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Encyclopedia of African Literatureby Simon Gikandi
Routledge 2002; US$ 62.95The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book contains over 600 entries that cover criticism and theory, its development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers. more...
Voice and Powerby B. W Andrzejewski; R J Hayward; M Lewis
Routledge 1996; US$ 98.00This text is devoted to studies of the languages and cultures of the Cushitic-speaking peoples of the Horn of Africa. It is concerned with linguistics in a technical sense, and analyzes the oral literature of the people of the area. more...
Politics Of (m)otheringby Obioma Nnaemeka
Routledge 1996; US$ 43.95This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal. more...
Sunjataby Gordon Innes
Taylor & Francis 1975; US$ 41.95The three texts in this book are by three of The Gambia?s leading bards, Bamba Suso, Banna Kanute and Dembo Kanute. A brief biographical note on each of these three bards will be found before the text which each has provided. The texts by Bamba Suso and Banna Kanute are included here as illustrative of the differences of both style and content which can occur between two performances of the ?same? epic. Dembo Kanute?s text is an example of a narration which draws upon the Sunjata epic, but where the focus of interest is not Sunjata himself, but one of his generals. more...
The Syntax of Chichewaby Sam Mchombo
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 103.00This clearly organised and accessible new book provides a comprehensive description of the major syntactic structures of Chichewa. Assuming no prior knowledge of current theory, it covers topics such as relative clause and question formation, interactions between tone and syntactic structure, and aspects of clause structure such as complementation. more...
A History of South African Literatureby Christopher Heywood
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 34.00This book is a critical study of its subject, from colonial and pre-colonial times to the present. Christopher Heywood discusses selected poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions. In Christopher Heywood's study, South African literature emerges as among the great literatures of the modern world. more...
Matsuo Bashô's Poetic Spacesby Eleanor Kerkham
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 85.00Haikai is an art that parodies and often subverts its linguistic, generic, and personal predecessors. This collection of essays explores certain neglected aspects of this haikaimaster's literary and philosophical contributions. more...
Black Mindby O.R. Dathorne
University of Minnesota Press 1974; US$ 90.00The comprehensive account of the development of African literature from its beginnings in oral tradition to its contemporary expression in the writings of Africans in various African and European languages provides insight, both broad and deep, into the B more...









