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This work explores the contributions of Jean Price-Mars to Haitian history and culture and interprets his connections wi......more

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CUSAS 29 (2017) contains a critical edition of 206 tablets from the Rosen Collection at Cornell University and come from......more

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

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This volume presents a selection of 216 Old Babylonian letters as a first installment of the Sch yen Collection’s holdin......more

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

This book explores from various perspectives how the literature of the northern region of Nigeria has promoted the ideol......more

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Examines literature and art to reveal the German genocidal gaze in Africa and the Holocaust. The first genocide of the t......more

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Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham. Here is ADRENALIN, Syrian-born, Stockhol......more

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This book analyses Black Consciousness poetry and theatre from the 1970s through to the present. South Africa s literatu......more

For more than a century cars have symbolized autonomous, unfettered mobility and an increasingly global experience. And ......more

Alert to the ways in which critical theory and imaginative literature can enrich each other, African Literature and Soci......more

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The papers in this volume focus on fiction and theatre in their traditional forms as well as in their encounters with no......more

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This book is a collection of fifteen plays that capture the very essence of politics in Africa: the corruption, the sche......more

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

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Is crime fiction the new political novel in South Africa? Why did the apartheid censors disapprove of crime fiction mo......more

Elizabeth Taylor’s reflections on South African fiction are rooted in the political and social realities which dictated,......more

Leading scholars show how laughter and satire in early modern Britain functioned in a variety of contexts both to affirm......more

This groundbreaking work, first published in 1989, was one of the first to challenge the conventional critical assessmen......more

This now classic work examines the contrasting ways in which the Mau Mau struggle for land and independence in Kenya was......more

David Maughan-Brown s authoritative work on the Mau Mau Uprising during the 1950s in Kenya, examines how the Mau Mau str......more

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Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautifu......more

Ethnosensitive Dimensions of African Oral Literature: Igbo Perspectives is a collection of nineteen essays spanning all ......more

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C. G. Jung understood the anima in a wide variety of ways but especially as a multifaceted archetype and as a field of e......more

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Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada is the first book to examine how Laurence addresses decolonization and nation......more

Published in Tunis in 1938, Ninette of Sin Street is one of the first works of Tunisian fiction in French. Ninette’s aut......more

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Disputing the claim that Algerian writing during the struggle against French colonial rule dealt almost exclusively with......more

Arabic Literature for the Classroom argues for a more visible presence of Arabic within the humanities and social scienc......more

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

How do great moments in literary traditions arise from times of intense social and political upheaval? South African Lit......more

This volume in appreciation of Getatchew Haile includes twenty-six articles by an international community of scholars, w......more

In the last 20 years or so, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda has inspired a number of creative writers who were eager to repr......more

In the last 20 years or so, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda has inspired a number of creative writers who were eager to repr......more

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A major new study of Africa’s most important writer, offering a comprehensive reassessment of Achebe’s work as a novelis......more

Representations and visions of home, homeland, and nation are perennial themes in Arabic literary writing. In its most r......more

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Through multiple points of resistance, The Repressed Expressed underscores how hard it is to build a community in any na......more

This is the first English translation of an award winning book published in Afrikaans in 1989. It engages critically and......more

In the week between July 21 and 25, 2014, the University of Warsaw hosted more than three hundred Assyriologists from al......more

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This book proposes feminist empathy as a model of interpretation in the works of contemporary Anglophone African women w......more

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Donald Wehrs explores pioneering narrative representations of pre-colonial African history and society in texts by Casel......more

This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her -original- o......more