"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

Shortlisted for the SAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2020 ’Honorable Mention’ for the ALA First Book Award - Scholarship 2021 A ......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

This book explores how modern Nigerian fiction is rooted in writers’ understanding of their identity and perception of N......more

Contested Borders broadens understandings of dissident sexualities in Africa through focusing specifically on the Maghre......more

The Leadership Scorecard is a book that examines Black leadership over the last 50 years. Thirteen Black leaders, past a......more

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

Africa is usually depicted in Western media as a continent plagued by continuous wars, civil conflicts, disease, and hum......more

Winner of the 2021 ALA Book of the Year Award - Scholarship The author uses the image of blood under the skin as a way o......more

The first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire "[A] handsome ne......more

Finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Translation Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fad......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

This book uses the conceptual framework of animism, the belief in the spiritual qualities of nonhuman matter, to analyze......more

Winner of the 2020 ALA Book of the Year Award - Scholarship Examines the ways in which space and spatial structures have......more

This book examines how Chinua Achebe presented the Igbo-African world in his writing by analyzing his engagement with cr......more

Arda Collins’s second book of poems, STAR LAKE, is a deeply personal collection that explores the ways our notions of da......more

Beyond Collective Memory investigates the elisions of "memory," and invites an exploration of the African pasts and imag......more

This book approaches the study of AfroEurope through narrative forms produced in contemporary France, a location which r......more

This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the y......more

The rapid global spread of populism has become an arresting and often disturbing phenomenon in the opening decades of th......more

This volumeprobes the interdisciplinary relationships between African literature and African philosophy within the conte......more

This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clari......more

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Touching on global issues such as violence, sexual abuse, gender, performativity, marginality, migration and human right......more

Decolonization and White Africans examines how African decolonization affected white Africans in eight countries - Alger......more

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

"If you dare open Jerry Bradley’s Rapunzel’s Parrot (his 6th book of poems) you will read your eyes out, a fate better t......more

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

Winner of the 2022 College Language Association Book Prize Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe--author of Things Fall Apart,......more

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

In the first decades after the end of French rule, Francophone authors engaged in an exercise of rewriting narratives fr......more

The book presents an intertextual and comparative analysis of memories of violence in Peruvian and Congolese Literature.......more

Spectres from the Past: The "History" of Slavery in West African and African-American Narratives examines the merit of t......more

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This book celebrates Chinua Achebe, one of the most profound and famous African writers of our time, and his widely read......more

"The artist Roni Horn’s permanent installation in Iceland, Library of Water, consists of floor-to-ceiling cylinders fill......more

"In a vaguely familiar time and place, children gathered inside the grey walls of a hospital are given diagnoses they do......more

Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women’s writ......more

In the global imagination, Paris is the city’s glamorous center, ignoring the Muslim residents in its outskirts except i......more

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

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"In Brian Glaser’s third collection, meditations on spirituality and art continue to permeate his work. These poems are ......more

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatch......more

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This book examines South Africa’s post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the so......more

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This timely and expansive biography of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate, and social activist, shows how......more

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This book examines the poetics of autobiographical masterpieces written in Arabic by Leila Abouzeid, Hanan al-Shaykh, Sa......more

This book explores the unique contributions of various forms of post-2000 life-writings such as the autobiography, epist......more

Demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, political and intellectual diversity of children’s literature across the globe, T......more

This book explores the works of women writers and filmmakers across the African and African Diaspora world, reflecting o......more

Comprising contributions from writers, scholars, friends, and former students around the world, think of this anthology ......more

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

This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of ......more

The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe introduces readers to the life, literary works, and times of arguably the most widel......more

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This book demonstrates the insights that literature brings to transdisciplinary urban studies, and particularly to the s......more