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En el siglo XVI, cautivos, rescatadores, clérigos y soldados produjeron conocimientos necesarios para la intervención militar de los españoles en el Magreb. El fracaso final de esta aventura expansi……続きを見る

Consenting victims is the story of Olivia, a young african woman who  believes that love is between one man and one woman, despite the fact that she lives in a country where polygamy is legitim……続きを見る

Engaging and interrogating the idea of a ‘Global Africa’, this book examines how African literary and cultural productions have changed over the years due to the social and political influences brou……続きを見る

This book considers the political potential of affective experiences of desire as reflected in contemporary South African literature. Jason Price argues that definitions of desire deployed by capita……続きを見る

This book examines vital intersections of narration, linguistic innovation, and political insight that distinguish Chinua Achebe’s fiction as well as his non-fiction commentaries. Each chapter focus……続きを見る

Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada is the first book to examine how Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English Canada. Focu……続きを見る

The book is a collection of fifteen plays written by Prof. Iyorwuese Hagher, Africa’s most politically exposed playwright. This rare collection offers a penetrating insight of corruption and politic……続きを見る

A significant and prolific francophone writer and filmmaker, Assia Djebar is celebrated for her experimental, multilingual prose and her nuanced, imaginative representations of Algeria. From her fir……続きを見る

Postcolonial Parabola: Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma interrogates the relationship between the literary representation of postcolonial trauma and the embodied experien……続きを見る

Drawing the Line examines the ways in which cultural, political, and legal lines are imagined, drawn, crossed, erased, and redrawn in post-apartheid South Africaーthrough literary texts, artworks, a……続きを見る

During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, insurgencies erupted in imperial states and colonies around the world, including Britain’s. As Nicole Rizzuto sh……続きを見る

Narratives of Catastrophe tells the story of the relationship between catastrophe, in the senses of "down turn" and "break," and narration as "recounting" in the senses suggested by the French term ……続きを見る

This study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa. Coundouriotis argues that this genre, aimed more specifically at African readers than the continent’s better-known bildungsroman trad……続きを見る

This book is about the metanarrative and metafictional elements of J. M. Coetzee’s novels. It draws together authorship, readership, ethics, and formal analysis into one overarching argument about h……続きを見る

Cette présente étude s‘intéresse aux représentations de la mort dans le roman africain francophone, notamment aux symboles, aux espaces, aux personnages ou encore aux formes de la mort. Contrairemen……続きを見る

The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904–1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated thousands of Herero an……続きを見る

Aischylos' 'Die Orestie: Agamemnon' ist ein Meisterwerk der antiken griechischen Tragödie, das in Form einer Trilogie verfasst wurde. 'Agamemnon' ist der erste Teil dieser Tragödie und erzählt die G……続きを見る

Joseph Conrads Buch 'Das Herz der Finsternis' ist ein Meisterwerk der modernen Literatur, das die dunklen Seiten der menschlichen Natur und die Abgründe der Kolonialisierung des 19. Jahrhunderts erf……続きを見る

This is the first book on the fiction of Zoë Wicomb, a writer long at the forefront of the South African canon and whose international stature was firmly secured with the award of an inaugural Windh……続きを見る

Author Evan Maina Mwangi explores the intersection of translation, sexuality, and cosmopolitan ethics in African literature. Usually seen as the preserve of literature published by Euro-American met……続きを見る

This book analyses Black Consciousness poetry and theatre from the 1970s through to the present. South Africa’s literature, like its history, has been beset by disagreement and contradiction, and ha……続きを見る

This volume illuminates how creative representations remain sites of ongoing struggles to engage with animals in indigenous epistemologies. Traditionally imagined in relation to spiritual realms and……続きを見る

This bookworks across established categories of modernism and postcolonialism in order to radically revise the periods, places, and topics traditionally associated with anti-colonialism and aestheti……続きを見る

In a collection of sixteen essays, Gagiano addresses more than twenty texts from various African regions and periods. The works discussed here range from transcriptions of ancient (Khoikhoi/San) fol……続きを見る

For more than a century cars have symbolized autonomous, unfettered mobility and an increasingly global experience. And yet, they are often used differently outside the centers of global capitalism.……続きを見る

Gene Ramone Brook -- Chaplain Brookie -- ministers to black inmates in the Green Machine, the nickname for the privatized, for-profit prison that relies on a steady stream of black and brown inmates……続きを見る

The Narrative Mediterranean: Beyond France and the Maghreb examines literary texts by writers from the Maghreb and positions them in direct relation to increasingly querulous debates on the shifting……続きを見る

The Soliloquist (Two) is a timeless and contemporary lamentation of rocking events and experiences of life which have aroused the anonymous character of this masterpiece from his state of silence. H……続きを見る

Jokes have always been part of African culture, but never have they been so blended with the strains and gains of the contemporary African world as today. Joke-Performance in Africa describes and an……続きを見る

Africans and Globalization: Linguistic, Literary, and Technological Contents and Discontents considers the substance and dissatisfactions of globalization on Africa and its Diaspora. Although variou……続きを見る