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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

Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams explores the relationship between art and political power in society, taking as its starting point the experience of writers in contemporary Africa, where they are often seen as the enemy of the postcolonial state. This...

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...

Key study on writer and activist Kgositsile that presents a new approach to studying the radicalism of Africa and its diaspora and makes a major contribution to the histories of Black lives, gender studies, jazz studies, politics, and creativity. The...

A 10th century Iraqi took to collecting verse graffiti left behind by travellers. The result of his pastime was a little book that conjures up his nostalgic mood in a manner rarely attempted in Arabic literature. This work offers a translation of his...

A politically charged, hard-hitting and thought-provoking collection by one of Iraq's best-known poets, Adnan al-Sayegh. Throughout this collection, Adnan explores the exhausting struggle for acceptance after being forced into exile. Seemingly innocent...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952942641Author Shirley KaufmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Loki Books LtdPublisher Loki Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789198010107Author Ibraahin Yusuf AhmedFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint 978-91-980101-0-7Publisher 978-91-980101-0-7Weight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm)...

Making extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, from the earliest drafts and notebooks to the research notes and digital records that document his later career as both writer and...

Globalizing the Postcolony: Contesting Discourses of Gender and Development in Francophone Africa is a study of development in the former French colonies of West Africa. It takes as its starting point the international community's reporting on human and...

". . . 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...

In this book Hasan M. El-Shamy has gathered the first authentic new collection of modern Egyptian folk narratives to appear in nearly a century. El-Shamy's English translations of these orally presented stories not only preserve their spirit, but give...

This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers, Yaa Gyasi, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Adichie,...

In a groundbreaking study of contemporary Arab political poetry, Flagg Miller provides a wide range of insights into the ways that modern media aesthetics are shaped by language and culture. Investigating a vibrant audio-recording industry in southern...

Named a Notable African Book of 2023 by Brittle Paper The Beauty Hunters offers a rare insight into Sudanese Bedouin poetry, its evolution, aesthetics, and impact. Through an in-depth profile of al-Hardallo, the doyen of this art form, Adil Babikir...

This edition includes new material on the Arabic novel up to 1993. It is a survey of the Arabic novel and its development from its beginnings in the 19th century until today. It traces the origin, early cultivation and the mature period after World War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850771371Author W. A. CloustonFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Darf Publishers LtdPublisher Darf Publishers Ltd

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...

Undertaking a sustained interpretation of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's novels and short stories, this study focuses primarily on the ways in which his work depicts the clashing of Arab ideologies - that is, questions of tradition, modernity,...

Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering the period roughly of 500aEURO""1250 c.e., it features original translations and illuminating discussions of a...

J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the most critically acclaimed bestselling author of imaginative fiction writing in English today. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and is the first writer to have been awarded two Booker Prizes. The present...

The first English-language translation of a controversial Egyptian writerThe first English-language translation of a controversial Egyptian writerReviews"Written in 1977 and 1981, the novellas translated in this volume form a compelling unity and testify...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814259337Author Asha JeffersFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215791Author Asha JeffersFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472054190Author Evan Maina MwangiFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press

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...

An in-depth study of the Festival of India (1985–1986) in the United States, one of the biggest events ever mounted to promote goodwill between two countries. Comprising more than seven hundred programs of music, dance, drama, film shows, art...

Decolonisation can be pursued in different ways. After many years of developing a critical language to engage coloniality, the most urgent need in African theatre is to develop new theories and methods in our manufactories. This Element uses...

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) 467g

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)...