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This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its West African pioneers: Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Ben……続きを見る

In Dorothy Wordsworth's 'Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803', readers are taken on a poignant journey through the author's detailed accounts of her travels with her brother, William ……続きを見る

African literature has never been more visible than it is today. Whereas Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o defined a golden generation of African writers in the 20th century, a new ……続きを見る

“Kai Wiegandt’s study offers a nuanced, thoroughgoing and deeply engaging account of novelist J.M. Coetzee’s revision of our core ideas of the humanーnot least the human sense of uniqueness that we ……続きを見る

Literature in English has been carefully and thoroughly written to suit Ordinary level students. Students will use this book for reference and clarification on different literature perspectives. It ……続きを見る

In 2007 the French newspaper Le Monde published a manifesto titled “Toward a ‘World Literature’ in French,” signed by forty-four writers, many from France’s former colonies. Proclaiming that the fra……続きを見る

This book examines the representation of figures, memories and images of childhood in selected contemporary diasporic African fiction by Adichie, Abani, Wainaina and Oyeyemi. The book argues that ch……続きを見る

In Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy engages readers in an interpretive journey. She lays out a radical new process that invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible ……続きを見る

Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature is a critical study of environmental writing, covering a range of genres and generations of writers in Nigeria. With a sustained concentratio……続きを見る

This Handbook provides a robust collection of vibrant discourses on African social ethics and ethical practices. It focuses on how the ethical thoughts of Africans are forged within the context of e……続きを見る

A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while reasserting the……続きを見る

In Search of the Afropolitan explores human encounters and moments that speak to the challenges of being a 21st century African of the world. Against the background of an engaging evaluation of the ……続きを見る

The Egypt illustrations by David Roberts’ Nile (1796–1864) graciously captures life in Egypt and its ancient civilization. These Egyptian illustrated picturesque scenes of Egypt and its architectura……続きを見る

This text offers scholarly and critical editions of significant novels of Gothic fiction from the Romantic period. It illustrates the various forms of female Gothic literature as a vehicle for repre……続きを見る

This multi-volume reset collection will addresses significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience. 続きを見る

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 disco……続きを見る

This is a revised edition, replacing the previous one. Divided into BOOKS One and Two, Quid Pro Quo ruminates over the non-literate life of the Yoruba people. Book One lets us know about divinity-ph……続きを見る

This book investigates ‘capitalism and freedom’ーthe guiding forces of many political systemsーin African philosophy. It builds on classical and neoliberal capitalism rooted in private property and ……続きを見る

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 c……続きを見る

The articles by Polina Levontin and Robert S Malan are currently nominated for the BSFA Awards. “The Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction” is the second Call for Papers of Academia Lunar……続きを見る

This volume evaluates the vitality of the term ‘Afropolitan’ within the fields of African and Afro-diasporic studies. A hotly debated and malleable term, its wide circulation has allowed for Afropol……続きを見る

Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and South Asia. Through critical work and literary ……続きを見る

This volume is dedicated to fictional negotiations of future, or rather futureS. After all, ‘future’ cannot but exist in a multitude of complementary and/or competing futures, all causally related t……続きを見る

Recognizing philosophy’s traditional influence onーand literature’s creative stimulus forーsociopolitical discourses, imaginations, and structures, African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: ……続きを見る

The first of its kind, this edited volume provides in-depth, culturally sensitive material intended for addressing the unique concerns of Black women with eating disorders in addition to comprehensi……続きを見る

This book uses the conceptual framework of animism, the belief in the spiritual qualities of nonhuman matter, to analyze representations of trauma in postcolonial fiction from Nigeria and India. Tow……続きを見る

Les 'Derniers Contes' de Edgar Allan Poe sont une collection d'histoires sombres et macabres qui captivent les lecteurs par leur atmosphère lugubre et mystérieuse. Poe utilise son style d'écriture c……続きを見る

Je recommande vivement Histoires souveraines à ceux qui apprécient la prose poétique, l'exploration des thèmes métaphysiques et la beauté des énigmes littéraires. Ce recueil fascinant de contes fant……続きを見る

Dans son livre 'Cruelle Énigme', Paul Bourget explore les thèmes de la passion et de la trahison à travers une prose complexe et richement détaillée. L'Suvre est ancrée dans le mouvement littéraire ……続きを見る

Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which fi……続きを見る