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An Introduction to the Literature of Eswatini

An Introduction to the Literature of Eswatini

This introduction to the literature of eSwatini follows a trajectory that reaches back to the country’s construction in ......more

Performing the Pied-Noir Family: Constructing Narratives of Settler Memory and Identity in Literature and On-Screen

Performing the Pied-Noir Family: Constructing Narratives of Settler Memory and Identity in Literature and On-Screen

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

Russia’’s Capitalist Realism: Narrative Form and History in Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov

Russia’’s Capitalist Realism: Narrative Form and History in Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov

Russia’s Capitalist Realism examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dos......more

Russia’’s Capitalist Realism: Narrative Form and History in Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov

Russia’’s Capitalist Realism: Narrative Form and History in Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov

Russia’s Capitalist Realism examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dos......more

Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature: South Africa’’s Wounded Feelings

Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature: South Africa’’s Wounded Feelings

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

Witches, Goddesses, and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women’’s Fiction

Witches, Goddesses, and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women’’s Fiction

Witches, Goddesses and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women’s Fiction explores ......more

Afrindian Fictions: Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa

Afrindian Fictions: Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa

In the first published book-length study of Indian fiction in South Africa, Pallavi Rastogi demonstrates that Indians de......more

Imoinda’’s Shade: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808

Imoinda’’s Shade: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808

As the eighteenth century is entirely bereft of narratives written by African women, one might assume that these women h......more

The Algerian War in Film Fifty Years Later, 2004-2012

The Algerian War in Film Fifty Years Later, 2004-2012

This book examines the cultural, political, and aesthetic significance of narrative films made during the fiftieth-anniv......more

Trauma and Transformation in African Literature: Writing Wrongs

Trauma and Transformation in African Literature: Writing Wrongs

This book fills a gap in the field of contemporary trauma studies by interrogating the relevance of trauma for African l......more

Remnants of the Franco-Algerian Rupture: Archiving Postcolonial Minorities

Remnants of the Franco-Algerian Rupture: Archiving Postcolonial Minorities

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

J. M. Coetzees Poetics of the Child: Arendt, Agamben, and the (Ir)Responsibilities of Literary Creation

J. M. Coetzees Poetics of the Child: Arendt, Agamben, and the (Ir)Responsibilities of Literary Creation

Tracing how central tensions in J.M. Coetzee’s fiction converge in and are made visible by the child figure, this book e......more

Translingual Francophonie and the Limits of Translation

Translingual Francophonie and the Limits of Translation

Translingual Francophonie and the Limits of Translation proposes a novel theoretical lens for the study of translation a......more

The Worlding of the South African Novel: Spaces of Transition

The Worlding of the South African Novel: Spaces of Transition

The Worlding of the South African Novel develops from something of a paradox: that despite momentous political transitio......more

The Tough Alchemy of Ben Okri

The Tough Alchemy of Ben Okri

Winner of the Booker Prize for The Famished Road, Ben Okri is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary ......more

South African Writing in Transition

South African Writing in Transition

  • Ingram,出版日期:2020-08-20

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book asks the question: how has contemporary South African literat......more

Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change

Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change

The problem of change recurs across Frantz Fanon’s writings. As a philosopher, psychiatrist, and revolutionary, Fanon wa......more

Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change

Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change

The problem of change recurs across Frantz Fanon’s writings. As a philosopher, psychiatrist, and revolutionary, Fanon wa......more

African Languages and Literatures in the 21st Century

African Languages and Literatures in the 21st Century

  • Ingram,出版日期:2020-08-16

This edited book examines the crucial role still played by African languages in pedagogy and literatures in the 21st cen......more

Reading Coetzee’’s Women

Reading Coetzee’’s Women

  • Ingram,出版日期:2020-08-15

This is the first book to focus entirely on the under-researched but crucial topic of women in the work of J. M. Coetzee......more

Joke-Performance in Africa: Mode, Media and Meaning

Joke-Performance in Africa: Mode, Media and Meaning

  • Ingram,出版日期:2020-08-14

Jokes have always been part of African culture, but never have they been so blended with the strains and gains of the co......more

The Postcolonial Subject in Transit: Migration, Borders and Subjectivity in Contemporary African Diaspora Literature

The Postcolonial Subject in Transit: Migration, Borders and Subjectivity in Contemporary African Diaspora Literature

  • Ingram,出版日期:2020-08-13

Reconstructing transnational identities in postcolonial migration, The Postcolonial Subject in Transit highlights the co......more

Forms of Disappointment: Cuban and Angolan Narrative After the Cold War

Forms of Disappointment: Cuban and Angolan Narrative After the Cold War

Analyzes parallel developments in post-Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of re......more

Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature: Reading Beyond the Single Subject

Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature: Reading Beyond the Single Subject

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

Reincarnating Marechera: Notes on a Speculative Archive

Reincarnating Marechera: Notes on a Speculative Archive

Dambudzo Marechera’s death on August 18, 1987 is an event that remains unremarked. In Reincarnating Marechera: Notes On ......more

African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-Reading the Canon

African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-Reading the Canon

  • Ingram,出版日期:2020-06-23

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

World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time

World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time

1. Chapter 1: Introduction: World Literature beyond Synchronism.- 2. Chapter 2: Dislocating Time: Nampally Road and the ......more

Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature

Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature

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

Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries

Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries

Senegal Abroad explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant i......more

Impostures

Impostures

One of the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Books of the Year Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category Sho......more

Stock Markets and Development in Africa

Stock Markets and Development in Africa

Globalization is posing enormous challenges to development efforts in many African countries. One of the most daunting c......more

Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature

Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature

Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature is a critical study of environmental writing, covering a range ......more

Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century Najd

Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century Najd

Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisies A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and inve......more

Postapartheid Literature: Mourning and the Reinvention of Community

Postapartheid Literature: Mourning and the Reinvention of Community

This book explores the ways in which postapartheid literature reinvents South African mourning traditions. During the ap......more

Don Jadu

Don Jadu

Mqhayi dreams of the reunification of the Xhosa people under the leadership of Don Jadu, a high principled black statesm......more

No Matter When

No Matter When

Against the backdrop of the end of Mpande’s rule and the coming of the missionaries to Natal in the mid-1800s, a love st......more

Senkatana

Senkatana

Hear the legend of the infamous Kgodumodumo monster, who swallowed all the people, except one pregnant woman. In time, h......more

Stitching a Whirlwind: An Anthology of Southern African Poems and Translations

Stitching a Whirlwind: An Anthology of Southern African Poems and Translations

42 poems by 29 African poets, side-by-side in both languages, bring you descriptions of life, love and nature, the sinki......more

The Lawsuit of the Twins

The Lawsuit of the Twins

"I’m laying a charge!" Which of the twins -Babini or Wele - should inherit the homestead when their father dies? This cl......more

A Companion to João Paulo Borges Coelho: Rewriting the (Post)Colonial Remains

A Companion to João Paulo Borges Coelho: Rewriting the (Post)Colonial Remains

  • Ingram,出版日期:2020-03-24

This companion offers a critical overview of a great part of the literary oeuvre of the acclaimed Mozambican writer and ......more

A Poetics of Arabic Autobiography: Between Dissociation and Belonging

A Poetics of Arabic Autobiography: Between Dissociation and Belonging

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

Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past

Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past

This book examines the representation of figures, memories and images of childhood in selected contemporary diasporic Af......more

The Discourses: Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature--Volume One

The Discourses: Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature--Volume One

Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life Al-Hasan al-Yusi was arguably the most influential a......more

Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, Volume 4

Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, Volume 4

Since the early 1990s, about two thousand Idumean Aramaic ostraca have found their way onto the antiquities market and a......more

The Literary History of the Igbo Novel: African Literature in African Languages

The Literary History of the Igbo Novel: African Literature in African Languages

This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the......more

African Women Under Fire: Literary Discourses in War and Conflict

African Women Under Fire: Literary Discourses in War and Conflict

This book brings insight and scholarly breadth through literary criticism to the growing research on women, war, and con......more

The Desiring Modes of Being Black: Literature and Critical Theory

The Desiring Modes of Being Black: Literature and Critical Theory

This book explores how contemporary black literature challenges theoretical approaches of race, gender and sexualities....more

J.M. Coetzees Revisions of the Human: Posthumanism and Narrative Form

J.M. Coetzees Revisions of the Human: Posthumanism and Narrative Form

"Kai Wiegandt’s study offers a nuanced, thoroughgoing and deeply engaging account of novelist J.M. Coetzee’s revision of......more

Afropolitan Literature as World Literature

Afropolitan Literature as World Literature

  • Ingram,出版日期:2020-01-23

African literature has never been more visible than it is today. Whereas Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Ngugi wa Thion......more

A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • Ingram,出版日期:2020-01-17

A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism, art, ide......more

The Poetics of Ancient and Classical Arabic Literature: Orientology

The Poetics of Ancient and Classical Arabic Literature: Orientology

Through analysing ancient and classical Arabic literature, including the Qur’an, from within the Arabic literary traditi......more

Literature and Culture in Global Africa

Literature and Culture in Global Africa

Engaging and interrogating the idea of a Global Africa , this book examines how African literary and cultural productio......more

Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture

Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture

This book responds to the failures of human rights--the way its institutions and norms reproduce geopolitical imbalances......more

The Comic Imagination in Modern African Literature and Cinema: A Poetics of Laughter

The Comic Imagination in Modern African Literature and Cinema: A Poetics of Laughter

This book is a seminal study that significantly expands the interdisciplinary discourse on African literature and cinema......more

Food and Foodways in African Narratives: Community, Culture, and Heritage

Food and Foodways in African Narratives: Community, Culture, and Heritage

Food is a defining feature in every culture. Despite its very basic purpose of sustaining life, it directly impacts the ......more

Imagined States: Law and Literature in Nigeria, 1900-66

Imagined States: Law and Literature in Nigeria, 1900-66

Imagined States examines representations of the law in British and Nigerian high-brow, middle-brow and popular fiction a......more

Alt 37: African Literature Today

Alt 37: African Literature Today

  • Ingram,出版日期:2019-11-15

Contemporary African creative writers have confidently taken strides which resonate all over the world. The daring diver......more

The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright

The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright

Science has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, ......more

Contesting the Classroom: Reimagining Education in Moroccan and Algerian Literatures

Contesting the Classroom: Reimagining Education in Moroccan and Algerian Literatures

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

Luso-American Literatures and Cultures Today, Volume 32

Luso-American Literatures and Cultures Today, Volume 32

  • Ingram,出版日期:2019-10-04

This issue of PLCS takes a transnational approach to contemporary Luso-American literatures and cultures from across the......more

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