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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 9789789180158Author Sule E EgyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Kraft BooksPublisher Kraft BooksWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789785487022Author Hamzat I AbdulraheemFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Kwara State University PressPublisher Kwara State University PressWeight(grams)...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789783708587Author Chin CeFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint African Books CollectivePublisher African Books CollectiveWeight(grams) 290g

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 9781940729121Format PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint African Heritage PressPublisher African Heritage PressWeight(grams) 390g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789785412796Author Florence Onyebuchi OrabuezeFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint M & J Grand Orbit CommunicationsPublisher M & J Grand Orbit...

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 9789991642338Author Sarala KrishnamurthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Univ. of Namibia PressPublisher Univ. of Namibia PressWeight(grams) 546g

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 9781904855835Author Alois MlamboFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint African Books CollectivePublisher African Books CollectiveWeight(grams) 369g

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789785416404Author Chidi T MadukaFormat PaperbackImprint M & J Grand Orbit CommunicationsPublisher M & J Grand Orbit CommunicationsWeight(grams) 753g

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 9789987753383Author Rose Marie BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint African Books CollectivePublisher African Books CollectiveWeight(grams) 245g

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 9789780232542Author G. G. DarahFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Malthouse Press Ltd,NigeriaPublisher Malthouse Press Ltd,NigeriaWeight(grams) 497g

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

This book examines the idea of the self in Anglophone literatures from British colonies in Africa and the subcontinent, and in the context of intercultural encounter, literary hybridity and globalization. The project examines texts by eight authors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957296241Author Eunice NgongkumFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Spears Media PressPublisher Spears Media PressWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 229mm...