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Legacies of Departed African Writers analyzes and celebrates the resounding contributions of ten deceased African female......more

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A witty satire of the medical profession The Doctors’ Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novell......more

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Key study on writer and activist Kgositsile that presents a new approach to studying the radicalism of Africa and its di......more

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A trilingual experimental collection bringing together an impressive array of contemporary Arab poets and literary trans......more

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This edited volume provides a wide- ranging introduction to the novelistic oeuvre of the prize- winning author Abdulraza......more

This book argues that the novel can enrich the critique of white saviorism while also imagining alternatives....more

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Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in ......more

Informed by a global space animated by various conflicts, this book brings a refreshing perspective on how the disciplin......more

This book is an in-depth study of the category "stranger" as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of fe......more

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South African London studies literary responses to London by exiled and émigré South Africans between 1948 and 2005 and ......more

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The idea of universalism inherited from the French Revolution has been strongly discredited by its colonial history; tod......more

This book looks at contemporary autobiographical works by writers with African backgrounds in relation to the idea of ’p......more

Groundbreaking examination of literary production in West African newspapers and local printing presses in the first hal......more

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A selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt’s premier poet. Iman Mersal is Egypt’s--indeed, the Arab ......more

This book explores literary representations of African immigrant experiences in Western countries, against the backdrop ......more

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This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the y......more

This book approaches the study of AfroEurope through narrative forms produced in contemporary France, a location which r......more

The book presents an intertextual and comparative analysis of memories of violence in Peruvian and Congolese Literature.......more

This book demonstrates the insights that literature brings to transdisciplinary urban studies, and particularly to the s......more

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

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An experiment in reading for water, this book offers students and teachers a toolkit of methods that follow the sensory,......more

The texts that make up postcolonial print cultures are often found outside the archival catalogue, and in lesser-examine......more

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This book examines the complexities of women’s lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America ......more

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This book explores how modern Nigerian fiction is rooted in writers’ understanding of their identity and perception of N......more

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This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the field of language contact and multilingualism in ancient ......more

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This book articulates a new theory of translation based on the estuary as metaphor for what translation can do at cultur......more

Narrating Human Rights in Africa claims human rights from the perspective of artists from the African continent and situ......more

Affirming the wealth and diversity of the region which continues to inspire creative artistic productions, this book exa......more

This monograph explores the concept of mobility in Zimbabwean works of fiction published in English between the introduc......more

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This book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe appropriate supernatural devices like prophecies, dreams, beliefs, and div......more

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An exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally a......more

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