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  • Summary and Analysis of Americanah

    Based on the Book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    von Worth Books …
    Serien series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Americanah tells you what you need to know before or after you read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary of Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie includes:Chapter-by-chapter overview... … Lesen Sie mehr

    4,99 €

  • Something Torn and New

    An African Renaissance

    von Ngugi wa Thiong'o …
    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 … Lesen Sie mehr

    12,99 €

  • Yet Being Someone Other

    von Sir Laurens Van Der Post …
    Yet Being Someone Other is the most revealing book that Laurens van der Post wrote about his extraordinary and eventful life, and the most far-reaching; it is a distillation of the experiences that have moved him at the deepest level of the imagination and made him the exceptional person and writer he was. … Lesen Sie mehr

    8,49 €

  • Race, Nation, Translation

    South African Essays, 1990-2013

    von Zoë Wicomb …
    The first collection of nonfiction critical writings by one of the leading literary figures of post-apartheid South AfricaThe most significant nonfiction writings of Zoë Wicomb, one of South Africa’s leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first time in a single volume. This compilation features critical essays on the works of such prominent South African writers as Bessie … Lesen Sie mehr

    26,53 €

  • The Green Machine

    von Daisy M. Jenkins …
    Gene Ramone Brook -- Chaplain Brookie -- ministers to black inmates in the Green Machine, the nickname for the privatized, for-profit prison that relies on a steady stream of black and brown inmates to fill the coffers of its big corporate contractors. It's a place where anguish quickly replaces hope.Chaplain Brookie's ministry aims to tackle the issues the inmates face and prepare them for life … Lesen Sie mehr

    8,88 €

  • Kalyani Magazine Issue #2

    Sound

    von Shubha Bala, Avotcja …
    Serien Buch 2 - Kalyani Magazine
    Kalyani Magazine, Issue #2: Spring 2013. "Sound"Note: The e-version does not have as precise formatting for the poetry as the print or pdf versionsKalyani Magazine is a semi-annual literary publication providing a voice to those who are often voiceless. We encourage women of color to express themselves through diverse writing and artistic styles the magazine as the pillar of a broader, supportive … Lesen Sie mehr

    3,11 €

  • Aria Fathers

    A Battle Between Legacy and Destiny

    von John Kola Olowokunlepe …
    Aria Fathers isn’t just fiction — it’s a reflection of our world, a stirring reminder of what happens when the youth wake up and demand change. It dives deep into:The corruption of long-serving politiciansThe struggle of grassroots activismThe pain of choosing principle over profitThe resilience of a community ready for revolutionThe power of friendship and sacrificeAs children, Ade and Akin often … Lesen Sie mehr

    5,69 €

  • The Space of the Transnational

    Feminisms and Ummah in African and Southeast Asian Writing

    von Shirin E. Edwin …
    Serien series SUNY series, Genders in the Global South
    Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah**, or community, in Muslim women's writing.**This book examines Muslim women's creative strategies of deploying religious concepts such as ummah, or community, to solve problems of domestic and communal violence, polygamous abuse, sterility, and heteronormativity. By closely reading and examining examples of ummah … Lesen Sie mehr

    30,70 €

  • J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism

    von K. Hallemeier …
    Serien series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Drawing on postcolonial and gender studies, as well as affect theory, the book interrogates cosmopolitan philosophies. Through analysis of J.M. Coetzee's later fiction, Hallemeier invites the re-imagining of cosmopolitanism, particularly as it is performed through the reading of literature. … Lesen Sie mehr

    53,49 €

  • Reconstruction de la mémoire pour l’afroprospection

    von Anouchka Stevellia Moussavou Nyama …
    Comment les Africains peuvent-ils réussir à transcender le drame de la rencontre avec l’Autre ? Quel travail les ex-colonisé.e.s doivent-ils/elles mener sur leur passé pour ne pas rester figé.e.s dans le souvenir de la chute ?Ce livre est une contribution au débat sur la mémoire historique entre ex-colonisé.e.s, mais aussi entre ces derniers et l’ancienne puissance coloniale française. À partir d … Lesen Sie mehr

    45,25 €

  • Women and Leadership in Igboland: Omoku, Ime Chi and Omugwo Institutions

    von T.Akachi Ezeigbo …
    In this monograph, the author examines women’s leadership roles in three spheres of influence under women’s control: Omoku, Ime Chi and Omugwo institutions and argues that there were a variety of leadership opportunities open to Igbo women in the past – some of them still exist today and will continue to exist in the years to come – through which they exerted and can still exert their influence to … Lesen Sie mehr

    8,29 €

  • African Migration Narratives

    Politics, Race, and Space

    Bearbeitet von Cajetan Iheka, Professor Jack Taylor …
    This essay collection examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media. Inspired by the proliferation of texts focused on this theme and the ongoing migration crises, essays in the volume probe the ways in which African cultural productions shape and are shaped by the migration debates, the contributions these productions make to an understanding of … Lesen Sie mehr

    19,25 €

  • The Anatomy of Blackness

    Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment

    von Andrew S. Curran …
    2012 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineThis volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues, natural histories, works of anatomy, pro- and anti-slavery tracts, philosophical treatises, and … Lesen Sie mehr

