting from the claim staked by mining capital in the late nineteenth century and its production of...

Narrating Human Rights in Africa claims human rights from the perspective of artists from the African continent and situates the key theoretical concepts in African perspectives, undercutting the stereotypes of victimhood and voicelessness. Instead of...

Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six,...

Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature is a critical study of environmental writing, covering a range of genres and generations of writers in Nigeria. With a sustained concentration on the Nigerian experience in postcolonial...

This book is an in-depth study of the category "stranger" as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference, NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and...

Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s robust...

This monograph explores the concept of mobility in Zimbabwean works of fiction published in English between the introduction of the controversial Fast Track Land Reform Programme and the end of the Mugabe era.Since 2000, Zimbabwe has experienced...

This book investigates the many ways in which contemporary African fiction has reflected on themes of responsibility and complicity during the postcolonial period.Covering the authors Ayi Kwei Armah, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nuruddin Farah, Michiel Heyns, and...

This book reflects on the "literary" in literature. Less ideologically construed, more affirmative of literary attachment, the study adopts a style of intimacy – its "tough love" – in a correlation between the creative work and the critical act. Instead...

Narrating Human Rights in Africa claims human rights from the perspective of artists from the African continent and situates the key theoretical concepts in African perspectives, undercutting the stereotypes of victimhood and voicelessness. Instead of...

This book deconstructs Eurocentric narratives and showcases local voices to re-examine childhood in Eastern Africa.Moving away from portrayals of eastern African childhood as characterised by want, the author argues for a differentiated and pluralist...

Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories discusses the oral life stories and poems that Africans, particularly the Yoruba people, have told about the self and community over hundreds of years.Disproving the Eurocentric argument that Africans...

The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media. The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. Arguing that writers are putting their...

examines the life and work of Mazisi Kuneneexplores how ‘oraliterature’ and cultural traditions informed Kunene’s poetrydraws on a range of interviews and comparative studies, the book situates Kunene’s work in a wider conversation about South African...

This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria's third-generation literature, which emerged between the late 1980s and the early 1990s and is marked by expressive modes and concerns distinctly different from those of the preceding era. ...

From xenophobic appropriations of Joan of Arc to Afro-futurism and cyberpunk, the "national" characters of the colonial era often seem to be dissolving into postnational and virtual subjects. In "Continental Drift," Emily Apter deftly...

This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora. In recent years a compelling array of critically acclaimed fiction by women in the West African diaspora has shifted...

This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers, Yaa Gyasi, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Adichie,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592213788Author Jose Arturo Saavedra CascoFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569021637Author Reesom HaileFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865434370Author Bernth LindforsFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 319g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954702380Author Vincent OdamttenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 253g

'The History of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is the chief work of the Arab philosopher and physician, Abu Bakr Ibn Tugail, and is thought by some to have been the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's classic work 'Robinson Crusoe'. Certainly it is one of the most important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438781Author Ernest EmenyonuFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 741g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438668Author Niyi OsundareFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955507953Author Helen N MugambiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 547g

Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent from the field of animal studies. The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics...

This volume, first published in 1978, looks at the fascinating literary links of the African diaspora in Harlem, Cuba and Haiti. Eldred Jones outlines in his Editorial the impact of the pride in connections with an African past as "one of the great...

This book explores the “battles” of words, songs, poetry, and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora. These are usually highly competitive, artistic contests in which rival parties duel for supremacy in poetry composition and/or its performance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474487566Author Katherine Isobel BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

When originally published in 1890, this work revealed for the first time, in collected form, the wealth of literary, traditional and historical writings produced by Arabic authors, in a text readily understood by the general reader. The passage of years...

Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing is the first book to bring rigorous literary, philosophical, and artistic discourse together to interrogate the ethics of governance and development in postcolonial Africa. It takes literature...

Publication of the seminal volume African Literature Comes of Age, by C.D. Narasimhaiah (India) and Ernest N. Emenyonu (Nigeria), in 1988 generated the consciousness that African literature had attained maturity by the evolution of diverse concerns among...

This book is a seminal study that significantly expands the interdisciplinary discourse on African literature and cinema by exploring Africa's under-visited carnivalesque poetics of laughter. Focusing on modern African literature as well as contemporary...

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...

examines the life and work of Mazisi Kuneneexplores how ‘oraliterature’ and cultural traditions informed Kunene’s poetrydraws on a range of interviews and comparative studies, the book situates Kunene’s work in a wider conversation about South African...

This Africa is both a literary history and a survey of the West African novel. Gleason explores seventeen novels in French and eight in English, developing a framework of literary criticism that includes the conqueror, the hero, city life, village life,...

First published in 1973, this volume of the series includes a tribute from the Editor to the poet Christopher Okigbo who died fighting in the Biafran War in 1967, and two articles on his poetry. Also discussed are Leopold Senghor, Dennis Brutus, Wole...