Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories discusses the oral life stories and poems that Africans, particula......more
This book analyzes the strategies that Spanish and Hispano-African authors employ when writing about Africa in the conte......more
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This book discovers everyday forms of conviviality in fiction and life writing from Eastern and Southern Africa. It focu......more
This book discovers everyday forms of conviviality in fiction and life writing from Eastern and Southern Africa. It focu......more
African literature has never been more visible than it is today. Whereas Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Ngugi wa Thion......more
Of Cunning Men and Other Oddities Set in world established by The Cunning Man, six stories follow Hiram Woolley in the i......more
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This book deconstructs Eurocentric narratives and showcases local voices to re-examine childhood in Eastern Africa. Movi......more
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This volume opens up new perspectives on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, through the lens of a pivotal passage in th......more
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Gilgamesh focuses on the eponymous hero of the world’s oldest epic and his legendary adventures. However, it also goes f......more
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The Individual and the Authority Figure in Egyptian Prose Literature explores and analyses political conflicts between i......more
This book underscores the ethical dimension of Fanon’s work by focusing on the interplay of language, gender and colonia......more
The book is the first edited collection in English on Moroccan author Abdellah Taïa and frames the distinctiveness of hi......more
"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
"This book is a bilingual (Korean / English) poetry seventh collection by Yoon-Ho Cho, poet-editor, co-published by Cros......more
This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance. Gatheri......more
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"Fred Rosenblum is not going to let us off easy. He’s the anti-romantic - a blue-collar poet and bus driver’s son with a......more
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The magnitude of the legal violence exercised by the French to colonize and occupy Algeria (1830-1962) is such that only......more
In the decade before and after independence, Nigerians not only adopted the novel but reinvented the genre. Nigerian nov......more
In the decade before and after independence, Nigerians not only adopted the novel but reinvented the genre. Nigerian nov......more
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1. Chapter 1: Introduction: World Literature beyond Synchronism.- 2. Chapter 2: Dislocating Time: Nampally Road and the ......more
Metafiction and the Postwar Novel is a full-length reassessment of one of the definitive literary forms of the postwar p......more
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This book documents the work and stories told by Cabo Verdean women to refocus the narratives about Cabo Verde on Cabo V......more
The Minoritarian and Black Reason: A Philosophico-Literary Investigation looks at philosophical texts and novels from th......more
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Dike Okoro analyzes the various manifestations of ecocriticism and political activism in the poetry of Lupenga Mphande, ......more
African Women Writing Diaspora examines the works of contemporary African female writers through diaspora perspectives o......more
Making extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, f......more
This book examines the depiction of the Delta region of Nigeria through literature and other cultural art forms. The Nig......more
International scholars explore one of the most important postcolonial novels of African literature. Joint winner of Best......more
Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and mem......more
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"In conversation with the ghosts and the spaces these ghosts inhabit, At the Edge of the Dirac Sea interweaves personal ......more
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The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African literature. The Routle......more
This book examines the emotions expressed in Hausa women’s prose fiction in northern Nigeria, showing how Hausa Muslim w......more
The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. ......more
Post-Apartheid Gothic: White South African Writers and Space is at the crossroads between Gothic studies and postcolonia......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
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This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clari......more
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Ferment on the Fringes charts the trajectories of Francophone African narratives that reached the Anglo-American market,......more
Shame is one of the most frequent underlying emotions expressed throughout sub-Saharan African literature, yet studies o......more
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
This book examines the representation of figures, memories and images of childhood in selected contemporary diasporic Af......more
This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The......more
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"Kai Wiegandt’s study offers a nuanced, thoroughgoing and deeply engaging account of novelist J.M. Coetzee’s revision of......more
During the era of the slave trade, more than 12 million Africans were brought as slaves to the Americas. Their memories,......more
This book analyses the work of writers, journalists, and academic critics producing work during and since the end of the......more
This book investigates for precisely what purpose, on what philosophical grounds, and using what techniques, Algerian no......more
Contested Borders broadens understandings of dissident sexualities in Africa through focusing specifically on the Maghre......more
Zaynab, first published in 1913, is widely cited as the first Arabic novel, yet the previous eight decades saw hundreds ......more
Mongameli Anthony Mabona (1929) is a singular South African scholar with an exceptional life path. Yet, he is a wrongly ......more
The years between the 1920s and 1970s are key for the development of Caribbean literature, producing the founding canoni......more
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Absent the Archive is the first cultural history in English that is devoted to literary and visual representations of th......more
Absent the Archive is the first cultural history in English that is devoted to literary and visual representations of th......more
In Conversation with Bessie Head shows how reading the novels and letters of Botswana’s most influential writer, Bessie ......more
Narrating Human Rights in Africa claims human rights from the perspective of artists from the African continent and situ......more
This book celebrates Chinua Achebe, one of the most profound and famous African writers of our time, and his widely read......more
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatch......more
Abdelkébir Khatibi (1938-2009) is one of the greatest Moroccan thinkers, and one of the most important theorists of both......more
This special issue examines the ways fiction and poetry engage with environmental consciousness, and how African literar......more
Literary Black Power in the Caribbean focuses on the Black Power movement in the anglophone Caribbean as represented and......more
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Amēl-Marduk (561-560 BC), Neriglissar (559-556 BC), and Nabonidus (555-539 BC) were the last native kings of Babylon. In......more
Designs of Blackness provides less a narrative literary history than, precisely, a series of mappings - each literary-cr......more