Cultural Literature
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...
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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
Product details
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
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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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