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Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender
By: Stratton, Florence
Published by: Routledge
The first extensive account of African literature from a feminist perspective, looking at the effect of gender and patriarchy on African literture and the contributions of African women writers. Also includes new readings of canonical male writers.
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Price: $43.95
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Encyclopedia of African Literature
By: Gikandi, Simon
Published by: Routledge
The 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.
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Price: $275.00
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Gods and Soldiers
By: Spillman, Rob
Published by: The Penguin Group (USA)
A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature. Coming 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 to be African. Whether about life in the new urban melting pots of Cape Town and Luanda, or amid the battlefield chaos of Zimbabwe and Somalia, or set in the imaginary surreal landscapes born out of the oral storytelling tradition, these stories represent a striking cross section of extraordinary writing. Including works by J. M. Coetzee, Chimamanda Adichie, Nuruddin Farah, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Chinua Achebe, and edited by Rob Spillman of Tin House magazine, Gods and Soldiers features many pieces never before published, making it a vibrant and essential glimpse of Africa as it enters the twenty-first century.
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Price: $16.00
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A History of South African Literature
By: Heywood, Christopher
Published by: Cambridge University Press
This 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.
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Price: $64.00
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Keats, Hermeticism, and the Secret Societies
By: Wunder, Jennifer N.
Published by: Ashgate
Wunder recovers the common knowledge about secret societies like the Rosicrucians and Freemasons during the Romantic period and offers readers a first look at the role they played in the writings of Romantic authors in general and Keats in particular. As she details the reading public's exposure to and fascination with articles, pamphlets, and books about the societies, Wunder also traces their influence on Keats's poetry and letters and offers a new perspective on Keats scholarship.
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Price: $99.95
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Literature and Development in North Africa
By: Giovannucci, Perri
Published by: Routledge
A critique of modern development may be traced in the postcolonial and anti-colonial literature about North Africa. Works by Fanon, Camus, Djebar, Mahfouz, El Saadawi, Said, and others, offer a window upon contemporary modernization and related issues of identity, independence, and social justice.
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Nation-Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa
By: Thomas, Dominic
Published by: Indiana University Press
What characterizes the relationship between literature and the state? Should literature serve the needs of the state by constructing national consciousness, espousing state propaganda, and molding good citizens. Or should it be dedicated to a different kind of creative social endeavor? In this important book about literature and the politics of nation-building, Dominic Thomas assesses the contributions of Francophone African writers whose works have played a key role in the recent transition to democracy in the Congo. Exploring the works of Sony Labou Tansi, Henri Lopes, and Emmananuel Dongala, among others, Thomas highlights writers intimately involved with government and politics.
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Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance
By: Olaniyan, Tejumola
Published by: Oxford University Press (US)
This original work redefines and broadens our understanding of the drama of the English-speaking African diaspora. Looking closely at the work of Amiri Baraka, Nobel prize-winners Wole Soyinka and Derek Walcott, and Ntozake Shange, the author contends that the refashioning of the collective cultural self in black drama originates from the complex intersection of three discourses: Eurocentric, Afrocentric, and Post-Afrocentric. From blackface minstrelsy to the Trinidad Carnival, from the Black Aesthetic to the South African Black Consciousness theatres and the scholarly debate on the (non)existence of African drama, Olaniyan cogently maps the terrains of a cultural struggle and underscores a peculiar situation in which the inferiorization of black performance forms is most often a shorthand for subordinating black culture and corporeality. Drawing on insights from contemporary theory and cultural studies, and offering detailed readings of the above writers, Olaniyan shows how they occupy the interface between the Afrocentric and a liberating Post-Afrocentric space where black theatrical-cultural difference could be envisioned as a site of multiple articulations: race, class, gender, genre, and language.
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Student Encyclopedia of African Literature
By: Killam, Douglas; Kerfoot, Alicia L.
Published by: Greenwood Ebooks
Some 600 alphabetically arranged entries chronicle the growing field of African literature in a work written expressly for students.
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Price: $93.50
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