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  • Narratives of Catastrophe

    Boris Diop, ben Jelloun, Khatibi

    de Nasrin Qader ...
    Narratives of Catastrophe tells the story of the relationship between catastrophe, in the senses of "down turn" and "break," and narration as "recounting" in the senses suggested by the French term récit in selected texts by three leading writers from Africa.Qader's book begins by exploring the political implications of narrating catastrophic historical events. Through careful readings of singular ... Leer más

    $81.99 USD

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  • The Truth About Awiti

    de CP Patrick ...
    There is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they are retaliation by restless spirits impacted by one of the darkest chapters of world history—the trans-Atlantic slave trade.Awiti’s destiny was forever changed the day the slave raiders arrived at her village. She made a life-altering decision with ... Leer más

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  • Allan Quatermain

    de H. Rider Haggard ...
    Allan Quatermain was the quintessential Victorian English gentleman cum African big-game hunter. In this book, the second in the series, Quaterman and his two good friends from KSM have tired of their dull and unfulfilling lives in England, and decide to search for the truth of an old tale about the existence of an isolated white kingdom deep in darkest Africa. Their journey and subsequent ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • Something Torn and New

    An African Renaissance

    de Ngugi wa Thiong'o ...
    Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. In Something Torn and New, Ngugi explores Africa's historical, economic, and cultural fragmentation by slavery, colonialism, and ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Summary and Analysis of Americanah

    Based on the Book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    de Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Americanah tells you what you need to know before or after you read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary of Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie includes:Chapter-by-chapter overview... ... Leer más

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  • J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing

    Face-to-face with Time

    de David Attwell ...
    An insightful literary biography of the Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee’s, illuminating the creation of his extraordinary novelsJ. M. Coetzee is one of the most renowned yet elusive authors of our time. Now, in J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing, David Attwell explores the extraordinary creative process behind Coetzee's work, from Dusklands to The Childhood of Jesus. Drawing on Coetzee's ... Leer más

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  • In the Name of the Mother

    Reflections on Writers and Empire

    de Ngugi wa Thiong'o ...
    Renowned worldwide, as novelist and dramatist, Ngugi wa Thiongo's contributions to the body of critical writing on African literature, politics and society have been highly significant. His best known critical work is Decolonising the Mind, which since publication in 1986 has profoundly influenced other writers, critics, scholars and students.These latest essays reflect Ngugi's continuing ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Complicities

    The Intellectual and Apartheid

    de V. Y. Mudimbe, Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Mark A. Sanders ...
    Series series Philosophy and Postcoloniality
    Complicities explores the complicated—even contradictory—position of the intellectual who takes a stand against political policies and ideologies. Mark Sanders argues that intellectuals cannot avoid some degree of complicity in what they oppose and that responsibility can only be achieved with their acknowledgment of this complicity. He examines the role of South African intellectuals by looking ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Stylistic Approaches to Nigerian Fiction

    de D. Tunca ...
    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 understanding of content in their work, as well as in African and postcolonial literatures more widely. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The People's Right to the Novel

    War Fiction in the Postcolony

    de Eleni Coundouriotis ...
    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 global understandings of human rights.The African war novel lies at the convergence of two sensibilities it encounters in European traditions: the ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Rewriting the Return to Africa

    Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers

    de Anne M. François ...
    Rewriting The Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the masculinist version by Négritude male writers from the 1930s to 1960s. Négritude, a cultural and literary movement, drew much of its strength from the idea ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Travel Writing

    Critical Explorations

    Edición de J. Edwards, R. Graulund ...
    With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of a vibrant and highly popular but also volatile genre that has seen many changes in recent years. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD