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This collection of imaginative essays traces notions of hospitality across a sequence of theoretical permutations, not only as an urgent challenge for our conflicted present, but also as foundationa……続きを見る

Professores de Ensino Fundamental e Ensino Médio de todo o território nacional, sobretudo os de Literatura, História e Artes, bem como todos os pesquisadores, profissionais e cidadãos que buscam a i……続きを見る

This book celebrates Chinua Achebe, one of the most profound and famous African writers of our time, and his widely read masterpiece, Things Fall Apart. The novel remains a “must read” literary text……続きを見る

Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, w……続きを見る

"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how……続きを見る

Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature examines how literatureーand the way we read, classify, and critique literatureーimpacts our understanding of the ……続きを見る

Quando há várias nações, antigamente metrópole e colônias, usando a mesma língua, outros fatores devem ser usados para definir quais obras pertencem a uma nação. Além disso, é importante caracteriza……続きを見る

This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, including an enormous range of genres, in varying v……続きを見る

The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 ……続きを見る

The years between the 1920s and 1970s are key for the development of Caribbean literature, producing the founding canonical literary texts of the Anglophone Caribbean. This volume features essays by……続きを見る

Through mainly a New Historicist critical approach, this book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe employ supernatural devices such as prophecies, dreams, gods/goddesses, beliefs, and divinations to ……続きを見る

The book is the result of a collaboration of scholars from southern Africa and overseas, whose work emphasises hitherto overshadowed subjects of literature, exposing new and untried approaches to Zi……続きを見る

This collection serves as a showcase for literary translation research with a focus on African perspectives, highlighting theoretical and methodological developments in the discipline while shedding……続きを見る

For one hundred years, Heart of Darkness has been among the most widely read and taught novels in the English language. Hailed as an incisive indictment of European imperialism in Africa upon its pu……続きを見る

The first book to examine and establish characteristics of the British South African novel. Beyond Gold and Diamonds demonstrates the importance of southern Africa to British literature from the 188……続きを見る

This research report is based on the investigation and thinking of Thai social phenomena. In view of the frequent social unrest, demonstrations and anti-government activities in Thailand in recent y……続きを見る

Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa: Homo Expendibilis presents an examination of North African literature situated at the crossroads of literary analysis, political philosophy, and……続きを見る

Post-Apartheid Gothic: White South African Writers and Space analyzes the representation of space in recent works by South African writers. By combining analytical tools borrowed from Gothic studies……続きを見る

This book examines the depiction of the Delta region of Nigeria through literature and other cultural art forms. The Niger Delta has been thrust into the global limelight due to resource extraction ……続きを見る

This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clarify the origins of postcolonial dictatorships and explore the shape of the demo……続きを見る

This book investigates the many ways in which contemporary African fiction has reflected on themes of responsibility and complicity during the postcolonial period. Covering the authors Ayi Kwei Arma……続きを見る

Making extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, from the earliest drafts and notebooks to the research notes and digital record……続きを見る

This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi ……続きを見る

From the Author: "The thoughts portrayed in these poems rose from the dust of my father's kingdom while I was busy reaching for the sky as a boy in my home town in West Africa, and they grew tall wi……続きを見る

Until fairly recently, critical studies and anthologies of African American literature generally began with the 1830s and 1840s. Yet there was an active and lively transatlantic black literary tradi……続きを見る

African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century examines contemporary fiction by African women authors to resonate diaspora perspectives on what it means to be……続きを見る

Dike Okoro analyzes the various manifestations of ecocriticism and political activism in the poetry of Lupenga Mphande, who is arguably Africa’s first poet to explore the existence of territorial cu……続きを見る

2º lugar no 6º Prêmio ABEU 2020 na categoria Linguística, Letras e Artes. Este livro apresenta um percurso de reflexão desenvolvido em torno dos paradigmas críticos e dos repertórios bibliográficos ……続きを見る

In the decade before and after independence, Nigerians not only adopted the novel but reinvented the genre. Nigerian novels imagined the new state, with its ideals of the rule of law, state sovereig……続きを見る

This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance. Gathering insights from distinguished scholars in the field, the book provides a rang……続きを見る