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With the expansion of trade and empire in the early modern period, the status of sugar changed from expensive rarity to popular consumer commodity, and its real and imagined properties functioned as central metaphors for the cultural desires of West...

Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott is one of the Caribbean's most famous writers. His unique voice in poetry, drama and criticism is shaped by his position at the crossroads between Caribbean, British and American culture and by his interest in hybrid...

Jean Rhys has long been central to debates in feminist, modernist, Caribbean, British and postcolonial writing. Elaine Savory's study, first published in 1999, incorporates and modifies previous critical approaches and is a critical reading of Rhys's...

Kenyan dramatist and novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a hugely influential African writer respected not only for his creative work but also for his criticism of wider cultural issues - issues such as nation and narration, power and performance, language and...

Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe-author of Things Fall Apart, one of the towering works of twentieth-century fiction-is considered the father of modern African literature. The equally revered Toni Morrison, author of masterworks such as Beloved and one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253816Author Mark McKinneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

The 1887 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica contained an extensive article on Syriac Literature by the late Professor W. Wright. The article was later reprinted in this book, with additional notes.Book InformationISBN 9780971309753Author William...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252956Author Cheikh ThiamFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256602Author PH D April C E LangleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism. In this 10th anniversary volume, first published in 1979,...

This collection of essays provides an imaginative international perspective on ways to incorporate black British writing and culture in the study of English literature, and presents theoretically sophisticated and practical strategies for doing so. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967951140Author Dike OkoroFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Cissus World PressPublisher Cissus World PressWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979085857Author Safoura Salami-BoukariFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint African Heritage Press,USPublisher African Heritage Press,USWeight(grams) 401g

This subtle novel by one of Egypt's increasingly eminent writers concerns Egyptian society under the Sadat regime. Khalil Mansour, an intellectual once imprisoned for political activism and now seeking to withdraw, is reluctantly involved in a strike by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252130Author Anne W GulickFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813947112Author Christopher N OkonkwoFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams)...

Examines literature and art to reveal the German genocidal gaze in Africa and the Holocaust.The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904-1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they...

This book studies a broad and ambitious selection of contemporary South African literature, fiction, drama, poetry, and memoir to make sense of the ways in which these works 'remap' the intersections of memory, space/place, and the body, as they explore...

The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism. This volume, first published in 1984, studies the attraction...

The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism. The intention of the African Literature Today series [ALT]...

Examines literature and art to reveal the German genocidal gaze in Africa and the Holocaust. The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904-1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where...

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 9780814256633Author Maha MarouanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

'A people who do not preserve their memory are a people who have forfeited their history.' So argues Wole Soyinka, in his book The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness, and this provides the overarching thematic concept for African pasts as a whole...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252673Author Dr Vivian Nun HalloranFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257470Author Pallavi RastogiFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256251Author Lyndon J DominiqueFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Today, the ""fight to write""-the struggle to become the legitimate chronicler of one's own story-is being waged and won by women across mediums and borders. But such battles of authorship extend well beyond a single cultural moment.In her gripping study...

Today, the ""fight to write""-the struggle to become the legitimate chronicler of one's own story-is being waged and won by women across mediums and borders. But such battles of authorship extend well beyond a single cultural moment.In her gripping study...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780797495470Author Andrew NyongesaFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Mwanaka Media and PublishingPublisher Mwanaka Media and PublishingWeight(grams)...

With the expansion of trade and empire in the early modern period, the status of sugar changed from expensive rarity to popular consumer commodity, and its real and imagined properties functioned as central metaphors for the cultural desires of West...

Previous studies of African poetry have tended to concentrate either on its political content or on its relationship to various European schools. This book examines West African poetry in English and French against the background of oral poetry in the...

During the nineteen years of her play-writing career, Aphra Behn had far more new plays staged than anyone else. This book is the first to examine all her theatrical work. It explains her often dominant place in the complex theatrical culture of Charles...

This collection of essays by one of Africa's leading scholars examines African literary traditions in the broad sense, and places the work of individual authors in context. Here F. Abiola Irele presents probing critical readings of the works of Chinua...

Through an engaged analysis of writers such as Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Niyi Osundare, and Tanure Ojaide and of African traditional oral poets like Omoekee Amao Ilorin and Mamman Shata Katsina, Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah develops an African indigenous...

Africa's history has been misrepresented by the outside world, especially by the Judeo-Christian West. An awareness of such a bias in historiographical discourse explains much of the difficulty Africans and peoples of African descent have in formulating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911412304Author Kipkeny LagatFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dolman ScottPublisher Dolman ScottWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 12mm

In Losing the Plot, well-known scholar and writer Leon de Kock offers a lively and wide-ranging analysis of postapartheid South African writing which, he contends, has morphed into a far more fl exible and multifaceted entity than its predecessor.If...

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives - historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading...