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In The Slow Philosophy of J.M. Coetzee Jan Wilm analyses Coetzee's singular aesthetic style which, he argues, provokes the reader to read his works slowly. The effected 'slow reading' is developed into a method specifically geared to analyzing Coetzee's...

Focusing on texts from the late 1970s to the 1990s which document both changing attitudes to terminations of pregnancy and dramatic environmental, medical, and socio-political developments during southern Africa's liberation struggles, this book examines...

This book studies a broad and ambitious selection of contemporary South African literature, fiction, drama, poetry, and memoir to make sense of the ways in which these works 'remap' the intersections of memory, space/place, and the body, as they explore...

Drawing on the discipline of stylistics, this book introduces a series of methodological tools and applies them to works by well-known Nigerian writers, including Abani, Adichie and Okri. In doing so, it demonstrates how attention to form fosters...

During the last thirty years, Algerian novelists have shown and continue to show a marked interest in the history of their country; some of them, however, approach the past in a manner that is significantly different from that of traditional historical...

From the "imaginative geographies" of conquest identified by Edward Said to the very real and material institution of territorial borders, regions and geographical amalgamations, the control, administration and integration of space are known to...

In Conversation with Bessie Head shows how reading the novels and letters of Botswana's most influential writer, Bessie Head, fosters an ongoing conversation between reader and writer and is in fact a very personal undertaking. Each chapter tackles two...

Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia extends debates on identities, cultures and notions of race and racism into new directions as it analyses the forms of interactional identities of African migrants in Australia. It de-naturalises the commonplace...

Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and allegories constructed around this figure of the undead, probing its cultural and historical weight across different nations and its...

The History of Holy Mar Ma'in of Sinjar tells the story of a Sasanian general during the time of Shapur II (309-79) who suffered persecution after his conversion to Christianity. In this volume, the first in this new series from Gorgias Press, Sebastian...

This handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing with groups of people or regions that suffer marginalization within Africa.The contributors examine a multiplicity of minority discourses expressed in African literature, including those...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223889779Author Jorges P LopezFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Jorges P. LopezPublisher Jorges P. LopezWeight(grams) 268g

This book is an exploration of the material conditions of the production of African literature. Drawing on the archives of Heinemann's African Writers Series, it highlights the procedures, relationships, demands, ideologies, and counterpressures...

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...

Examining images of literacy in African and West Indian novels, Neil ten Kortenaar looks at how postcolonial authors have thought about the act of writing itself. Writing arrived in many parts of Africa as part of colonization in the twentieth century,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956616572Author Shadrach A. AmbanasomFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Langaa RPCIGPublisher Langaa RPCIGWeight(grams) 197g

An examination of the ethics of violence in the Ugaritic story of Aqhat using the conventions of characterization and the conflicting points of view. The points of view of the divine characters El, Baal, Anat, Yatpan, are contrasted with the points of...

Hausa is an African language originating in Niger and northern Nigeria and spoken widely in West and Central Africa as a trading language. This anthology of Hausa texts (mainly Islamic religious verse and historical narratives) was the first publication...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906927084Author Renzo BaasFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Basler Afrika BibliographienPublisher Basler Afrika BibliographienWeight(grams) 476g

This book explores how modern Nigerian fiction is rooted in writers' understanding of their identity and perception of Nigeria as a country and home. Surveying a broad range of authors and texts, the book shows how these fictionalized representations of...

Despite having been written over a century ago, the 3rd edition of Rubens Duval's History of Syriac Literature remains one of the best - and most readable - introductions to Syriac literature. This edition provides the first English translation of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953892027Author Nihaad OsulayohahFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Martin E. Segal Theatre CenterPublisher Martin E. Segal Theatre...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789788431879Author Ismaila a TsigaFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Safari Books LtdPublisher Safari Books LtdWeight(grams) 545g

The Postcolonial Historical Novel is the first systematic work to examine how the historical novel has been transformed by its appropriation in postcolonial writing. It proposes new ways to understand literary realism, and explores how the relationship...

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789780232047Author Tanure OjaideFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Malthouse PressPublisher Malthouse PressWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839540080Author Hazel FrankelFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 372g

As the affordances of authorship and reading practices on social media become deeply mediated by algorithmic curation, they encourage closer attention to the author's personality as fundamental to literary production. The Algorithmic Age of Personality:...

A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the Egyptian novel. Gender studies in Arabic literature have become equated with women's writing, leaving aside the possibility of a radical rethinking of the Arabic...

This book considers the political potential of affective experiences of desire as reflected in contemporary South African literature. Jason Price argues that definitions of desire deployed by capitalist and colonial culture maintain social inequality by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604979091Author Walter CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 152g

This book examines 21st-century South African autobiographical writing that addresses the nation's socio-political realities, both past and present. The texts in focus represent and depict a South Africa caught in the midst of contradictory and competing...

This book analyses Black Consciousness poetry and theatre from the 1970s through to the present. South Africa's literature, like its history, has been beset by disagreement and contradiction, and has been consistently difficult to pin down as one, united...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789976973891Author Joseph SembojaFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Mkuki na Nyota PublishersPublisher Mkuki na Nyota PublishersWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789781563805Author Gloria ChukukereFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Fourth Dimension Publishing Co Ltd ,NigeriaPublisher Fourth Dimension Publishing Co...

This volume, first published in 1980, provides an overview of the way myth and history have influenced both the literature of Africa and individual writers. Isidore Okpewho, Solomon O. Iyasere and Mazisi Kunene contribute here on myth, oral tradition and...

Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the...

Originally published in 1923, this book by highly esteemed Orientalist Ernest Wallis Budge contains an English translation of the Ethiopic text of the tale of Baralam and Yewasef, a Christianized version of the Buddhist legend of the Buddha and the...

Drawing on the discipline of stylistics, this book introduces a series of methodological tools and applies them to works by well-known Nigerian writers, including Abani, Adichie and Okri. In doing so, it demonstrates how attention to form fosters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911143512Author Francesca T BarbiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Luna Press PublishingPublisher Luna Press Publishing