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Tracing how central tensions in J.M. Coetzee's fiction converge in and are made visible by the child figure, this book establishes the centrality of the child to Coetzee's poetics. Through readings ……続きを見る

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed African writers of the twenty-first century. Best known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks……続きを見る

This book fills a gap in the field of contemporary trauma studies by interrogating the relevance of trauma for African literatures. Kurtz argues that a thoughtful application of trauma theory in rel……続きを見る

Ceci est un livre de biographie non-fiction d'environ 80 000 mots environ. Ce livre est engagé à Solomon Northup Afro-Américain. Ce livre est un journal de 1853 et une histoire d'esclave par L'améri……続きを見る

In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on li……続きを見る

Translingual Francophonie and the Limits of Translation proposes a novel theoretical lens for the study of translation as theme and practice in works by four translingual, francophone authors: Vassi……続きを見る

The Worlding of the South African Novel develops from something of a paradox: that despite momentous political transition from apartheid to democracy, little in South Africa’s socio-economic reality……続きを見る

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 Senegal……続きを見る

Literary Black Power in the Caribbean focuses on the Black Power movement in the anglophone Caribbean as represented and critically debated in literary texts, music and film. This volume is groundbr……続きを見る

A playwright whose work is appreciated on a global scale, Athol Fugard's plays have done more to document and provide a cultural commentary on Apartheid-era South Africa than any other writer in the……続きを見る

The influence of colonialism and race on the development of African literature has been the subject of a number of studies. The effect of patriarchy and gender, however, and indeed the contributions……続きを見る

This handbook generates new insights that enrich our understanding of the history of Islam in Africa and the diverse experiences and expressions of the faith on the continent. The chapters in the vo……続きを見る

Approaching Wordsworth’ writings from perspectives which have not been considered in critical literature, this book offers a multiangled reflection on the technicalities of the poet’s religious disc……続きを見る

In the mid-nineteenth century successive cultural Bohemias were proclaimed in Paris, London, New York, and Melbourne. Focusing on networks and borders as the central modes of analysis, this book cha……続きを見る

Am I a boy? Am I a man? Of course I am black. Am I still a brother? Am I still a friend? Am I a fag? Who am I? Raised in the a country where good and bad are judged based on the interpretation of re……続きを見る

Poetry is to me, the most persuasive use of language. The aesthetics of poetry empowers the poet to convince people, discourages them from embracing wrong ideals, comforts the distraught, and of cou……続きを見る

This book examines South Africa’s post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the socio-political project of the “new” South Africa, best exemplified in their Tru……続きを見る

Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”: The Case for Reparations is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on one of the most influential American novels and novelists. The author ……続きを見る

This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the literature of eSwatini. It details a literary trajectory that begins with renditions of the country by early travelers and settlers and follo……続きを見る

The impact of the Algerian War (1954-1962) continues to resonate in France, where the subject was long repressed in the collective psyche. This book sheds new light on a memory community at the hear……続きを見る

At the end of French colonization in Algeria, four categories of people held French citizenship or had strong ties with France: European settlers, Jews, mixed-race individuals, and Harkis. The end o……続きを見る

The Algerian War in Film Fifty Years Later, 2004?–?2012 examines the cultural, political, and aesthetic significance of narrative films made during the fiftieth-anniversary period of the war, betwee……続きを見る

Analyzes parallel developments in post–Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity. In Forms of Disappoint……続きを見る

Explores Black women writers' treatment of the ancestor figure. The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave investigates the treatment of the ancestor figure in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, Paul……続きを見る

Explores interactions between Europeans and Moroccans on both sides of the straits in the latter half of the nineteenth century. For the first time, readings of Moroccan travel writing in Arabic are……続きを見る

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive view of Matsemela Manaka's plays, namely, Egoli, Pula, Children of Asazi, Toro, and Goree and discusses three of his essays: 'Theatre of the dispos……続きを見る

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 st……続きを見る

An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries The African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel……続きを見る

As co-architects of this crumbling edifice called Nigeria, the Author highlights the complacence, apathy and nonchallance of the citizens as they watched the elite pillage the nations patrimony; He ……続きを見る

A proposta deste volume, Literatura afro-brasileira: 100 autores do século XVIII ao XXI é disponibilizar a professores e alunos dos diversos níveis de ensino dados biográficos e informações sobre a ……続きを見る