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  • Decolonising the Mind

    The Politics of Language in African Literature

    Ngugi describes this book as 'a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in teaching of literature.'East Africa [Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda]: EAEP ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, and particularly the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • In My Father's House

    Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

    The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Against Normalization

    Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa

    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Western-style parliamentary democracy, South Africans felt called upon to normalize their conceptions of economics, politics, and culture in line with these Western models. In Against Normalization, however, Anthony O’Brien examines recent South African literature and theoretical debate which take a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Complicities

    The Intellectual and Apartheid

    Series series Philosophy and Postcoloniality
    Complicities explores the complicated—even contradictory—position of the intellectual who takes a stand against political policies and ideologies. Mark Sanders argues that intellectuals cannot avoid some degree of complicity in what they oppose and that responsibility can only be achieved with their acknowledgment of this complicity. He examines the role of South African intellectuals by looking ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of African Literature

    Edited by Simon Gikandi ...
    The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering criticism and theory, African literature's development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers and their texts. While the greatest proportion of literary work in ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Clear Word and Third Sight

    Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing

    Series series New Americanists
    Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or “third sight,” is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated through a rich oral tradition. This consciousness has served diasporic communities by creating ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • African Literature, Animism and Politics

    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of the African discourse of consciousness and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism. It will be of great interest to scholars in many fields including literary and critical theory, philosophy, anthropology, politics and psychoanalysis. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Versions of Zimbabwe. New Approaches to Literature and Culture

    The book is the result of a collaboration of scholars from southern Africa and overseas, whose work emphasises hitherto overshadowed subjects of literature, exposing new and untried approaches to Zimbabwean writing. The contributors focus on pluralities, inclusiveness and the breaking of boundaries, and elucidate how literary texts are betraying multiple versions and opinions of Zimbabwe, arguing ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • National Character in South African English Children's Literature

    by Elwyn Jenkins ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    This is the first full-length study of South African English youth literature to cover the entire period of its publication, from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Jenkins' book focuses on what made the subsequent literature essentially South African and what aspects of the country and its society authors concentrated on. What gives this book particular strength is its ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945

    Series series The Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945
    The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 challenges the conventional belief that the English-language literary traditions of East Africa are restricted to the former British colonies of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Instead, these traditions stretch far into such neighboring countries as Somalia and Ethiopia.Simon Gikandi and Evan Mwangi assemble a truly inclusive list of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Albert Camus the Algerian

    Colonialism, Terrorism, Justice

    by David Carroll ...
    In these original readings of Albert Camus' novels, short stories, and political essays, David Carroll concentrates on Camus' conflicted relationship with his Algerian background and finds important critical insights into questions of justice, the effects of colonial oppression, and the deadly cycle of terrorism and counterterrorism that characterized the Algerian War and continues to surface in ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • History's Place

    Nostalgia and the City in French Algerian Literature

    by Seth Graebner ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    History's Place explores nostalgia as one of the defining aspects of the relationship between France and North Africa. Dr. Seth Graebner argues that France's most important colony developed a historical consciousness through literature, and that post-colonial writers revised it while retaining its dominant effect. The North African city became a privileged place in the relationship between ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature in English Since 1945

    by Adrian Roscoe ...
    Series series The Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945
    Columbia's guides to postwar African literature paint a unique portrait of the continent's rich and diverse literary traditions. This volume examines the rapid rise and growth of modern literature in the three postcolonial nations of Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia. It tracks the multiple political and economic pressures that have shaped Central African writing since the end of World War II and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Writing from the Hearth

    Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean

    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    If space is important in the realm of imagination and a key theme in feminist theory, cross-cultural studies of social maps reveal that men and women's spatial experiences differ; women rarely control physical or social space directly. Positing the thesis that women's writing of Francophone Africa and the Caribbean offers important perspectives on the relationship of gender to space,Writing from ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

    A Routledge Study Guide

    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is both a tragic and moving story of an individual set in the wider context of the coming of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement of cross-cultural encounters.This guide to Chinua Achebe’s compelling novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Things ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Representing Africa in Children's Literature

    Old and New Ways of Seeing

    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Representing Africa in Children’s Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and Africans in books published between 1960 and 2005. The book focuses on contemporary children’s and young adult literature set in Africa, examining issues regarding colonialism, the politics of representation, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures

    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures analyzes novels and films that demonstrate how marriage affects Francophone African and Caribbean women in their respective societies. It argues that marriage serves as a catalyst for intense identity formation because it functions as a narrative intersection for a number of overlapping themes on gender and the body, class and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Transnationalism in Southern African Literature

    Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture

    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone literature of Angola and Mozambique.Stefan Helgesson suggests that the prevalence of ‘colonial’ languages such as English and Portuguese in ‘anticolonial’ or ‘postcolonial’ African Literature is primarily an effect of the print network. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD $48.99 USD

  • Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts

    Series series Routledge Research in Travel Writing
    This study examines and explains how British explorers visualized the African interior in the latter part of the nineteenth century, providing the first sustained analysis of the process by which this visual material was transformed into the illustrations in popular travel books. At that time, central Africa was, effectively, a blank canvas for Europeans, unknown and devoid of visual ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa

    A Study of Contemporary Fiction

    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    In the spirit of their last collaboration, Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995, Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann once again come together to expose the neo-imperialist overtones of contemporary children's fiction about Africa. Examining the portrayal of African social customs, religious philosophies, and political structures in fiction for young people, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Utopian Generations

    The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature

    Series Book 11 - Translation/Transnation
    Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naïve vis-à-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-à-vis postcolonial ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Something Torn and New

    An African Renaissance

    Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. In Something Torn and New, Ngugi explores Africa's historical, economic, and cultural fragmentation by slavery, colonialism, and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Gods and Soldiers

    The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing

    Edited by Rob Spillman ...
    A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literatureComing at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality and urgency of African writing today. With stories from northern Arabic-speaking to southern Zulu-speaking writers, this collection conveys thirty different ways of approaching what it means ... Read more

    $4.99 USD