    28,13 €

  • African Women Writing Diaspora

    Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century

    von Rose A. Sackeyfio, Tomi Adeaga, Nancy Henaku, Amanda Lagji, Elijah Adeoluwa Olusegun, Cheryl Toman …
    African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century examines contemporary fiction by African women authors to resonate diaspora perspectives on what it means to be African within transnational spaces. Through a critical lens, the collection interrogates the ways in which women construct new ways of telling the African story in the global age of social, economic, … Lesen Sie mehr

    32,52 €

  • 1960

    When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern

    von Al Filreis …
    In 1960, when World War II might seem to have been receding into history, a number of artists and writers instead turned back to it. They chose to confront the unprecedented horror and mass killing of the war, searching for new creative and political possibilities after the conservatism of the 1950s in the long shadow of genocide.Al Filreis recasts 1960 as a turning point to offer a groundbreaking … Lesen Sie mehr

    28,99 €

  • Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo

    von Bosede Funke Afolayan, Christopher Anyokwu, Chikaodiri Augustus, Jane Bryce, Psalms Emeka Chinaka, Louisa UchumEgbunike, Obiageli Okolocha, Patrick Oloko, Omolola A. Ladele, Chioma Opara, Iniobong I. Uko, Irene Agunloye, Helen O. Chukwuma …
    Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is a collection of 15 critical essays that highlights the literary contributions of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo as one of Nigeria’s leading female writers. The book includes a literary biography, professional profile, and an interview with professor Adimora-Ezeigbo that offers valuable insight into her life and works. Contributing scholars provide … Lesen Sie mehr

    85,38 €

  • Chris Abani

    von Annalisa Oboe, Elisa Bordin …
    Serien series Contemporary World Writers
    This is the first full-length book on the work of ‘global Igbo’ writer Chris Abani. The volume dedicates a chapter to each of Abani’s fiction books, the two novellas Becoming Abigail (2006) and Song for Night (2007), the three novels GraceLand (2004), The Virgin of Flames (2007), and The Secret History of Las Vegas (2014), which are read against the grain of Abani’s most important essays and … Lesen Sie mehr

    94,47 €

  • Kuma Malinke Historiography

    Sundiata Keita to Almamy Samori Toure

    von Nubia Kai …
    Founded in the early thirteenth century, the Mali Empire stretched from the Atlantic coast of West Africa across the savannah lands to Timbuktu and Gao. Comprised of multiple ethnics groups—the Soninke, the Mandenka, Fula, Sosso, Tuareg, Sonrai, Almoravids—Mali was politically dominated by the Mandenka people who developed a comprehensive, eloquent, and ennobling historical tradition that has … Lesen Sie mehr

    106,45 €

  • Receptions of the Classics in the African Diaspora of the Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds

    Atlantis Otherwise

    von Elisa Rizo, Madeleine M. Henry, Cesar Augusto Baldi, Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves, Guilherme Gontijo Flores, Andrea Kouklanakis, John T. Maddox IV …
    Serien series Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
    Atlantis Otherwise expands the study of the African diaspora by focusing on postcolonial literary expressions from Latin America and Africa. The book studies the presence of classical references in texts written by writers (black and non-black) who are committed to the articulation of the fragmented history of the African experience from the Middle Passage to the present outside of Euro-centric … Lesen Sie mehr

    71,25 €

  • Between Two Worlds

    Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa

    von Celucien L. Joseph, Jean Eddy Saint Paul, Glodel Mezilas, Patrick Delices, Moussa Traoré, Esther I. Rodríguez-Miranda, Tammie Jenkins, William Alexander0, Myriam Mompoint1, Paul C. Mocombe2 …
    Serien series Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
    Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twenty-first century’s culture of political correctness, the continuing challenge of race and racism, and imperial hegemony in the modern world. Price-Mars’s thought is also significant for the renewed … Lesen Sie mehr

    92,44 €

  • French Orientalist Literature in Algeria, 1845–1882

    Colonial Hauntings

    von Sage Goellner …
    Serien series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    This book applies the growing theoretical field of hauntology to a body of literature which has previously been examined through the lenses of Orientalism and exoticism. Through a chronological study and close readings of the writings of Théophile Gautier, Eugène Fromentin, Gustave Flaubert, and Pierre Loti, the project identifies haunting echoes within the texts which demonstrate an ambivalence … Lesen Sie mehr

    34,44 €

  • A Formação das Literaturas Africanas em Português

    von Alamir Correa …
    Quando há várias nações, antigamente metrópole e colônias, usando a mesma língua, outros fatores devem ser usados para definir quais obras pertencem a uma nação. Além disso, é importante caracterizar o momento, durante o período de colonização, se houver, em que um determinado autor declara sua identidade como um distinto dos demais escritores da Metrópole, refletindo assim uma visão de mundo … Lesen Sie mehr

    8,49 €

  • Postcolonial Imaginations and Moral Representations in African Literature and Culture

    von Chielozona Eze …
    The postcolonial African culture, as it is discoursed in the academia, is largely influenced by Africa’s response to colonialism. To the degree that it is a response, it is to considerably reactive, and lacks forceful moral incentives for social critical consciousness and nation-building. Quite on the contrary, it allows especially African political leaders to luxuriate in the delusions of moral … Lesen Sie mehr

    81,42 €

  • Writing from the Hearth

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

    von Mildred Mortimer …
    Serien 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 … Lesen Sie mehr

    42,25 €