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Nineteenth-century European representations of Africa are notorious for depicting the continent with a blank interior. But there was a time when British writers filled Africa with landed empires and contiguous trade routes linked together by a network of...

Disputing the claim that Algerian writing during the struggle against French colonial rule dealt almost exclusively with revolutionary themes, The Algerian New Novel shows how Algerian authors writing in French actively contributed to the experimental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878311798Author Rose Ure MezuFormat PaperbackImprint Black Academy PressPublisher Black Academy PressWeight(grams) 345g

In Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas, author Christopher Ian Foster analyzes increasingly urgent questions regarding crises of global immigration by redefining migration in terms...

A detailed discussion by the editor complements this critical edition and translation of the phonetical treatise (Pratisakhya) of the Saunaka Samhita, one of two versions of the second oldest Indian text, the Saunaka Atharvaveda. This re-evaluation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865436596Author Edris MakwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 427g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932415479Author Taddesse AderoFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 303g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780869754962Author G.E. de VilliersFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ravan Press (Pty) LtdPublisher Ravan Press (Pty) LtdWeight(grams) 242g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909724525Author J. E. MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Gibb Memorial TrustPublisher Gibb Memorial Trust

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865434455Author Charles CantalupoFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 599g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865435353Author Edmund L. EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865437098Author Kofi AnyidohoFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 400g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865435551Author Dubem OkaforFormat PaperbackPage Count 297Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 409g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865437012Author E.Anthony HurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865436343Author Anne V. AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865436169Author Bernth LindforsFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 320g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865436183Author Ketu H. KatrakFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878310616Author Rose Ure MezuFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Black Academy PressPublisher Black Academy PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527525Author Nadine GordimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

Examines how current novels dealing with African migration address social issues, immigrant subjectivity, and the politics of migration. African Migration and the Novel: Exploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental Destruction explores pressing social...

Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa: Homo Expendibilis presents an examination of North African literature situated at the crossroads of literary analysis, political philosophy, and sociology. The author analyzes social categories in...

The Minoritarian and Black Reason: A Philosophico-Literary Investigation addresses the question, how can we understand and relate responsibly to others who differ from us in our everyday concerns? The work looks at theories about difference in a variety...

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 9783825366414Author Sandra StadlerFormat HardbackPage Count 223Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 499g

Conversations with Ben Okri collects twenty-six interviews that range from 1986 to 2023 and reflect the international resonance of Nigerian writer Ben Okri's work. The reader is given access to the various phases of Okri’s life and career, beginning with...

Shame is one of the most frequent underlying emotions expressed throughout sub-Saharan African literature, yet studies of such literature almost universally ignore the topic in favour of a focus on the struggle for independence and the postcolonial...

Unique in crossing the cultural divides between the area's Anglophone and non-English speaking communities, Caribbean Poetics features authors from the Dominican Republic, Barbados and Haiti. The anthology has now been expanded to include new criticism...

Based in Nigeria and the United Kingdom, Unbridled chronicles the story of a young woman, Ngozi, who suffers various aspects of abuse from her family. Ngozi Akachi is a somewhat regular village girl of exquisite beauty, light-skinned and haunted by the...

Post-Apartheid Gothic: White South African Writers and Space analyses the representation of space in recent works by South African writers. By combining analytical tools borrowed from Gothic studies with geocritical and postcolonial approaches, the...

Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is a collection of 15 critical essays that highlights the literary contributions of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo as one of Nigeria's leading female writers. The book includes a literary biography, professional...

Africans and Globalization: Linguistic, Literary, and Technological Contents and Discontents considers the substance and dissatisfactions of globalization on Africa and its Diaspora. Although variously framed across disciplines, globalization has...

The Narrative Mediterranean: Beyond France and the Maghreb examines literary texts by writers from the Maghreb and positions them in direct relation to increasingly querulous debates on the shifting identity of the modern Mediterranean. This book argues...

One of the lasting legacies of colonialism is the assumption that families should conform to a kinship arrangement built on normative, nuclear, individuality-based models. An alternate understanding of familial aspiration is one cultivated across...

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...

This book likens writers’ incessant focus on racism, negative ethnicity, patriarchy and social stratification in societies to a naïve physician who prescribes analgesics to treat symptoms while the underlying cause of the disease seethes in the blood. In...

As a part of Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literature, the book explores the complex of ways in which Ngugi wa Thiong’o wrestles with issues of nationalism and ethnicity through his politically subversive and creatively intense literary texts. His...

The Narrative Mediterranean: Beyond France and the Maghreb examines literary texts by writers from the Maghreb and positions them in direct relation to increasingly querulous debates on the shifting identity of the modern Mediterranean. This book argues...

Ngugi is one of the most important novelists on the contemporary world stage, and someone whose name has for many become synonymous with cultural controversy and political struggle. Patrick William's lucid analysis offers the most up-to-date study of...

"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...

Alert to the ways in which critical theory and imaginative literature can enrich each other, African Literature and Social Change reframes the ongoing project of African literature. Concentrating on texts that are not usually considered together-writings...