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How may we conceptualize Africa in the driver’s seat of her own destiny in the twenty-first century? How practically may her cultures become the foundation and driving force of her innovation, devel……続きを見る

Alaska Kid von Jack London (englischer Originaltitel: Smoke Bellew) und Kid & Co sind zwei Sammlungen von Erzählungen des US-amerikanischen Schriftstellers Jack London, die 1912 als Serie für den Ab……続きを見る

在世界觀轉變的浪潮中，晚清文藝論者透過虛實交錯的想像，推開世界的窗戶，發現「非洲」。本書系統性與結構性觀察此一仍有待建構的學術議題：十九世紀中國人如何／為何接受、看待與想像非洲異域？「非洲」是在怎樣……続きを見る

This book seeks to unfold the complexity within the works of Dambudzo Marechera and presents scholars and readers with a way of reading his works in light of utopian thinking. Writing during a traum……続きを見る

In this book Kurt Buhring explores concepts of spirit(s) within various Black religions as a means to make a constructive theological contribution to contemporary Black theology in regard to ideas o……続きを見る

Legacies of Departed African Women Writers: Matrix of Creativity and Power proffers varied perspectives of the invaluable contributions of ten deceased African writers from all across Africa who hav……続きを見る

The enormous success of writers such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie demonstrates that African literatures are now an international phenomenon. But the apparent global legibility of a smal……続きを見る

One of the lasting legacies of colonialism is the assumption that families should conform to a kinship arrangement built on normative, nuclear, individuality-based models. An alternate understanding……続きを見る

Across more than two centuries Afro-America has created a huge and dazzling variety of literary self-expression. Designs of Blackness provides less a narrative literary history than, precisely, a se……続きを見る

During the last thirty years, Algerian novelists have shown and continue to show a marked interest in the history of their country; some of them, however, approach the past in a manner that is signi……続きを見る

The only up-to-date and comprehensive text and reader of Algerian literature available in English, Algerian Literature: A Reader’s Guide and Anthology offers the reader a historical and critical ove……続きを見る

Cet essai propose une relecture de l’œuvre romanesque de Tahar Djaout composée de L’Exproprié (Sned, 1981), Les Chercheurs d’os (Seuil, 1984), L’Invention du désert (Seuil, 1987), Les rets de l’oise……続きを見る

Cet essai La guerre d’Algérie dans le roman français – s’appuie, dans son contenu et sa démarche, sur une centaine d’ouvrages de genres très variés : fiction, récit, carnets de voyage, témoignage ro……続きを見る

Yamina Mechakra (1949 – 2013) a marqué son passage dans la littérature algérienne par la brièveté même de son oeuvre romanesque : La Grotte éclatée (Sned, 1979) et Arris (Algérie-Littérature-Action,……続きを見る

Du désastre colonial sont nés les fondateurs de la littérature algérienne, Mouloud Feraoun, Mohammed Dib, Mouloud Mammeri, Kateb Yacine, Assia Djebar ; du chaos du terrorisme islamiste ont surgi Tah……続きを見る

Cet essai La guerre d’Algérie dans le roman français – s’appuie, dans son contenu et sa démarche, sur une centaine d’ouvrages de genres très variés : fiction, récit, carnets de voyage, témoignage ro……続きを見る

Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing is the first book to bring rigorous literary, philosophical, and artistic discourse together to interrogate the ethics of governance and ……続きを見る

Literary Connections between South Africa and the Lusophone World connects literatures and cultures of South Africa and the Portuguese-speaking nations of Africa and beyond, and is set within litera……続きを見る

Focusing on texts from the late 1970s to the 1990s which document both changing attitudes to terminations of pregnancy and dramatic environmental, medical, and socio-political developments during so……続きを見る

Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The ……続きを見る

June 17, 2008, is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart by Heinemann. This publication provided the impetus for the foundation of the African Writers Serie……続きを見る

This book is a collection of essays on Yvonne Owuor’s writings, mainly her most acclaimed novel, Dust as well as Dragonfly Sea and her short story “Weight of Whispers”. While the chapters in this bo……続きを見る

This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence. Kunene is widely recogni……続きを見る

This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women ……続きを見る

This book is a history of a prominent Ghanaian newspaper, the Ashanti Pioneer, as well as well-known figurers in the country itself. It utilizes the stories published in the newspaper to recount the……続きを見る

This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laingーtwo writers whose texts frequently foreground multi-scalar transregiona……続きを見る

This book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine different places outside the established metropoles. It shows how different econom……続きを見る

Les concepts de postmodernité et de postcolonialisme revêtent en Afrique des significations radicalement différentes de celles qu'ils ont reçues en Occident. Les douze études réunies dans ce volume ……続きを見る

At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić established a critic……続きを見る

This work is the first book-length scholarly treatment of Nnedi Okorafor's critically acclaimed fiction. Written for an audience that includes serious fans as well as scholars, it is an introduction……続きを見る