Dike Okoro analyzes the various manifestations of ecocriticism and political activism in the poetry of Lupenga Mphande, ......more

African Women Writing Diaspora examines the works of contemporary African female writers through diaspora perspectives o......more

Making extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, f......more

International scholars explore one of the most important postcolonial novels of African literature. Joint winner of Best......more

Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and mem......more

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

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The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. ......more

Post-Apartheid Gothic: White South African Writers and Space is at the crossroads between Gothic studies and postcolonia......more

Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa sheds light on marginal bodies and the (post)colonial State, reveal......more

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This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clari......more

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Ferment on the Fringes charts the trajectories of Francophone African narratives that reached the Anglo-American market,......more

Shame is one of the most frequent underlying emotions expressed throughout sub-Saharan African literature, yet studies o......more

Publishing Africa in French was the winner of the African Literature Association’s First Book Award in 2018. It has beco......more

This book examines the representation of figures, memories and images of childhood in selected contemporary diasporic Af......more

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This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The......more

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During the era of the slave trade, more than 12 million Africans were brought as slaves to the Americas. Their memories,......more

This book analyses the work of writers, journalists, and academic critics producing work during and since the end of the......more

This book investigates for precisely what purpose, on what philosophical grounds, and using what techniques, Algerian no......more

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Zaynab, first published in 1913, is widely cited as the first Arabic novel, yet the previous eight decades saw hundreds ......more

Mongameli Anthony Mabona (1929) is a singular South African scholar with an exceptional life path. Yet, he is a wrongly ......more

The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing ......more

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Absent the Archive is the first cultural history in English that is devoted to literary and visual representations of th......more

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

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This book celebrates Chinua Achebe, one of the most profound and famous African writers of our time, and his widely read......more

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatch......more

Abdelkébir Khatibi (1938-2009) is one of the greatest Moroccan thinkers, and one of the most important theorists of both......more

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This special issue examines the ways fiction and poetry engage with environmental consciousness, and how African literar......more

Literary Black Power in the Caribbean focuses on the Black Power movement in the anglophone Caribbean as represented and......more

Amēl-Marduk (561-560 BC), Neriglissar (559-556 BC), and Nabonidus (555-539 BC) were the last native kings of Babylon. In......more

Designs of Blackness provides less a narrative literary history than, precisely, a series of mappings - each literary-cr......more

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This introduction to the literature of eSwatini follows a trajectory that reaches back to the country’s construction in ......more

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This book examines literary and cinematic representations of the European settlers of Algeria known as the pieds-noirs f......more

Russia’s Capitalist Realism examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dos......more

This book examines South Africa’s post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the so......more

In the first published book-length study of Indian fiction in South Africa, Pallavi Rastogi demonstrates that Indians de......more

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As the eighteenth century is entirely bereft of narratives written by African women, one might assume that these women h......more

Witches, Goddesses and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women’s Fiction explores ......more

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This book fills a gap in the field of contemporary trauma studies by interrogating the relevance of trauma for African l......more

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This book examines the colonial legacies and transnational identities of four minorities, orphans of Algeria: European s......more

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Tracing how central tensions in J.M. Coetzee’s fiction converge in and are made visible by the child figure, this book e......more

Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet rema......more

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Translingual Francophonie and the Limits of Translation proposes a novel theoretical lens for the study of translation a......more

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Winner of the Booker Prize for The Famished Road, Ben Okri is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary ......more

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book asks the question: how has contemporary South African literat......more

The problem of change recurs across Frantz Fanon’s writings. As a philosopher, psychiatrist, and revolutionary, Fanon wa......more

This edited book examines the crucial role still played by African languages in pedagogy and literatures in the 21st cen......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

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