J. M. Coetzee - novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2003) - is widely recognized ......more

An interrogation of the poetry of Mazisi Kunene that places his work in the context of African literature and the richne......more

Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate South, Antarcti......more

The distinguished South African scholar and critic Graham Pechey was one of the leading voices in the debates about lite......more

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Typologies of Humor in African Literatures is a study on the use of humor and comedy in African literary texts across th......more

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Extending from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature is the first book ......more

Recent research has revealed that the borrowings in Yambo Ouologuem’s epochal novel Le Devoir de violence (Bound to Viol......more

"In what innovative ways do novels by diasporic Black women writers experiment with the representation of Black subjecti......more

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Focusing on texts from the late 1970s to the 1990s which document both changing attitudes to terminations of pregnancy a......more

This book shines a new light on J. E. Casely Hayford’s Ethiopia Unbound, widely considered the first English-language no......more

Milestones in African Literature offers an accessible guide to ten key moments in African literature. It traces literatu......more

Grounded in world-systemic analysis, this book revisits the literary and social implications of ’tragedy’ in relation to......more

This book provides an ecocritical analysis of the poetry of the famous Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare. The book interrogate......more

This book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma in contemporary eastern African litera......more

The first English translation of recent poetry by the late Mahmoud Darwish, the most important Palestinian contemporary ......more

Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performanc......more

An in-depth study of the Festival of India (1985-1986) in the United States, one of the biggest events ever mounted to p......more

Postcolonialism has long been associated with post-nationalism. Yet, the persistence of nation-oriented literatures from......more

Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: Authors, Semitic Studies, and Islamic Jurisprudence is the......more

Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms is the first of two volumes which sh......more

This book re-reads the last 60 years of Anglophone African women’s writing from a transnational and trans-historical fem......more

This book seeks to unfold the complexity within the works of Dambudzo Marechera and presents scholars and readers with a......more

This book is the first full-length study of the postsecular in African literatures. Religion, secularism, and the intric......more

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Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict goes beyon......more