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Nation-Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa by Dominic Thomas
RRP: £17.99£15.90What characterizes the relationship between literature and the state? Should literature serve the needs of the state by constructing national consciousness, espousing state propaganda, and molding good citizens? Or should it be dedicated to a different... -
The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction by M. A. Orthofer
RRP: £88.00£69.15This user-friendly resource is the perfect reference for English-language readers who are eager to explore fiction from around the world. Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, with an emphasis on fiction published in the past two... -
Chinua Achebe by Jago Morrison
RRP: £19.99£17.61Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as an author, broadcaster, editor and political thinker. With new, historically contextualised... -
Conditional Tense: Memory and Vocabulary after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Antjie Krog 9780857421746
RRP: £22.50£18.95When apartheid ended in 1994, a radiant national optimism suggested a bright future for the new, unified South Africa. But today, even in the midst of a vibrant economy, the cumulative effect of the country's corrosive past-three hundred years of... -
Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa: Literature Between Critique and Utopia by David Johnson
RRP: £20.99£19.25Focusing on well-known and obscure literary texts from the 1880s to the 1970s, as well as the many manifestos and programmes setting out visions of the future, this book charts the dreams of freedom of five major traditions of anti-colonial and... -
Zoe Wicomb & the Translocal: Writing Scotland & South Africa by Kai Easton
RRP: £39.99£35.06This is the first book on the fiction of Zoe Wicomb, a writer long at the forefront of the South African canon and whose international stature was firmly secured with the award of an inaugural Windham Campbell prize at Yale in 2013. It brings together... -
Politicising World Literature: Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public by May Hawas
RRP: £135.00£117.68Politicising World Literature: Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public engages with postcolonial and world literature approaches to examine the worldly imaginary of the novel genre and assert the political imperative to teaching world literature. How does... -
Ngugi wa Thiong'o by Simon Gikandi
RRP: £41.99£36.19Kenyan 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... -
ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today by Ernest N. Emenyonu
RRP: £19.99£17.61In 1965, Chinua Achebe, in his classic essay "The Novelist as Teacher", declared that the "African past - with all its imperfections - was not one long night of savagery from which the early Europeans acting on God's behalf, delivered them... -
Reading Nuruddin Farah - The individual, the novel & the idea of home by F. Fiona Moolla
RRP: £80.00£76.61The Somali novelist, Nuruddin Farah, is one of the most important African writers today. The central question that this book investigates is the relationship between modern identity and the novel as a genre. Nuruddin Farah's novels are shown by Moolla to... -
The Language of Fiction in a World of Pain: Reading Politics as Paradox by Barbara J. Eckstein
RRP: £22.99£18.37This book offers new and provocative readings of Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting, J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and Life and Times of Michael K, selected short fiction of Nadine Gordimer and Grace Paley, Ibuse Masuji's Black... -
African Literature and Social Change: Tribe, Nation, Race by Olakunle George
RRP: £23.99£20.84Alert to the ways in which critical theory and imaginative literature can enrich each other, African Literature and Social Change reframes the ongoing project of African literature. Concentrating on texts that are not usually considered together-writings... -
Reading Marechera by Grant Hamilton
RRP: £19.99£19.79Variously understood as literary genius and enfant terrible of African literature, Dambudzo Marechera's work as novelist, poet, playwright and essayist is discussed here in relation to other free-thinking writers. Considered one of Africa's most... -
Food and Foodways in African Narratives: Community, Culture, and Heritage by Jonathan Bishop Highfield
RRP: £135.00£117.28Food is a defining feature in every culture. Despite its very basic purpose of sustaining life, it directly impacts the community, culture and heritage in every region around the globe in countless seen and unseen ways, including the literature and... -
Written under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa Carli Coetzee 9781847012210
RRP: £65.00£61.81Winner of the 2021 ALA Book of the Year Award - Scholarship The author uses the image of blood under the skin as a way of understanding cultural and literary forms in contemporary South Africa. Chapters deal with the bloodied histories of apartheid and... -
Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa by Mark Sanders 9780691191461
RRP: £20.00£15.89"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu... -
The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction by M. A. Orthofer 9780231146753
RRP: £22.00£18.81This user-friendly resource is the perfect reference for English-language readers who are eager to explore fiction from around the world. Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, with an emphasis on fiction published in the past two... -
The Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989 Anouar El Younssi 9781032613666
RRP: £135.00£114.75The Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989 examines the trajectory of the Moroccan experimental novel and makes a link between its emergence in the early-mid 1970s and the Arab defeat in the six-day war with Israel in 1967.Drawing on works by... -
Nigeria's Third-Generation Literature: Content and Form Ode Ogede 9781032268439
RRP: £39.99£35.06This 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... -
The Epic Poetry of Mazisi Kunene: African Literature, Aesthetic, and Transatlantic Formulation Prof. or Dr. Dike Okoro 9781501398896
