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Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Wiley 2001; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on Things Fall Apart, you explore the ground-breaking... more...
Gilgamesh
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the earlier, almost scientific renderings. The principal... more...
Before The Knife
Transworld 2010; US$ 9.34Carolyn Slaughter is the author of ten critically acclaimed novels, but for the last twelve years she has been completely silent. She had become conscious that there was something hidden in her past that had always haunted her fiction but which she had never fully faced. This powerful memoir is the result of confronting the truth about her traumatic... more...
V. S. Naipaul
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 34.00A critical overview of V. S. Naipaul's major fictional and non-fictional publications to date. more...
Aimé Césaire
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 26.00A study of Antiguan writer Aimé Césaire, which links his political career to recurrent themes in his writing. more...
J. M. Coetzee
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 28.00Examines Coetzee's distinctive contribution to twentieth-century fiction, and to the definition of postmodernism and postcolonialism. more...
Postcolonial Travel Writing
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of a vibrant and highly popular but also volatile genre that has seen many changes in recent years. more...
The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials
Boydell & Brewer 2009; US$ 29.95How was an autocratic emperor replaced by a totalitarian dictator? An unexpected popular upsurge in February 1974 made the ancien regime of Emperor Haile Selassie buckle. The Derg, a group of army officers led by an obscure and ruthless major Mengistu Hai more...
Living Terraces in Ethiopia
Boydell & Brewer 2009; US$ 80.00Terraced agricultural landscapes in Africa are remarkable feats of human engineering and social organization, enabling the conservation of soil and water and the cultivation of food. Indigenous terraced landscapes are all the more valuable because they ha more...
Globalizing the Postcolony
Lexington Books 2010; US$ 79.99Globalizing the Postcolony: Contesting Discourses of Gender and Development in Francophone Africa is a study of development in the former French colonies of West Africa. It takes as its starting point the international community's reporting on human and social development and gender in the developing areas, which began systematically in 1990 and which... more...









