With global debt, labor, and environmental crises on the rise, the precarious position of people in the Global South has......more

With global debt, labor, and environmental crises on the rise, the precarious position of people in the Global South has......more

How can traditions be subversive? The kinship between African traditions and novels has been under debate for the better......more

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

Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers re......more

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Lanie Millar is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Oregon....more

In Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas, author C......more

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

The Desert and the Drum is the first novel ever to be translated into English from Mauritania. It won the Ahmadou-Kourou......more

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Where there are dictators, there are novels about dictators. But "dictator novels" do not simply respond to the reality ......more

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In Conversation with Bessie Head shows how reading the novels and letters of Botswana’s most influential writer, Bessie ......more

Maghrebi literature published in the first half of the twentieth century is a subject that seldom receives focused schol......more

This is a compilation of poetry written by Arabic women poets from pre-Islamic times to the end of the Abbasid caliphate......more

"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learnin......more

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First published in 1973, this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkabl......more

Poetry. LOGOGRAPHY: A POETRY OMNIBUS brings together three collections of extraordinarily vigorous and electric poetry f......more

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Unusable pasts; scandalous lives; political betrayal, confession and collaboration: reading narrative non-fiction across......more

This scrupulous new translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh manages to convey much of the archaic power and even something ......more

This book examines the emotions expressed in Hausa women’s prose fiction in northern Nigeria, showing how Hausa Muslim w......more

The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African literature. The Routle......more

Laugh-out-loud fun for animal lovers of all ages Sniff Tips, Running Sticks, and Other "Accurately" Named Animal Parts. ......more

Winner, 2021 African Literature Association First Book Award Should a writer work in a former colonial language or in a ......more

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

This book examines a selection of prison memoirs by five renowned African writers - Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Ruth First, Wole ......more

This book provides the first comprehensive survey and collection of Nigerian diaspora literature, offering readings of n......more

A collection of previously published essays. Dates of original publication range from 1986 to 2011....more

When Petra and her dad take a birthday fishing trip, she learns about hunger and sharing as she interacts with people on......more

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Challenges current approaches to African book history by setting up a dialogue between literary production and the texts......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

In Arab-Jewish Literature: The Birth and Demise of the Arabic Short Story, Reuven Snir offers an account of the emergenc......more

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First-hand accounts of how Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s life and work have intersected, and the multiple forces that have converg......more

Four years after the publication of the Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume I (Brill, 2014), this volume present t......more

This is the first comprehensive book-length study of gender politics in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s fiction. Brendon Nicholls ar......more

Today, the "fight to write"--the struggle to become the legitimate chronicler of one’s own story--is being waged and won......more

Today, the fight to write --the struggle to become the legitimate chronicler of one s own story--is being waged and won......more

This concise edition of the biography of Walatta-Petros (1672) tells the story of an Ethiopian saint who lived from 1592......more

The first collection of nonfiction critical writings by one of the leading literary figures of post-apartheid South Afri......more

The study of Arabic literature is blossoming. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to help research ......more

The publication of Chinua Achebe s Things Fall Apart (1958) is heralded as the inaugural moment of modern African fictio......more

Since the early 1990s, about two thousand Idumean Aramaic ostraca have found their way into museums, libraries, and priv......more

Michael Andindilile in The Anglophone Literary-Linguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literar......more

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

The Chadian writer Nimrod--philosopher, poet, novelist, and essayist--is one of the most dynamic and vital voices in con......more

Unravel the enigma of human identity and delve into the captivating debates surrounding our origins with "Humans." This ......more

Poems of love and battle by Arabia s legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsul......more

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Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Arabic by Michael Sells. BEWILDERED contains new translations of Ibn......more

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

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Winner of the Global Humanities Translation Prize Hallaj is the first authoritative translation of the Arabic poetry of ......more

In The Tears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world toda......more

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

This book considers the political potential of affective experiences of desire as reflected in contemporary South Africa......more

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In Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song, Tara T. Green turns to twentiet......more

WINNER OF THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2016 The author meticulously contextualises the experiences of Achebe and his pe......more

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