RRP: £90.00£76.50An interrogation of the poetry of Mazisi Kunene that places his work in the context of African literature and the richness of the oral tradition, as well as his political activism that connects him to the wider African diaspora. As Africa’s foremost epic... -
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction Eugen Bacon 9798765114667
RRP: £75.00£63.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765114667Author Eugen BaconFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History Dr. Toyin Falola 9798765118474
RRP: £21.99£18.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765118474Author Dr. Toyin FalolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
Forms of Mobility: Genre, Language, and Media in African Literary Cultures Stephanie Bosch Santana 9780810147690
RRP: £35.95£30.56Presents alternative categories of fiction through which to examine how contemporary writers have envisaged Africa’s changing literary terrains Stephanie Bosch Santana analyzes southern African writers’ experimentations with literary form in periodical... -
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction Eugen Bacon 9798765114674
RRP: £21.99£18.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765114674Author Eugen BaconFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
Literary Transactions in South Africa: A Politics of Interpretation Dr. or Prof. Michael Chapman 9798765122761
RRP: £90.00£76.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765122761Author Dr. or Prof. Michael ChapmanFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere: Texts, Spaces, Resonances Professor Elleke Boehmer 9781350360754
RRP: £75.00£63.75Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate South, Antarctica, this book asks how life writing from southerly compass points impact both how we understand and read life narratives, and... -
A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism: Come Back Babar Andrew Nyongesa 9781032772226
RRP: £135.00£114.75This book is response to the recent surge of formidable voices that consistently demean and attempt to reverse the gains of pan-Africanism. Besides questioning its relevance, these voices supplant essential tenets of pan-Africanism—Blackness, the... -
Thresholds: A ‘Complete’ Table of the Borrowings in Yambo Ouologuem’s Le Devoir de violence, and Why They Matter Christopher L. Miller 9781835532331
£81.61Recent research has revealed that the borrowings in Yambo Ouologuem’s epochal novel Le Devoir de violence (Bound to Violence) are far more extensive than was previously thought. Accused of plagiarism, Ouologuem quit the Parisian literary world and... -
Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere: Texts, Spaces, Resonances Professor Elleke Boehmer 9781350360808
RRP: £24.99£21.24Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate South, Antarctica, this book asks how life writing from southerly compass points impact both how we understand and read life narratives, and... -
Typologies of Humor in African Literatures Adwoa A Opoku-Agyemang 9780472077038
RRP: £60.00£51.00Typologies of Humor in African Literatures is a study on the use of humor and comedy in African literary texts across the twentieth century. Despite humor being omnipresent in African societies and their literatures, discussions of contemporary African... -
Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History Dr. Toyin Falola 9798765118467
RRP: £90.00£76.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765118467Author Dr. Toyin FalolaFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
The Swahili Novels of Tanzanian Women: Agency, Tradition, and Change Izabela Romańczuk 9781032835471
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book provides a rich and full analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their important contributions to the living Swahili literary and intellectual tradition.Compared to the diverse and centuries-old oral... -
Magical Realism in Africa: Literary and Dramatic Explorations Sarali Gintsburg 9781032613734
RRP: £135.00£114.75Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism from a transregional and inclusive approach, drawing on contributions from different literary genres across the continent.The chapters in... -
Milestones in African Literature Toyin Falola 9781032513270
RRP: £130.00£112.11Milestones in African Literature offers an accessible guide to ten key moments in African literature. It traces literature in Africa through forms and genres, as well as social and political changes.Toyin Falola embraces the richness of African... -
Chronicles of Darkness David Ward 9781032762852
RRP: £91.99£79.80First published in 1989, Chronicles of Darkness is about images of Africa seen through the eyes of writers, visitors, residents, and native-born. They range from Joseph Conrad and Olive Schreiner, through Laurens van der Post, Karen Blixen and Evelyn... -
Milestones in African Literature Toyin Falola 9781032513294
RRP: £35.99£31.69Milestones in African Literature offers an accessible guide to ten key moments in African literature. It traces literature in Africa through forms and genres, as well as social and political changes.Toyin Falola embraces the richness of African... -
Genres of Transition: Literature and Economy in Portuguese-Speaking Southern Africa Thomas Waller 9781835533994
£101.61This book argues that literary production in Portuguese-speaking southern Africa has developed distinctive aesthetic idioms that critically respond to crises of global capitalism and related failures of post-colonial governance. Drawing from recent... -
Time and Nature in the Poetry of Niyi Osundare: Poetics of Animism, Anthropocene, and Capitalocene Chukwunwike Anolue 9781032679693
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book provides an ecocritical analysis of the poetry of the famous Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare.The book interrogates the intricate interface between time and nature in 12 of Osundare’s defining poetry collections. This is a book of postcolonial... -
Typologies of Humor in African Literatures Adwoa A Opoku-Agyemang 9780472057030
RRP: £21.95£18.66Typologies of Humor in African Literatures is a study on the use of humor and comedy in African literary texts across the twentieth century. Despite humor being omnipresent in African societies and their literatures, discussions of contemporary African...