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This volume offers literary histories and analyses of a wide range of genres in African literature and verbal arts. It provides a holistic and accessible presentation of African literary history tha……続きを見る

Speaking about his early experiments with the camera, the Nobel Prize winning novelist J. M. Coetzee acknowledged the seminal influence of images on his writing: 'The marks of photography and of the……続きを見る

Degreed but Disposable exposes how institutional bottlenecks and outdated syllabuses turn educated young people into casualties of a system that refuses to adapt. Linking classrooms to labor markets……続きを見る

Book Description Biography of a Politician: A Memoir represents a groundbreaking work in political psychology and corruption studies, presented through the innovative lens of fictional memoir. Dr. N……続きを見る

This book, with a focus on the East African coast and especially on the Kenyan coast, puts into conversation cross-generic texts – the historical novel, the Indian Ocean novel, oral history, oral te……続きを見る

This innovative book examines the ways in which African photography, film, and literature are resisting environmental extractivism, using themes of interrelationality. Reminding us that we are all p……続きを見る

An examination of alternate imaginaries of 'the global' in post-millennium anglophone African literature and the differing forms of agency that these imaginaries produce. Irony, Agency and the Globa……続きを見る

In belonging to an oppressed/colonized racial group in the West, where their voices, humanity, history, culture, reality, and subjectivity are perpetually under siege, distorted, and/or erased, Afri……続きを見る

"Antes del Espejo" es un ensayo literario poscolonial sobre identidad, memoria y nación en Angola. El libro cuestiona las narrativas coloniales, la espiritualidad desplazada y la construcción de fro……続きを見る

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira offers a compelling examination of one of Mozambique’s most courageous yet underrecognized journalistic voices. Through close textual analysis an……続きを見る

Peut-on rester silencieux quand le système qui doit vous éduquer choisit de vous écraser ? Dans un petit village africain, trois enfants inséparables Sékou, Kader et Fatim grandissent entre rires d'……続きを見る

Peut-on rester silencieux quand le système qui doit vous éduquer choisit de vous écraser ? Dans un petit village africain, trois enfants inséparables Sékou, Kader et Fatim grandissent entre rires d'……続きを見る

Comment les Africains peuvent-ils réussir à transcender le drame de la rencontre avec l’Autre ? Quel travail les ex-colonisé.e.s doivent-ils/elles mener sur leur passé pour ne pas rester figé.e.s da……続きを見る

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests a new way of thinking about the connections between politics, subjectivity, and l……続きを見る

Equity's Whispers is a 292-page literary-political thriller following Yani, a principled fraud investigator whose routine case uncovers a web of national corruption. As she confronts betrayal and sy……続きを見る

This book assesses the life and works of the leading Zimbabwean poet and novelist, Chenjerai Hove. Proposing a reading of Hove’s work through the dual concepts of rupture and suture, this book inves……続きを見る

A visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation A bold, experimental intervention in literary and theoretical discourse of colonialism and diaspora, The Web of Differi……続きを見る

African Oral Literature: An Introduction guides us from the very beginnings of African oral traditions, through the whole range of theories and contexts, and right up to the modern technological age……続きを見る

Demonstrates the centrality of thinking about time to decolonial poetry and poetics. Revolutionary Poetics considers the role of politically engaged poetry during social revolutions and processes of……続きを見る

This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the establishment of the Malawi Writers Group in 1970 and thrived thereafter as a signific……続きを見る

This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary models for understanding temporality and reimagining history in our catastrophe-ridden twenty-first century. Examining eight works from di……続きを見る

This book investigates the many ways in which African literature has engaged with themes of migration and postcolonial disillusionment. The book argues that disillusionment amongst African migrants ……続きを見る

Alejo Carpentier in Context examines one of the greatest novelists of Latin American literature in the 20th century. The Cuban Carpentier was one of the regions firmest supporters of the Cuban Revol……続きを見る

"They silenced our truths. Distorted our wisdom. Buried our soul. Now we dig it back upーwith fire in our hands." Twisted Philosophy is not just a book,it's a reckoning. For centuries, African thoug……続きを見る

Across a range of literary texts, Black writers depict taking flight to escape systems of subordination from the Middle Passage and the plantation to the present-day racialized order. While flight, ……続きを見る

Celebrating ten years of New-Generation African Poets, Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry presents Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani's unprecedented disquisition on the state of African poetry. TOW……続きを見る

This book examines African literature and society addressing visual language as stylistic and narrative technique in isiZulu editorial cartoons, translation evaluation in television adaptations, and……続きを見る

Bantou et âme ruinée n'est pas un livre de dénonciation, encore moins un réquisitoire. C'est un cri lucide. Celui d'une âme qui observe, qui se souvient, et qui ose dire ce que beaucoup ressentent s……続きを見る

A major new look at Africa's influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe. Virgil. Chaucer. Petrarch. These names resonate with many as cornerst……続きを見る

Transnational African Identities in Contemporary Urban Fiction: Community, Hospitality and Friendship offers a sophisticated and original lens for understanding transnational African identities and ……続きを見る