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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

A Map of Absence presents the finest poetry and prose by Palestinian writers over the last seventy years. Featuring writers in the diaspora and those living under occupation, these striking entries pay testament to one of the most pivotal events in...

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...

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...

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 exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and proliferates cultural differences. Abdessalam Benabdelali is a revered Moroccan philosopher and translator whose work maps an invaluable...

Complicities explores the complicated-even contradictory-position of the intellectual who takes a stand against political policies and ideologies. Mark Sanders argues that intellectuals cannot avoid some degree of complicity in what they oppose and that...

Postcolonialism has long been associated with post-nationalism. Yet, the persistence of nation-oriented literatures from within the African postcolony and its diasporas registers how dreams of national becoming endure. In this fascinating new study,...

Argues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an animist revision of psychoanalysis.Psychoanalytic trauma theory largely disregards African perspectives. Postcolonial criticism often filters...

At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Western-style parliamentary democracy, South Africans felt called upon to normalize their conceptions of economics, politics, and culture in line with these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916384036Author GibbonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams)...

'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.' As the history of many repressive regimes shows, this vital borderline has seldom been so clearly demarcated. Just...

West African Literatures provides students with fresh, in-depth perspectives on the key debates in the field. The aim of this book is not to provide an authoritative, encyclopedic account, but to consider a selection of the region's literatures in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810148512Author Abdelkebir KhatibiFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams)...