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The Politics of Humiliation in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95In this volume, Nashef looks at J.M. Coetzee's concern with universal suffering and the inevitable humiliation of the human being as manifest in his novels. Though several theorists have referred to the theme of human degradation in Coetzee?s work, no detailed study has been made of this area of concern especially with respect to how pervasive it... more...
Arabic literature of Africa. Volume IV, Writings of Western Sudanic Africa
BRILL 2003; US$ 293.00This volume of Arabic literature of Africa deals with the scholarly and literary production of authors from Mali, Senegal, Guinea, Niger, and Ghana, from earliest times to 2002. more...
Intertextuality in Contemporary African Literature
Lexington Books 2011; US$ 64.99Intellectual exchange among African creative writers is the subject of this highly innovative and wide-ranging look at several forms of intertextuality on the continent. Focusing on the issue of the availability of old canonical texts of African literature as a creative resource, this study throws light on how African authors adapt, reinterpret, and... more...
The Epic Trickster in American Literatue
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms characterizing Africa. Challenging this binary and... more...
Creating Postcolonial Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between African writers and British publishers, and importance of the African market. It analyses the historical, political and economic conditions framing the emergence of postcolonial literature. more...
Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 134.00In this volume, Graham investigates the relation between land and nationalism in South African and Zimbabwean fiction from the 1960s to the present. This comparative study, the first of its kind, discusses a wide range of writing against a backdrop of regional decolonization, including novels by the prize-winning authors J.M Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer,... more...
Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period
Cambridge University Press 1983; US$ 36.00The History provides an invaluable source of reference of the intellectual, literary and religious heritage of the Arabic-speaking and Islamic world. more...
Modern Arabic Literature
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 87.00This volume provides an authoritative survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. more...
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 42.00A comprehensive study of all the works of Kenyan dramatist and novelist, Ngugu wa Thiong'o. more...
Postcolonial Literature and the Impact of Literacy
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 75.00Examines what the experience of writing, which came to Africa and the Caribbean with colonization, means to postcolonial writers. more...









