Cultural Literature
OF WAR AND WOMEN, OPPRESSION AND OPTIMISM: NEW ESSAYS ON THE AFRICAN NOVEL
A supplement to Palmer's earlier works on the African novel, An Introduction to the African Novel and The Growth of the African Novel. Here, Palmer undertakes a detailed critical assessment of key novels he feels are typical of the main...
$28.12
BEYOND THE CANEBRAKES: CARIBBEAN WOMEN WRITERS IN CANADA (PB)
Beyond the Canebrakes: West Indian Women Writers in Canada is a text of fifteen essays and two interviews that examine the work of West Indian Women Writers living in Canada. The essays examine the work of literary artists Claire Harris,...
$34.95
GOLDEN APPLE: CHANGING THE STRUCTURE OF CIVILIZATION
In praise of An African Answer: The Key to Global Productivity, by Edgar J. Ridley - "It is a great book." W. Edwards Deming"Symptomatic thinking may well be the answer to the world's problems." - Eric Watkins, African Business magazine."With The Golden Apple: Changing the...
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AFRICA, BRAZIL AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF TRANS ATLANTIC BLACK IDENTITIES
The flow of ideas about race, anti-racism and black or African identity across the Atlantic is the focus of this volume of essays drawn from a very special international South-South workshop held on the island of Gorée, Senegal, in December...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON AKINWUMI ISOLA
This book provides debates and representations of society to be found in the works of Akínwùmi Ìs ò lá, one of the leading contemporary writers in African-language. His numerous creative works have received national and international attention, and many of...
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CONFIGURING THE AFRICAN WORLD: ESSAYS ON CONTINENTAL AND DIASPORIC LITERATURES AND CULTURES
Configuring the African World: Essays on Continental and Diasporic Literatures and Cultures Product details Publisher : Africa World Press (September 5, 2007) Language : English Paperback : 312 pages ISBN-10 : 1592214487 ISBN-13 : 978-1592214488 Item Weight : 1.05 pounds Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 9...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON AMINATA SOW FALL: THE REAL AND THE IMAGINARY IN HER NOVELS
For Aminata Sow Fall, writing is subversive because it poses questions that need answers. So, for her, the writer s role is not to moralize, but rather to raise questions and the readers are to act on the questions raised....
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AFRO-BRAZILIAN MIND (THE): Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Criticism
This multilingual reader brings together literary and cultural critics from Africa, Europe, and the Americas to validate and re-evaluate the legitimacy of Afro-Brazilian studies and culture as a field of academic inquiry worthy of canonical inclusion. The thirty two multifaceted...
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GENDER AND IDENTITY IN THE WORKS OSONYE TESS ONWUEME
Gender & Identity
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Publisher : Africa World Pr (July 30, 2007)
Language : English
Paperback : 318 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592212743
ISBN-13 : 978-1592212743
Item Weight : 15.6 ounces
Dimensions : 0.98 x 5.39 x 8.43 inches
$24.95
LIVING ON A HORIZON: THE WRITINGS OF BESSIE HEAD (COMING SOON)
Bessie Head s writing illustrates a rich fusion of styles, subjects and philosophical and literary influences. Living on a Horizon explores this range by drawing both on postcolonial and feminist theories and on the variety of cultural references that Head...
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GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN AFRICAN LITERATURE AND FILM
This ground-breaking volume provides scholars with a sustained exploration of human sexuality as an integral part of gender studies. The book s theoretical, interpretative, and analytical approaches document the state of present knowledge on homoeroticism in African literature and film....
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AFRICAN LITERATURE AT THE MILLENIUM #13
This selection of essays fairly represents the geographic and thematic range of presentations at the millennial conference of the African Literature Association (ALA) in Lawrence, Kansas, which explored enduring themes and new directions in African and African Diaspora literatures. The...
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LOKOTOWN AND OTHER STORIES (COMING SOON)
When People of the City was first published in 1954, it was immediately acclaimed as the first major novel in English by a West African to be widely read throughout the English-speaking world. It tells of the story of a...
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CHANGING CURRENTS: TRANSNATIONAL CARIBBEAN LITERARY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
Changing Currents: Transnational Caribbean Literary and Cultural Criticism is a groundbreaking text of fifteen essays that present new modes of access for, as well as alternative meanings to, a number of well-known and not so well-known literary works, authors, and...
$42.89
FROM A RED ZONE: Critical Perspectives on Race, Politics and Culture
This collection of essays explores several sites of racialized power, from scholarly works embedded in academic disciplines to “ethnic” museums and several race-based exclusionary political practices. The point of view is comparative--that of a woman of color feminist--and that of...
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NGUGI WA THIONG'O SPEAKS: INTERVIEWS WITH THE KENYAN WRITER
Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one of Africa's most famous writers. His novels, plays, essays and speeches have earned him an international reputation as an articulate spokesman not just for Africa but for the entire Third World as well. His writings,...
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INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN ORAL LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE
This new book puts together in a single cover, two earlier volumes by the authors, now revised to meet the challenges of a twenty-first century scholarship in African performance and cultural studies. Topics covered range from sources of African oral...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON MARYSE CONDE: A WRITE OF HER OWN
Emerging Perspectives On Maryse Conde: A Writer Of Her Own Product details Publisher : Africa World Pr; 0 edition (September 1, 2005) Language : English Paperback : 322 pages ISBN-10 : 1592212239 ISBN-13 : 978-1592212231 Item Weight : 1.16 pounds Dimensions : 6 x 0.75 x 8.75...
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AFRICAN THEATRE: Soyinka (COMING SOON)
A special issue devoted to early revue sketches by Wole Soyinka, which have never been published outside Nigeria before. Soyinka’s most recent plays, “The Beatification of Area Boy” and “King Baabu” draw strongly on characters and incidents first created in...
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EFUNSETAN ANIWURA: IYALODE IBADAN AND TINUUBU, IYALODE EGBA: THE YORUBA HISTORICAL DRAMAS OF AKINWUMI ISOLA
Isola, Akinwumi, Smith, Pamela J. Olubunmi
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Publisher : Africa World Pr; 0 edition (April 1, 2005)
Language : English
Paperback : 264 pages
ISBN-10 : 159221228X
ISBN-13 : 978-1592212286
Item Weight : 9.6 ounces
Dimensions : 5.25 x 0.75 x 8 inches
$32.08