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Archetypes of Transition in Diaspora Art and Ritual examines residually oral conventions that shape the black diaspora imaginary in the Caribbean and America. Colonial humanist violations and inverse issues of black cultural and psychological affirmation...

The representation of pain and suffering in narrative form is an ongoing ethical issue in contemporary South African literature. Can violence be represented without sensationalistic effects, or, alternatively, without effects that tend to be conservative...

Ghanaian novelist, essayist, and short-story writer Ayi Kwei Armah has won international recognition as one of Africa's most articulate writers. In this book, Ode Ogede argues that previous critics have misinterpreted the aesthetic and literary...

Much recent critical practice, sharpened by an engagement with theory, has questioned conventional notions about literature. There has been a tendency to democratize our understanding of literature, so as to include a wide range of cultural practices...

African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century examines contemporary fiction by African women authors to resonate diaspora perspectives on what it means to be African within transnational spaces. Through a critical...

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...

Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories discusses the oral life stories and poems that Africans, particularly the Yoruba people, have told about the self and community over hundreds of years.Disproving the Eurocentric argument that Africans...

The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe introduces readers to the life, literary works, and times of arguably the most widely-read African novelist of recent times, an icon, both in continental Africa and abroad. The book weaves together the story of Chinua...

VY Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism is the first English-language monograph dedicated to the work of Valentin Yves Mudimbe. This book charts the intellectual history of the seminal Congolese philosopher, epistemologist, and philologist from the late...

Singing the Law is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear within the pages of written literatures during the colonial and postcolonial periods. In examining these cultures, this book begins with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592218608Author Remi OmodeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 498g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592216093Author Toyin FalolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 747g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592211951Author Renee SchattemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 409g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592211234Author Sara Talis O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 548g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592213023Author Renee SchattemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 571g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569026687Author Bernth LindforsFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

This book works across established categories of modernism and postcolonialism in order to radically revise the periods, places, and topics traditionally associated with anti-colonialism and aesthetic experimentation in African literature. The book is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865435810Author G WilentzFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 816g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438460Author Niyi AfolabiFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 309g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865437678Author Joya UraizeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams)...

Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as 'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've written, a...

"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...

Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same. African...

This book addresses the ways in which writers deploy the trope of contested criminality to expose Zimbabwe's socially and politically oppressive cultures in a wide range of novels and short stories published in English between 1994 and 2016. Some of the...

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

Narrating Human Rights in Africa claims human rights from the perspective of artists from the African continent and situates the key theoretical concepts in African perspectives, undercutting the stereotypes of victimhood and voicelessness. Instead of...

Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six,...

Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature is a critical study of environmental writing, covering a range of genres and generations of writers in Nigeria. With a sustained concentration on the Nigerian experience in postcolonial...

This first ever full-length study of Ben Okri's life and work is based on twenty years of friendship and close attention to his texts. It argues that his writing is best appreciated against the background of his early exposure to the Nigerian Civil War...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592213788Author Jose Arturo Saavedra CascoFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569021637Author Reesom HaileFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 340g

A Map of Signs and Scents is a collection of sixty poems by an acclaimed poet whose life and work span Middle Eastern and Western worlds, centuries past and the vivid present, the sweep of history and the intimacy of love. Born in Jordan in 1955, Amjad...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865434370Author Bernth LindforsFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 319g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438781Author Ernest EmenyonuFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 741g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438668Author Niyi OsundareFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 222g

"If you really want to understand South Africa, read black African writers. Read Es'kia Mphahlele," is the advice proffered to diplomats and scholars by professor and publisher Donald Herdeck. The irony is that in the past, many of Mphahlele's works...

An exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally attributed to the Western imagination, science fiction is a literary genre that has expressed projected technological progress since...

How can traditions be subversive? The kinship between African traditions and novels has been under debate for the better part of a century, but the conversation has stagnated because of a slowness to question the terms on which it is based: orality vs...

Across contiguous nation-states in Eastern Africa, the geographic proximity disguises an ideological complexity. Land has meant something fundamental in the sociocultural history of each country. Those concerns, however, have manifested into varied...