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As a very young man, one of the most celebrated English authors of the eighteenth century translated a tome about Ethiopia. This experience permanently marked Samuel Johnson, leaving traces of the African discourse he encountered in that text in his...

The work of Tunisian Jewish intellectual Albert Memmi, like that of many francophone Maghrebian writers, is often read as thinly veiled autobiography. Questioning the prevailing body of criticism, which continues this interpretation of most fiction...

Dissident Authorship in Mozambique: the Case of António Quadros is the first monograph on the literary works of the pennames of Portuguese poet and painter António Quadros (1933-1994). The book uses Quadros's quirky case-- a Portuguese man who lived in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173022Author Tayeb SalihFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

Decolonization and White Africans examines how African decolonization affected white Africans in eight countries - Algeria, Kenya, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Angola, Mozambique, South West Africa (Namibia), and South Africa...

Abdelkébir Khatibi (1938–2009) is one of the greatest Moroccan thinkers, and one of the most important theorists of both postcolonialism and Islamic culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book introduces his works to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789783603592Author Chin CeFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Handel BooksPublisher Handel BooksWeight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789987686292Author Mugyabuso M. MulokoziFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Mkuki na Nyota PublishersPublisher Mkuki na Nyota PublishersWeight(grams) 830g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956558292Author Joyce B. AshuntantangFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Langaa RPCIGPublisher Langaa RPCIGWeight(grams) 246g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779220363Author Robert MupondeFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Weaver PressPublisher Weaver PressWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789789181957Author Hakeem BelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Kraft BooksPublisher Kraft BooksWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

Unusable pasts; scandalous lives; political betrayal, confession and collaboration: reading narrative non-fiction across South Africa's unfinished transition. Over the last decades, South Africa has seen an outpouring of life writing and narrative...

In the years following the Mexican Revolution, a nationalist and masculinist image of Mexico emerged through the novels of the Revolution, the murals of Diego Rivera, and the movies of Golden Age cinema. Challenging this image were the Contemporaneos, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940729152Author Mary S LedererFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint African Heritage PressPublisher African Heritage PressWeight(grams)...

The distinguished South African scholar and critic Graham Pechey was one of the leading voices in the debates about literature's role in the apartheid state, and he continued to reflect influentially on its importance and function after the establishment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789783708570Author Chin CeFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Handel BooksPublisher Handel BooksWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789783703629Author Charles SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Handel BooksPublisher Handel BooksWeight(grams) 304g

This is the first critical monograph on Iraqi fiction, looking at the novel's coming of age in the 1950s Catherine Cobham and Fabio Caiani look in depth at a focussed number of authors who started writing in Iraq in or around the 1950s to explore a...

This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, including an enormous range of genres, in varying venues, and in multiple languages of the Caribbean...

South Africa is one of the countries in the world most affected by HIV/AIDS, and yet, until recently, the epidemic was barely visible in South African literature. Much can be gained from approaching the South African epidemic through creative texts such...

"Backgrounds and Criticism" presents documents on modern African drama generally and on the assembled texts and authors specifically, including little-known materials. Featured are essays on Tawfik al-Hakim, Kateb Yacine, Athol Fugard, Wole Soyinka,...

In the past few decades, Western studies of Afrofuturism have grown to encompass examples deriving from multiple sites across the diaspora, as well as from the African continent. However, an increasing number of Africans and Africanists have voiced their...

Since the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. It recounts the deeds of a hero-king of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788503375Author Simon B ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical LiteratureWeight(grams)...

Samba Gadjigo presents a unique personal portrait and intellectual history of novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembene. Though Sembene has persistently deflected attention away from his personality, his life, and his past, Gadjigo has had unprecedented...

Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis later moved to Lebanon and became a pivotal figure in the new poetry of the late 1960s. With the publication of Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs in 1963-widely viewed as a watershed moment in Arabic poetry-Adonis forged a new...

"Yesterday I lost a country," Dunya Mikhail writes in "The War Works Hard", a subversive, sobering work by an exiled Iraqi poet, and her first collection to appear in English. Compassionate, engaged and direct, Mikhail's is a voice that transcends...

It has been said that the difference between and language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. Both the act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious...

Ere Roosevelt Came is a short novel by early pan-Africanist Duse Mohamed Ali. Originally serialised in Ali's Nigerian magazine The Comet in 1934, it grapples with the rise of global fascism and white supremacy, and the growing geopolitical influence of...

". . . its pages come alive with wonderful illustrative material coupled with sensitve and insightful commentary." -Reviews in Anthropology" . . . the scope, breadth, and lucidity of this excellent study confirm that Okpewho is undoubtedly the most...

The Book of Songs of Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (AD 897-971) is the most extensive collection of anecdotes from pre-Islam Mecca, Medina, Damascus and Baghdad. Entertaining and informative, these gems have remained largely inaccessible to the Western...

This text takes a close look at eight Nigerian women writers and proposes a new vernacular theory based on their work. Flora Nwapa, Adaora Lily Ulasi, Buchi Emecheta, Funmilayo Fakunle, Ifeoma Okoye, Zaynab Alkali, Eno Obong and Simi Bedford are the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592217526Author Ghirmai NegashFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 415g

Winner 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...

Africa's strong tradition of storytelling has long been an expression of an oral narrative culture. African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka and J. M. Coetzee have adapted these older forms to develop and enhance the genre of...

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566566995Author Sahar KhalifehFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569021330Author Reesom HaileFormat PaperbackPage Count 115Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 187g

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...

Until fairly recently, critical studies and anthologies of African American literature generally began with the 1830s and 1840s. Yet there was an active and lively transatlantic black literary tradition as early as the 1760s. Genius in Bondage situates...