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J. M. Coetzee - novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2003) - is widely recognized ......more
An experiment in reading for water, this book offers students and teachers a toolkit of methods that follow the sensory,......more
The texts that make up postcolonial print cultures are often found outside the archival catalogue, and in lesser-examine......more
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Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays met......more
Compelling memoir of Flora Veit-Wild and her relationship with the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist D......more
This book examines the complexities of women’s lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America ......more
We don’t live in an ideal world. Our lives are riddled with strife and struggles - which is a universal truth. We are bo......more
This book explores how modern Nigerian fiction is rooted in writers’ understanding of their identity and perception of N......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
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In Continuous Pasts, author Sakiru Adebayo claims that the post-conflict fiction of memory in Africa depicts the intrica......more
In Continuous Pasts, author Sakiru Adebayo claims that the post-conflict fiction of memory in Africa depicts the intrica......more
This book articulates a new theory of translation based on the estuary as metaphor for what translation can do at cultur......more
This book interrogates the relevance of trauma for African literatures, arguing that a thoughtful application of trauma ......more
Narrating Human Rights in Africa claims human rights from the perspective of artists from the African continent and situ......more
Affirming the wealth and diversity of the region which continues to inspire creative artistic productions, this book exa......more
This monograph explores the concept of mobility in Zimbabwean works of fiction published in English between the introduc......more
This book deconstructs Eurocentric narratives and showcases local voices to re-examine childhood in Eastern Africa....more
This book is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological te......more
This book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe appropriate supernatural devices like prophecies, dreams, beliefs, and div......more
Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories discusses the oral life stories and poems that Africans, particula......more
This book investigates the many ways in which contemporary African fiction has reflected on themes of responsibility and......more
This book explores the works of women writers and filmmakers across the African and African Diaspora world, reflecting o......more
This book investigates how representations of Black Africans have been negotiated over time in Arabic literature and fil......more
This book reflects on the ’literary’ in literature. Whether oral expression, Nobel laureates, or the rupturing event, th......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
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
This book explores the "battles" of words, songs, poetry, and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora. These are ......more
Named a Notable African Book of 2023 by Brittle Paper The Beauty Hunters offers a rare insight into Sudanese Bedouin poe......more
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
2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for ......more
2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for ......more
The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media. The digital space provides a n......more
Toward the Decolonization of the Europhone African Novel is a treatise on the problematics of language choice in Europho......more
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
In the context of a diversified and pluralistic arena of contemporary literature embodying previously marginalized voice......more
This work is the first book-length scholarly treatment of Nnedi Okorafor’s critically acclaimed fiction. Written for an ......more
A witty satire of the medical profession The Doctors’ Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novell......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
The first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire "[A] handsome ne......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
African Women Writing Diaspora examines the works of contemporary African female writers through diaspora perspectives o......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
Lauded by many as one of twentieth-century Spain’s greatest poets, José Ángel Valente (1929-2000) remains one of the def......more
Literary Black Power in the Caribbean focuses on the Black Power movement in the anglophone Caribbean as represented and......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
Contesting the Classroom is the first scholarly work to analyze both how Algerian and Moroccan novels depict the postcol......more
Investigations of the representation of Africa in British texts have typically concluded that the continent operated in ......more
Investigations of the representation of Africa in British texts have typically concluded that the continent operated in ......more
This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume......more
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 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
Africa is usually depicted in Western media as a continent plagued by continuous wars, civil conflicts, disease, and hum......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
Black women have been dehumanized through sexual objectification in the United States of America for hundreds of years a......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
Making extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, f......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
Fiction as History is an interdisciplinary analysis of over twenty Angolan novels written from the 1960s to the 2010s by......more
The Cameroons is in the grips of a perpetual tailspin. The confusion and lack of clarity in the nation threaten everyone......more
Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and allegori......more
This book examines 21st-century South African autobiographical writing that addresses the nation’s socio-political reali......more
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