This book explores the significance of corporeality in literature through a "South-South" comparison of the works of Col......more

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

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational,......more

Explores new forms of cosmopolitan identity constructed in contemporary diasporic fictions The expanding number of migra......more

Explores new forms of cosmopolitan identity constructed in contemporary diasporic fictions The expanding number of migra......more

What if the strongest shackles were not made of iron, but of faith? For centuries, the narrative of African history has ......more

Articles on Xhosa language and folklore Robert Godfrey’s major contribution to Xhosa-language studies is his revised and......more

Essays examining the poetry and leading poets of the Xhosa-speaking peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Th......more

Essays examining isiXhosa oral literature, novels and journalism and the interconnections between them in the nineteenth......more

This book investigates how Zimbabwean literary texts subvert state-sponsored amnesia when it comes to the many forms of ......more

Masculinities in Nigerian Fiction: Receptivity and Gender examines the depictions of men, women and masculinities in Nig......more

This book provides an ecocritical analysis of the poetry of Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare, interrogating the intricate int......more

Examining a wide variety of poets from the last three decades of the 20th century to the present, from Asian, African, S......more

In African literature, Christianity has long been represented as a foreign religion, associated with the history and ong......more

In African literature, Christianity has long been represented as a foreign religion, associated with the history and ong......more

This book offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as formed by and itself a form of collective memory. I......more

This book presents a distinctive viewpoint on the significance of sacred spaces in postcolonial literature while illumin......more

This open access edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of scholars to investigate the concept of transf......more

This book considers how the literature of the Somali diaspora deploys themes of ambivalent belonging in cosmopolitan spa......more

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. Mad Fictions is the first book to ......more

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Petroforms contributes a much-needed theory of form and genre to the cutting-edge field of petrocriticism, itself an off......more

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

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