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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

Nineteenth-century European representations of Africa are notorious for depicting the continent with a blank interior. But there was a time when British writers filled Africa with landed empires and……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

The Lion and the Jewel Summary & Analysis goes straight to the point. It handles the most important aspects of Wole Soyinka's play, The Lion and the Jewel in a way that makes teaching or studying it……続きを見る

This book, WAEC Literature African Poetry Summary & Analysis contains summaries and analyses of six poems from some of the best African poets. The poems covered include Black Woman, The Grieved Land……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

Authentic education ( genuine learning) Genuine learning will be learning intended to associate what understudies are shown in school to true issues, issues, and applications; growth opportunities o……続きを見る

Named a Notable African Book of 2023 by *Brittle Paper The Beauty Hunters* offers a rare insight into Sudanese Bedouin poetry, its evolution, aesthetics, and impact. Through an in-depth profile of a……続きを見る

2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African Diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoirists who li……続きを見る

This is the first book-length study to analyse and problematize the notion of literary texts as ‘sites of memory’ with regard to the representation of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62), and……続きを見る

Judy and Dean join their friends to play an Escape Room, but things are not as they seem in this horror short story. Written in Afrikaans and English, this bilingual short story book is written in 1……続きを見る

Across contiguous nation-states in Eastern Africa, the geographic proximity disguises an ideological complexity. Land has meant something fundamental in the sociocultural history of each country. Th……続きを見る

This book explores the “battles” of words, songs, poetry, and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora. These are usually highly competitive, artistic contests in which rival parties duel for ……続きを見る

Philosophy of Race: An Introduction provides plainly written access to a new subfield that has been in the background of philosophy since Plato and Aristotle. The second edition is updated to includ……続きを見る

Fantasy - saggio (42 pagine) - La narrativa fantasy non arriva solo dal mondo anglosassone! Alla scoperta della letteratura fantastica dal resto del mondo Esiste una tradizione ricca e illustre in a……続きを見る

An exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally attributed to the Western imagination, science fiction is a literary genre that……続きを見る

In the context of a diversified and pluralistic arena of contemporary literature embodying previously marginalized voices of region, ethnicity, gender, and class, black poets living in Britain devel……続きを見る

The Cameroons is in the grips of a perpetual tailspin. The confusion and lack of clarity in the nation threaten everyone's sanity. The Absurd and the Cameroonian Tragedy at Decolonization dissects t……続きを見る

J. M. Coetzee – novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2003) – is widely recognized as one of the towering literary figures of the last half century. With chapter……続きを見る

This book examines the idea of the self in Anglophone literatures from British colonies in Africa and the subcontinent, and in the context of intercultural encounter, literary hybridity and globaliz……続きを見る

This book examines the complexities of women’s lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America through the literary works of key African women writers. Using a postcolonial ……続きを見る

The texts that make up postcolonial print cultures are often found outside the archival catalogue, and in lesser-examined repositories such as personal collections, the streets, or appendages to est……続きを見る

Growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel was immersed in the language and culture of Italy, Somalia’s former colonizer. Yet when she moved to Italy as a young mother in the 1970s, sh……続きを見る