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First published in 1975, this volume of the series continues in more depth the debate on the role of critics and the purpose of criticism. As Eldred Jones reminds the reader in his Editorial: "African Literature Today has always aimed to be a forum...

WINNER OF THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2016 The author meticulously contextualises the experiences of Achebe and his peers as students at Government College Umuahia and argues for a re-assessment of this influential group of Nigerian writers in...

Over the past two decades interest in travel has developed significantly. Critical engagement with imperialism, postcolonialism, diasporas, ethnography and cultural anthropology has led to increasingly sophisticated readings of the travel writing genre...

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.

The fourteen interviews in this book form an unprecedented wealth of material on authors' responses to HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Zimbabwe. They comprise a valuable archive which documents and contextualises the variety of views and opinions of...

This book demonstrates the insights that literature brings to transdisciplinary urban studies, and particularly in the study of cities of the south. It surveys more than a century of South African writing - from the origins of the industrial city to the...

Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers. Sixty years after the Conference of African...

This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora.In recent years a compelling array of critically acclaimed fiction by women in the West African diaspora has shifted the...

This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000.The short story genre, whilst often marginalised in national literary canons, has been central to the trajectory of literary...

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 9780992843663Author Ivor Agyeman-DuahFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd

Politicising World Literature: Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public engages with postcolonial and world literature approaches to examine the worldly imaginary of the novel genre and assert the political imperative to teaching world literature. How does...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956240125Author Benjamin KwakyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 218g

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 255Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 474g

This study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa. Coundouriotis argues that this genre, aimed more specifically at African readers than the continent's better-known bildungsroman tradition, nevertheless makes an important intervention in...

The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral poets of the amaXhosa people, has long shaped understandings of landscape and history and offered a forum for grappling with change. Of Land, Bones, and Money examines the shifting role of these poets in...

The South African literature of iimbongi, the oral poets of the amaXhosa people, has long shaped understandings of landscape and history and offered a forum for grappling with change. Of Land, Bones, and Money examines the shifting role of these poets in...

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...

Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as an author, broadcaster, editor and political thinker. With new, historically contextualised...

Bringing together writings by Egyptians, Arabs, men and women, Muslims, Copts, and Jews, this rich selection maps out many of the changes in Cairo's geopolitics and its urban fabric, while tracing spatial and social forms of polarization and new patterns...

Nadia Anwar presents a compelling reading framework for the study and analysis of selected post-independence Nigerian dramas, using the conceptual parameters of metatheatre, a theatrical strategy which foregrounds the process of play-making by breaking...

This book is a chronological study of the history of Arabic literature. Beginning with a brief discourse on geographical and cultural influences on Arabic writers, and touching on the earliest forms of pre-Islamic poetry, the author continues with a...

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

This edited volume provides a wide- ranging introduction to the novelistic oeuvre of the prize- winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah. It addresses a gap in Gurnah scholarship by including chapters which discuss his earlier works that have not received the...

This book explores the unique contributions of various forms of post-2000 life-writings such as the autobiography, epistles, and biographies, to discourses about the nature and socio-politics of what has become known as the Zimbabwean crisis (c...

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...

The book presents an intertextual and comparative analysis of memories of violence in Peruvian and Congolese Literature. Examining a variety of novels that offer insightful representations of violence in their respective historical settings, the author...

This book approaches the study of AfroEurope through narrative forms produced in contemporary France, a location which richly illustrates race in European spaces.The book adopts a transdisciplinary lens that combines critical black and urban geographies,...

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,...

PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY A close analysis of Farah's novels is used to track the contradictions implicit in the notion of the modern, disengaged self and how transformations of the novel in literary history attempt to negotiate this founding...

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...

This book demonstrates the insights that literature brings to transdisciplinary urban studies, and particularly to the study of cities of the South. Starting from the claim staked by mining capital in the late nineteenth century and its production of...

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...