An interrogation of the poetry of Mazisi Kunene that places his work in the context of African literature and the richne......more

Against the backdrop of media representations of Africa through persistent and pervasive images of emaciated, starving A......more

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This original exploration of Arab autobiographical discourse investigates various modes of cultural identity that have e......more

To understand today’s Arab thinking, you need to go back to the beginnings of modernity: the nahdah or Arab renaissance ......more

Wen-Chin Ouyang explores the development of the Arabic novel, especially the ways in it engages with aesthetics, ethics ......more

Gender studies in Arabic literature has become equated with women’s writing, leaving aside the possibility of a radical ......more

This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the establis......more

A visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation A bold, experimental intervention in lite......more

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests a n......more

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests a n......more

Explores the life and journalism of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira, highlighting her powerful role as a voice of resistance......more

African Oral Literature: An Introduction guides us from the very beginnings of African oral traditions, through the whol......more

African Oral Literature: An Introduction guides us from the very beginnings of African oral traditions, through the whol......more

Angola, a nation formed by the trans-Atlantic slave trade, has a unique identity in Africa, enshrined in its hybridized,......more

Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature explores how normative ideas of sex and gender have shaped the development of ......more

In what innovative ways do novels by diasporic Black women writers experiment with the representation of Black subjectiv......more

Examines six African American writers who use the cultural and historical past to imagine a different present and future......more

This book, with a focus on the East African coast and especially on the Kenyan coast, puts into conversation cross-gener......more

This book, with a focus on the East African coast and especially on the Kenyan coast, puts into conversation cross-gener......more

This book explores the nexus between religion and literature in J. M. Coetzee’s writings, as they relate to his readings......more

This is a collection of fresh perspectives and opinions on the creative interventions on the Nigerian literary and enter......more

This monograph explores female agency in Moroccan postcolonial literature through the works of Fatima Mernissi, Leila Ab......more

Key study on writer and activist Kgositsile that presents a new approach to studying the radicalism of Africa and its di......more

Akínwùmí Ìsòlá (1940-2018), renowned writer, scholar, and sentinel of indigenous African languages, contributed to the d......more

An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and prolifera......more

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa’s most important early twentieth-century statesman an......more

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging and innovative study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debat......more

This volume offers literary histories and analyses of a wide range of genres in African literature and verbal arts. It p......more

This book addresses the pressing issues of environmentalism and its representations in African literature. It emphasizes......more

The long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West Africa Printed books did not reach West Africa until th......more

First published in 1989, Chronicles of Darkness is about images of Africa seen through the eyes of writers, visitors, re......more

Postcolonialism has long been associated with post-nationalism. Yet, the persistence of nation-oriented literatures from......more

Reading Mohamed Choukri’s Narratives presents an intricate exploration into the life and literary universe of Mohamed Ch......more

Explores new forms of cosmopolitan identity constructed in contemporary diasporic fictions The expanding number of migra......more

Explores new forms of cosmopolitan identity constructed in contemporary diasporic fictions The expanding number of migra......more

Essays examining the poetry and leading poets of the Xhosa-speaking peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Th......more

Essays examining isiXhosa oral literature, novels and journalism and the interconnections between them in the nineteenth......more

Articles on Xhosa language and folklore Robert Godfrey’s major contribution to Xhosa-language studies is his revised and......more

Originally published in 1980, this book introduces the student to twelve of the most exciting and significant African au......more

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender examines the depictions of men, women and masculinities in Nig......more

This book provides an ecocritical analysis of the poetry of Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare, interrogating the intricate int......more

Examining a wide variety of poets from the last three decades of the 20th century to the present, from Asian, African, S......more

In African literature, Christianity has long been represented as a foreign religion, associated with the history and ong......more

In African literature, Christianity has long been represented as a foreign religion, associated with the history and ong......more

This book offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as formed by and itself a form of collective memory. I......more

This book presents a distinctive viewpoint on the significance of sacred spaces in postcolonial literature while illumin......more

This open access edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of scholars to investigate the concept of transf......more

This book considers how the literature of the Somali diaspora deploys themes of ambivalent belonging in cosmopolitan spa......more

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. Mad Fictions is the first book to ......more

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Petroforms contributes a much-needed theory of form and genre to the cutting-edge field of petrocriticism, itself an off......more

Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict intervenes......more

This book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma in contemporary eastern African litera......more

Global commodities, from tea and sugar to coal and oil, have had an enduring presence in literary texts. Commodity cultu......more

Exile is often perceived as an irreversible rupture, a state of loss and estrangement. Yet, in African and Caribbean lit......more

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Af......more

This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe’s novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works ar......more

Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms is the first of two volumes that sho......more

Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence is the......more

Groundbreaking examination of literary production in West African newspapers and local printing presses in the first hal......more

The texts that make up postcolonial print cultures are often found outside the archival catalogue, and in lesser-examine......more

A collection of interdisciplinary critical essays examining the political and aesthetic practices of Martinican French a......more

Postcolonial Mythology and Ethnic Self-Canonization in Biafran Fiction and Activism explores the ways in which communiti......more

This book examines the intricate relationship between English literature and British civilisation, arguing that while li......more

TOWARD A LIVING ARCHIVE OF AFRICAN POETRY collects Kwame Dawes’s and Chris Abani’s introductory essays for the New-Gener......more

This collection of essays considers the significance of South African-born writer, activist and thinker Olive Schreiner ......more

This book examines the work of Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa’s most prolific and ground-breaking writers, and argu......more

As a part of Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literature, the book explores the complex of ways in which Ngugi wa Thio......more

This book offers a nuanced analysis of the ways in which Egyptian and British novels represent the Egyptian nationalist ......more

This collection brings together African scholars in Africa and the diaspora to contribute to scholarly debates about cri......more

Through a postcolonial lens, this book explores the various ways in which francophone writers, visual artists and activi......more