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This volume considers the linguistic complexities associated with Shakespeare’s presence in South Africa from 1801 to early twentieth-first century televisual updatings of the texts as a means of ex……続きを見る

This reference collection presents academic reviews of more than twelve-hundred contemporary Africa-related publications relevant for informed Christian reflection in and about Africa. The collectio……続きを見る

Under apartheid, black South Africans experienced severe material and social disadvantages occasioned by the government’s policies, and they had limited time for entertainment. Still, they closely e……続きを見る

In a highly original and interdisciplinary work bridging French and Francophone studies, cultural studies, media studies, and gender and sexuality studies, Luis Navarro-Ayala examines the transnatio……続きを見る

The Africa Politics has hindered the development of the nation. African's lack of understanding of politics and its importance. Politics accepts people's opinions and the rule of many. Some African'……続きを見る

The work of Tunisian Jewish intellectual Albert Memmi, like that of many francophone Maghrebian writers, is often read as thinly veiled autobiography. Questioning the prevailing body of criticism, w……続きを見る

An ex-service man of the famous British West African Frontier Force comes back to devote himself as a benevolent worker. James Walker Gray realises he needs a youngman to help facilitate his work. T……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

This book offers new perspectives on the history of exploitation in Africa by examining postcolonial misrule as a product of colonial exploitation. Political independence has not produced inclusive ……続きを見る

Este libro La obra de J.M. Coetzee es de doble filo. Tiene vida propia y seapodera de obras ya escritas, modificando su alcance y sentido. Por ejemplo, la emblemática Robinson Crusoe, de Daniel Defo……続きを見る

The first collection of nonfiction critical writings by one of the leading literary figures of post-apartheid South Africa The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoë Wicomb, one of South Africa……続きを見る

Albinism is one of the foremost disability and public health issues in Africa today. It often makes headlines in local, national and international medias and forms the basis for intense advocacy at ……続きを見る

This concise edition of the biography of Walatta-Petros (1672) tells the story of an Ethiopian saint who lived from 1592 to 1642 and led a successful nonviolent movement to preserve African Christia……続きを見る

This book addresses the ways in which writers deploy the trope of contested criminality to expose Zimbabwe's socially and politically oppressive cultures in a wide range of novels and short stories ……続きを見る

Poor No More is a story about Craig Price, a rural North Carolinian who grew up in poverty. As an adult, Price evolved into a tycoon who had amassed a financial fortune. His lifestyle and persona, a……続きを見る

The publication of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) is heralded as the inaugural moment of modern African fiction, and the book remains the most widely read African novel of all time. Transl……続きを見る

In this book we have included introduction to the book, plot overview, about major characters, complete summary, and critical analysis. Although we know that some students do not want to read the or……続きを見る

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book asks the question: how has contemporary South African literature grappled with ideas of time and history during the political transition aw……続きを見る

This book provides the first comprehensive survey and collection of Nigerian diaspora literature, offering readings of novelists such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Atta, Helon Habila, Helen Oyey……続きを見る

A Century of Encounters analyzes Arab, American, and European literary depictions of self and other as they interact with each other in Arab North Africa throughout the twentieth century and introdu……続きを見る

Language and the construction of multiple identities in the Nigerian novel examines the multifaceted relation between people and the various identities they construct for themselves and for others t……続きを見る

É uma coletânea de textos sobre a literatura moçambicana no contexto da literatura mundial, produzidos pelo professor e crítico literário moçambicano Francisco Noa, entre 2008 a 2012. São ensaios, p……続きを見る

Em Império, mito e miopia: Moçambique como invenção literária, da série Ciências e Artes", Francisco Noa, professor moçambicano de Literatura, e ex-Reitor da Universidade Lúrio (UniLúrio), em Moçamb……続きを見る

Uns e outros na literatura moçambicana, ensaios é uma coletânea de textos produzidos pelo renomado professor e ensaísta moçambicano, Francisco Noa, atual reitor da Universidade do Lúrio (UniLúrio), ……続きを見る

Winner, 2021 African Literature Association First Book Award Should a writer work in a former colonial language or in a vernacular? The language question was one of the great, intractable problems t……続きを見る

This book examines the emotions expressed in Hausa women’s prose fiction in northern Nigeria, showing how Hausa Muslim women writers use fiction in their indigenous language to demonstrate and expre……続きを見る

Can a writer help to bring about a more just society? This question was at the heart of the movement of al-adab al-multazim, or committed literature, which claimed to dominate Arab writing in the mi……続きを見る

This book explores the salient ethical idea of personhood in African philosophy. It is a philosophical exposition that pursues the ethical and political consequences of the normative idea of personh……続きを見る

Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical t……続きを見る

In Conversation with Bessie Head shows how reading the novels and letters of Botswana's most influential writer, Bessie Head, fosters an ongoing conversation between reader and writer and is in fact……続きを見る