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In early 1900, the paths of three British writers-Rudyard Kipling, Mary Kingsley and Arthur Conan Doyle-crossed in South Africa, during what's become known as Britain's last imperial war. Each of the three had pressing personal reasons to leave England...

The place of the novel as a literary form in Africa is contested. Its colonial origins and its unaffordability for most Africans make it a bad fit for the continent, yet it was also central to the creation of most postcolonial African national literary...

This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clarify the origins of postcolonial dictatorships and explore the shape of the democratic-egalitarian alternatives. The first chapter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Amadou-Kourouma Prize 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781910213797Author Mbarek Ould BeyroukFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd

From the Introduction by Mohammed Sawaie:The Palestinian poets included in The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems represent different age groups and backgrounds, yet they all express a strong sense of "Palestinian-ness". They include Israeli citizens,...

The principal text translated in this volume is the Ta'rikh Al-sudan of the seventeenth-century Timbuktu scholar 'Abd al-Rah man al-Sa'di. Thirty chapters are included, dealing with the history of Timbuktu and Jenne, their scholars, and the political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949641073Author Iman MersalFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Two Lines PressPublisher Two Lines PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 150mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of English PEN Writers in Translation Award 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781905583669Author Hassan BlasimFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Comma PressPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872038155Author Al-BusiriFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Quilliam Press LtdPublisher Quilliam Press Ltd

In Syria, culture has become the critical line of defence against tyranny. Villagers have joined the cultural frontline alongside urban intellectuals, artists, writers and filmmakers and to create art and literature that challenge official narratives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905068609Author Osita OkagbueFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Adonis & Abbey Publishers LtdPublisher Adonis & Abbey Publishers LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595141Author Ghassan ZaqtanFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

The Babylonian flood story of Atra-hasis is of vital importance to ancient Near Eastern and biblical scholars, as well as students of history, anthropology, and comparative religion. Professors Lambert and Millard provide the reader with a detailed...

Arabs have traditionally considered classical Arabic poetry, together with the Qur'an, as one of their supreme cultural accomplishments. Taking a comparatist approach, Jaroslav Stetkevych attempts in this book to integrate the classical Arabic lyric into...

Yoruba Proverbs is the most comprehensive collection to date of more than five thousand Yoruban proverbs that showcase Yoruba oral tradition. Following Oyekan Owomoyela's introduction, which provides a framework and description of Yoruba cultural...

South Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural histories and experiences of its people. The Cambridge History offers a comprehensive, multi-authored...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956240170Author Jack MapanjeFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 429g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954702359Author Ken Saro-WiwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 220g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569020333Author Miguel F BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 338g

With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African...

This book examines the depiction of the Delta region of Nigeria through literature and other cultural art forms.The Niger Delta has been thrust into the global limelight due to resource extraction and conflict, but it is also a region with a rich...

Since her death in 1979, Jean Rhys's reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpretations from radically different critical perspectives; formalism, feminism, and postcolonial...

Science has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, is as riveting as what master storyteller Ngugi wa Thiong'o offers in The Upright Revolution. Blending myth and folklore with an acute...

Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is both a tragic and moving story of an individual set in the wider context of the coming of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981955711Author Mahmoud DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 153Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books

Ephrem the Syrian is the most important poet and theologian of the Syriac Christian tradition. His numerous hymns, homilies, and commentaries were highly influential for later generations, and his poetry continues to be broadly used in the liturgies of...

In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from...

A poetic 'voice' scans the rhythm of academic research, telling of the encounter with odun; then the voice falls silent. What is then raised is the dust of a forgotten academic debate on the nature of theatre and drama, and the following divergent...

While a great deal of postcolonial criticism has examined how the processes of hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, and syncretism impact African diasporic literature, Oakley employs the heuristic of the "commonplace" to recast our sense of the...

Since the early 1990s, about two thousand Idumean Aramaic ostraca have found their way into museums, libraries, and private collections. Four major publications covering some of these texts have appeared, three of which encompass the ostraca held by...

The deeds and struggles of Gilgamesh, legendary king of the city-state Uruk in the land of Sumer, have fascinated readers for millennia. They are preserved primarily in the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the most well-known pieces of Mesopotamian literature...

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...

Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature explores how normative ideas of sex and gender have shaped the development of Nigerian literature. Tracing this influence from the rise of mid-twentieth-century modernist writing to the contemporary appearance of...

Essays examining the poetry and leading poets of the Xhosa-speaking peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries The Xhosa-speaking peoples who settled along the south-eastern seaboard of South Africa promoted traditions of praise poetry...

Essays examining isiXhosa oral literature, novels and journalism and the interconnections between them in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Xhosa Literature: Spoken and Printed Words consists of fourteen essays addressing Xhosa literature in...

Honourable Mention in the 2023 British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize The Short Story after Apartheid offers the first major study of the anglophone short story in South Africa since apartheid's end. By focusing on the...

Akinwumi Isola (1940-2018), renowned writer, scholar, and sentinel of indigenous African languages, contributed to the development of Yoruba literary traditions by producing most of his literary works in Yoruba. His artistic pacesetting in Yoruba...

This issue of ALT provides content narratives, critical frames and theoretical constructs to read and critique writings in the emerging genre of Afrifuturism. In contrast to Afrofuturism, which explores the intersection of primarily Diaspora Black...

An examination of alternate imaginaries of 'the global' in post-millennium anglophone African literature and the differing forms of agency that these imaginaries produce.Irony, Agency and the Global Imaginary in Post-2000 Nigerian and Kenyan Literature...

The first study of Anglophone and Italian novels by Somali diasporic authors, offering a new critical framework for multilingual and transnational analysis of Somali literature.Building on the latest scholarship about multilingual contexts, diaspora...