Cultural Literature
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURES OF AFRICA (COMING SOON)
Alain Ricard presents African languages and literatures in a new perspective focusing on the dialogue between them. An historical overview provides new insights into literatures of Africa, both oral and written. This book examines the dialogue between literatures written in...
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INTRODUCTION TO THE AFRICAN PROSE NARRATIVE
This collection of essays aims at introducing students of African literature to the heritage of the African prose narrative starting from its oral base and covering its linguistic and cultural diversity. The book brings together essays on both the classics...
$25.31
EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON CHINUA ACHEBE, VOL. II
Chinua Achebe's influence on contemporary African Literature is as much evident in his art of the novel, as his articulation of African poetics and aesthetics in his extra fictional pronouncements. He is as much the father of the modern African...
$36.00
Africana Womanist Literary Theory
By placing Africana womanism, an evolutionary Africana paradigm, within a literary context, this book expands the layered meanings of this family-centered, race-based theory and applies them to the works and ideas of renowned international literary figures such as Toni Morrison,...
$19.95
MUSIC, WRITING AND CULTURAL UNITY IN THE CARIBBEAN
Music, Writing, and Cultural Unity in the Caribbean brings together performers, writers, critics, and musicologists from the Dutch-, English-, French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean, as well as Britain and the United States. The collection explores the history of the circulation of...
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HOPE IN THE MIDST OF DESPAIR: A NOVELIST'S CURES FOR AFRICA
This book examines Ayi Kwei Armahs five novels: The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Fragments (1969), Two Thousand Seasons (1973), The Healers (1973), and Osiris Rising (1995).Drawing on a thorough discussion of the five novels, the book probes...
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CALL ME BY MY RIGHTFUL NAME (PB)
A young African American (Otis Hampton) falls into periodic spasms and chants a text nobody understands. His troubled family seeks help. The text, recorded by a psychiatrist and deciphered by linguists, is found to be a corrupted family chant from...
$19.95
AHMADU FULANI: An African Poetry (COMING SOON)
Ahmadu Fulani: An African Poetry is a poetry volume in English, Yoruba and Hausa, celebrating the memory of the poets father and speaking to the lessons the poet learned from his father as a child. The volume addresses issues of...
$14.95
EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON MARIAMA BA
Like good literature, Bâ's writings constitute social texts that renew themselves with each younger generation, each different society, and each new awareness because they are constantly interrogated, subverted, and primed with new meanings. Like the proverbial phoenix, therefore, Mariama Bâ...
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON CHINUA ACHEBE, VOL. I
Chinua Achebe, a literary icon of the 20th century is widely regarded as Africas best novelist to date, and one of the worlds greatest. His narrative style and techniques have given rise to what has been characterized as the African...
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DECOLONIZING THE ACADEMY: AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES
the twenty-first century, this has become even clearer now that the academy is one of the primary sites for the production and re-production of ideas that serve the interests of colonizing powers. Operating at the macro level in terms of...
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BETWEEN FAITH AND HISTORY (COMING SOON)
The road to John Agyekum Kufuors presidency was tortuous and reflects Ghanas political history, which since Kwame Nkrumah led to independence in 1957 and had been dominated by military interventions and dictatorships. Groomed for this job by some of Ghanas...
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AFRICAN DIASPORA IN THE INDIAN OCEAN
Although much has been written about the African Diaspora in the Atlantic Ocean, the Diaspora in the Indian Ocean is virtually unrecognized. Concerned with Africans, who lived south of the Sahara and were dispersed by free will or forcefully to...
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FIGURES IN A DANCE: THE THEATER OF W.B. YEATS AND WOLE SOYINKA
The correlation between the sensibility and the environment of an artist has been pivotal to critical debate for centuries and will continue to be so as long as the creative impulse and its expression remains an inexorable fact of life....
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BLUES IN BLACK AND WHITE
The ever-engaging work of the controversial Afro-German activist/writer, May Ayim, covers a fascinating range of themes: biography, politics, love as well as the absurdities of everyday life. Her unique ability to passionately transform diverse subject matters into poetic language is...
$21.95
LEISURE IN URBAN AFRICA
In this fascinating study, an interdisciplinary team of scholars reflect on the complex conceptions, creation, and consumption of leisure in African cities from the nineteenth century to the present. Collectively, they bring together often unconnected modes of analysis, research, and...
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AFROCENTRIC THOUGHT AND PRAXIS: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY (PB) (COMING SOON)
This book aims to show that the intellectual and activist/transformationist tradition of African people all over the world is a composite one, which transcends geographical, religious, language, and other apparent differences. Furthermore, this book explains that this composite African intellectual...
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AFROCENTRIC THOUGHT AND PRAXIS: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Gray, Cecil Conteen
Product details
Publisher : Africa World Pr (December 1, 2002)
Language : English
Paperback : 204 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865438250
ISBN-13 : 978-0865438255
Item Weight : 15.2 ounces
Dimensions : 4.75 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
$35.97
CONFRONTING AIDS EPIDEMIC (CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON HIV/AIDS EDUCATION)
This is an anthology of articles that focus on various aspects of the dreaded AIDS disease. The articles is written by scholars of various relevant disciplines, who seek to create greater public awareness and understanding of AIDS and thereby contribute...
$24.79
LAST CAMEL (THE): Stories About Somalia (AVAILABLE IN HB ONLY)
The Last Camel: True Stories About Somalia
Product details
Publisher : Red Sea Pr (May 1, 1997)
Language : English
Hardcover : 230 pages
ISBN-10 : 156902040X
ISBN-13 : 978-1569020401
Item Weight : 15.2 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches
$59.95