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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 collection brings together a wide range of reflections shaped from everyday living, quiet observations, and the emotional undercurrents that move through ordinary routines. Each poem explores a……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

Authors Timothy Jenkins and Khafra K Om-Ra-Zeti are suggesting that many of our problems and our solutions can be found in the current Information Age Technological Revolution. As Black Futurists, t……続きを見る

Winnerー2022 College Language Association Book Prize Finalistー2024 African Literature Association's Best Scholarly Book Award Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebeーauthor of Things Fall Apart, one of th……続きを見る

L’Afrique a pendant plusieurs siècles été vue, imaginée, fantasmée par les Européens comme un continent sauvage, ténébreux, matière première des récits d’aventures et d’exploration, teintés d’exotis……続きを見る

Disputing the claim that Algerian writing during the struggle against French colonial rule dealt almost exclusively with revolutionary themes, The Algerian New Novel shows how Algerian authors writi……続きを見る

Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously written by early and later diaspora people of African descent. Their……続きを見る

The book, through textual analyses, brings concepts of Senghorian Negritude and Emersonian ideas into a cross-cultural dialogue, and thus opens up a completely new perspective in research on the his……続きを見る

As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written i……続きを見る

Aria Fathers isn’t just fiction ー it’s a reflection of our world, a stirring reminder of what happens when the youth wake up and demand change. It dives deep into: The corruption of long-serving po……続きを見る

Philosophy, Language, and Literature in an African Context investigates the link between philosophy and language in African literature. Wilfred Lajul and the contributors argue that African literatu……続きを見る

Hierdie werk is gemik op die Volk, my Afrikaner-mense waarmee ek grootgeword het en langsaam verloor het na 1994. Die Boervolk. Met hierdie probeer ek jul aanpor om weer tot op jul voete te kom, reg……続きを見る

This book explores literary representations of African immigrant experiences in Western countries, against the backdrop of colonial stereotypes and recent expressions of anti-immigrant sentiment in ……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

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

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

Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World: Between Fiction, Fact, and Historical Representation explores Chinua Achebe’s literary works and how they communicated the Igbo-African world to readers. En……続きを見る

Atlantis Otherwise expands the study of the African diaspora by focusing on postcolonial literary expressions from Latin America and Africa. The book studies the presence of classical references in ……続きを見る

Hollywood and Africa - recycling the ëDark Continentí myth from 1908ñ2020 is a study of over a century of stereotypical Hollywood film productions about Africa. It argues that the myth of the Dark C……続きを見る

Approaching Wordsworth’ writings from perspectives which have not been considered in critical literature, this book offers a multiangled reflection on the technicalities of the poet’s religious disc……続きを見る

Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is a collection of 15 critical essays that highlights the literary contributions of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo as one of Nigeria’s leading female writers.……続きを見る

The Chadian writer Nimrodーphilosopher, poet, novelist, and essayistーis one of the most dynamic and vital voices in contemporary African literature and thought. Yet little of Nimrod’s writing has b……続きを見る

In the decade before and after independence, Nigerians not only adopted the novel but reinvented the genre. Nigerian novels imagined the new state, with its ideals of the rule of law, state sovereig……続きを見る

Ce jour-là, alors que les rayons du soleil se noyaient progressivement dans les nuées au environ de dix-sept heures, je décidai d'aller me balader sur la route quand, subitement, je reçus un électro……続きを見る

Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps and introduced new motifs and narrative styles which have energized contemporary Afric……続きを見る

Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the writing of African and African diaspora speculative and science fiction writing. Recent discussions around the "rise of science-fiction ……続きを見る

J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the most critically acclaimed bestselling author of imaginative fiction writing in English today. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and is the first writer ……続きを見る

Dike Okoro analyzes the various manifestations of ecocriticism and political activism in the poetry of Lupenga Mphande, who is arguably Africa’s first poet to explore the existence of territorial cu……続きを見る

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization tha……続きを見る