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Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	The Place of Tears The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe Ranka Primorac Tauris Academic Studies This book examines the complete opus of the recently-deceased Yvonne Vera and texts by five other acclaimed Zimbabwean writers against a backdrop of...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	Grammars of Colonialism Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa Rachael Gilmour Palgrave Macmillan The study of languages was crucial to colonial power in 18th and 19th-century South Africa. This important book examines representations of the South African...

Trade Paperback : $36.95 Buy	African Literature as Political Philosophy Africa in the New Millennium M.S.C. Okolo Zed Books This book looks in particular at Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah and Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, but situates these within the broader context of...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	South African Literature after the Truth Commission Mapping Loss Shane Graham Palgrave Macmillan In the wake of apartheid, South African culture conveys the sense of being lost in time and space. The Truth Commission provided an opportunity for South...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	The Politics of History in Contemporary Africa Michael Onyebuchi Eze Palgrave Macmillan This book mediates a dialectics between power and subjectivity versus history and politics. The invention of Africa is not merely a residue of Africa’s...

Hardcover : $92.00 Buy	Gender and Identity in North Africa Postcolonialism and Feminism in Maghrebi Women's Literature Library of Modern Middle East Studies Abdelkader Cheref Tauris Academic Studies Literary fiction has always provided an outlet for social and political critique. In the writing of key North African women authors, the dissection of Maghrebi...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Women's Literature in Kenya and Uganda The Trouble with Modernity Marie Kruger Palgrave Macmillan For nearly a decade, writers’ collectives such as Kwani Trust in Kenya and Femrite, the Ugandan women writers’ association, have dramatically reshaped the East...

Trade Paperback : $34.95 Buy	African Intellectuals Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender and Development Africa in the New Millennium Edited by Thandika Makandawire Zed Books Compared with Asia or Latin America, Africa has experienced much higher rates of emigration of its intelligentsia to North America and Europe, and frequent...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	African Pasts Memory and History in African Literatures Tim Woods Manchester University Press African Pasts examines African literatures in English since the end of colonialism, investigating how they represent African history through the twin matrices...

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	The Fiction of Chinua Achebe Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Jago Morrison Palgrave Macmillan An approachable and authoritative guide to one of the most important authors in modern African writing.

Trade Paperback : $33.00 Buy	Black British Writing Edited by R. Victoria Arana and Lauri Ramey Palgrave Macmillan This collection of essays provides an imaginative international perspective on ways to incorporate black British writing and culture in the study of English...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	On the Sacred in African Literature Old Gods and New Worlds Mark Mathuray Palgrave Macmillan This innovative book provides an original approach to the analysis of the representation of myth, ritual, and magic in African literature. Emphasizing the...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa Michael Onyebuchi Eze Palgrave Macmillan In examining the intellectual history in contemporary South Africa, Eze engages with the emergence of ubuntu as one discourse that has become a mirror and...

Hardcover : $55.00 Buy	Harmattan, A Wind of Change Life and Letters from Northern Nigeria at the End of Empire Carolyn Johnston Radcliffe Press The end of empire, a romantic story and the social life and culture of an elite British colony -- these are the fascinating themes to emerge from this unique...

Trade Paperback : $29.95 Buy	South African Textual Cultures White, Black, Read All Over Andrew Van der Vlies Manchester University Press Nation and literature are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers...

Hardcover : $79.00 Buy	South African Literature Beyond the Cold War Monica Popescu Palgrave Macmillan Contemporary South African literature reflects a fascination with Russian and Eastern European stories of revolution and transformation as well as resistance...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation The Correspondence Edited by Shane Graham and John Walters Palgrave Macmillan In 1953 African-American poet Langston Hughes began corresponding with several South African writers variously affiliated with the legendary Drum magazine....

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia European Women's Narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-Present Patricia M. E. Lorcin Palgrave Macmillan This illuminating study of European women's narratives in colonial Algeria and Kenya argues that nostalgia was not a post-colonial phenomenon but was embedded...

Trade Paperback : $29.95 Buy	African Pasts Memory and History in African Literatures Tim Woods Manchester University Press "A people who do not preserve their memory are a people who have forfeited their history." So argues Wole Soyinka, in his book The Burden of Memory, the Muse...

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