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

Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate South, Antarcti......more

The distinguished South African scholar and critic Graham Pechey was one of the leading voices in the debates about lite......more

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Typologies of Humor in African Literatures is a study on the use of humor and comedy in African literary texts across th......more

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Extending from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature is the first book ......more

Recent research has revealed that the borrowings in Yambo Ouologuem’s epochal novel Le Devoir de violence (Bound to Viol......more

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

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Focusing on texts from the late 1970s to the 1990s which document both changing attitudes to terminations of pregnancy a......more

This book shines a new light on J. E. Casely Hayford’s Ethiopia Unbound, widely considered the first English-language no......more

Milestones in African Literature offers an accessible guide to ten key moments in African literature. It traces literatu......more

Grounded in world-systemic analysis, this book revisits the literary and social implications of ’tragedy’ in relation to......more

This book provides an ecocritical analysis of the poetry of the famous Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare. The book interrogate......more

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

The first English translation of recent poetry by the late Mahmoud Darwish, the most important Palestinian contemporary ......more

Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performanc......more

An in-depth study of the Festival of India (1985-1986) in the United States, one of the biggest events ever mounted to p......more

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

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

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

This book re-reads the last 60 years of Anglophone African women’s writing from a transnational and trans-historical fem......more

This book seeks to unfold the complexity within the works of Dambudzo Marechera and presents scholars and readers with a......more

This book is the first full-length study of the postsecular in African literatures. Religion, secularism, and the intric......more

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

"The most celebrated writer of verse in the Arab world." -Adam Shatz, The New York Times Poetry from former national poe......more

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

A witty satire of the medical profession The Doctors’ Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novell......more

Yέ Gorógoró Yaa: Dagaare Folktales in Parallel Texts is a relevant book on Dagaare oral literature and complements earli......more

"Simultaneously transnational and local, poetry in the twenty-first century is produced across digital networks, shaped ......more

A trilingual experimental collection bringing together an impressive array of contemporary Arab poets and literary trans......more

The present volume is to date the only comprehensive study of the beginnings of narrative prose writing in South Africa,......more

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

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In this volume Blake Hartung explores the place of the passion and death of Jesus in the writings of Ephrem of Nisibis (......more

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This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the field of language contact and multilingualism in ancient ......more

The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems gathers together works by a select number of Palestinian poets, over the past se......more

In Continuous Pasts, author Sakiru Adebayo claims that the post-conflict fiction of memory in Africa depicts the intrica......more

An exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally a......more

An exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally a......more

Across contiguous nation-states in Eastern Africa, the geographic proximity disguises an ideological complexity. Land ha......more

This work is the first book-length scholarly treatment of Nnedi Okorafor’s critically acclaimed fiction. Written for an ......more

Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing is the first book to bring rigorous literary, philosophical......more

The highly-charged debate over Morocco’s diasporic minorities in Europe has led to a growing interest in the literary pr......more

Revisionary Narratives examines the historical and formal evolutions of Moroccan women’s auto/biography in the last four......more

Contesting the Classroom is the first scholarly work to analyze both how Algerian and Moroccan novels depict the postcol......more

This work presents the complete collection of oral poetry by ad-Dindān, a bedouin poet of the Duwāsir tribe in southern ......more

The first book-length study of London as a maritime writer Jack London’s fiction has been studied previously for its the......more

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"This volume, The Butterfly Cemetery, is a collection of prose pieces written between the years 2008 to 2021 by the Ital......more

Winner of the 10th annual Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Award for 2021 Slow, not cautious, a heartbeat away fr......more

"A fictionalized account of collateral damage done by the FBI COINTELPRO operations in the 1960s, told in verse form"--...more

This volume brings together the most significant essays on South African literature by the distinguished critic Graham P......more

"IMMORTAL SEEDS, is a remarkable book, a passionate weaving together of poems and paintings that in turn reveal the inti......more

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"The wars at issue in ’Some Words on Those Wars’ are the two great World Wars. In 2020, John Matthias published a long s......more

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In the decade before and after independence, Nigerians not only adopted the novel but reinvented the genre. Nigerian nov......more

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During what has become officially known as the genocide against the Tutsi, as many as one million Rwandan people were br......more

Publishing Africa in French was the winner of the African Literature Association’s First Book Award in 2018. It has beco......more