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The legacy of colonialism and slavery has heavily influenced the African identity for centuries. The continent is still grappling with the effects of those legacies today, which continue to erode th……続きを見る

This is the first comprehensive exploration of African ethics covering everything from normative ethics and applied ethics, to meta-ethics and methodology, as well as the history of its evolution. A……続きを見る

How can traditions be subversive? The kinship between African traditions and novels has been under debate for the better part of a century, but the conversation has stagnated because of a slowness t……続きを見る

Stray Truths is a stirring introduction to the poetry of Euphrase Kezilahabi, one of Africa’s major living authors, published here for the first time in English. Born in 1944 on Ukerewe Island in Ta……続きを見る

While Albert Camus is an internationally acclaimed figure, Jean Sénac has struggled to gain recognition, even in France and Algeria. The correspondence between the Nobel Prize recipient and the youn……続きを見る

African and notably sub-Saharan African film’s relative eclipse on the international scene in the early twenty-first century does not transcend the growth within the African genre. This time period ……続きを見る

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