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Narrating Human Rights in Africa claims human rights from the perspective of artists from the African continent and situ......more

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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

"Drawing on her personal experience as a Nigerian, Emmanuela C. Nwokeke C.P. provides a fresh analysis of the socio-poli......more

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Named a Notable African Book of 2023 by Brittle Paper The Beauty Hunters offers a rare insight into Sudanese Bedouin poe......more

At Home With Ivan Vladislavic is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavic. Bringing a flaneur’s......more

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Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa sheds light on marginal bodies and the (post)colonial State, reveal......more

This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria’s third-generation literature, which emerged between th......more

Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African diaspora studies: the e......more

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

This book provides a substantive, reliable, and accessible comparison of the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1-11, investigat......more

This book provides a substantive, reliable, and accessible comparison of the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1-11, investigat......more

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

With clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translati......more

This book documents the work and stories told by Cabo Verdean women to refocus the narratives about Cabo Verde on Cabo V......more

This book analyzes the strategies that Spanish and Hispano-African authors employ when writing about Africa in the conte......more

With three highly successful international conferences and other salutary events in Tanure Ojaide’s honour over the last......more

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

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

This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance. Gatheri......more

This collection serves as a showcase for literary translation research with a focus on African perspectives, highlightin......more

This book investigates the cultural connections between Africa and the Caribbean, using the lens of Mobility Studies to ......more

Omi Osun Joni L. Jones provides the first full-length study of an artistic form, the theatrical jazz aesthetic, that dra......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

Shortlist--2023 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize Winner--2022 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize Nineteenth-century European representa......more

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This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume......more

This book is a collection of essays on Yvonne Owuor’s writings, mainly her most acclaimed novel, Dust as well as Dragonf......more

"The ancient author of these poems (teaching songs) is St. Ephrem the Syrian (ca. 307-373), a native of the city of Nisi......more

This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nomine......more

This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo ......more

The enormous success of writers such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie demonstrates that African literatures are......more

This book offers an innovative new framework for reading British and settler representations of Indigenous peoples in th......more

Explores and interrogates the many and diverse perspectives of the new frontiers of African literary studies. Publicatio......more

Poetry, Proverbs, metaphors and talking with wisdom and wholly illumination; this book will enlighten you to be wise, wi......more

One of the lasting legacies of colonialism is the assumption that families should conform to a kinship arrangement built......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

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

Literary critics have focused on the nexus between literature and the ecological environment. As a mirror of society, li......more

Literary Connections between South Africa and the Lusophone World examines the connections between the literatures and c......more

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

The Cameroons is in the grips of a perpetual tailspin. The confusion and lack of clarity in the nation threaten everyone......more

An exploration of the zombie figure across film and literature from the Caribbean, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, In......more

This book examines 21st-century South African autobiographical writing that addresses the nation’s socio-political reali......more

"Words that are spoken fly like the wind. Words that are written live forever." Aniceti Kitereza spoke those words while......more

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

Legacies of Departed African Writers analyzes and celebrates the resounding contributions of ten deceased African female......more

Throughout the twentieth century, Nigerians have been writing about their travels within Nigeria using a variety of medi......more

This book examines the colonial legacies and transnational identities of four minorities, orphans of Algeria: European s......more

This book examines literary and cinematic representations of the European settlers of Algeria known as the pieds-noirs f......more

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

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

This edited volume provides a wide- ranging introduction to the novelistic oeuvre of the prize- winning author Abdulraza......more

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Translated into English for the first time after its publication in 1967, Ghassan Kanafani’s On Zionist Literature makes......more

Contested Borders broadens understandings of dissident sexualities in Africa through examining new representations of sa......more

This handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing with groups of people or regions that suffer marginaliz......more

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A rich collection of captivating and remarkable chapters, Writing Namibia Coming of Age presents research of senior acad......more