Author: Heywood, Christopher Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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: Khoi...
Author: Kanneh, Kadiatu Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This fascinating and thoughtful analysis explores the meanings associated with "Africa" and "Blackness" throughout the century. Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documen...
Author: West, Elizabeth J. Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: African Spirituality in Black Women's Fiction traces the beginnings and transformations of African spirituality in African American women’s literature, and culminates with an examination of ...
Author: Lichtheim, Miriam Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: First published in 1973 - and followed by Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 - this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the l...
Author: Siddiq, Muhammad Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. It uses the example of the Egyptian novel to interroga...
Author: Cachia, Pierre Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, this book provides a balanced overview of Arab literature, from 'high' literature to popular folk literature, covering the classical and modern periods.
Author: Thoreau, Henry David Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced by American poet and literary critic Robert Pinsky--h...
Author: Thoreau, Henry David Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced by American poet and literary critic Robert Pinsky--h...
Author: Chua, John Publisher: Cliffs Notes Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The 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 featu...
Author: Zegeye, Abebe / Vambe, Maurice Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: European and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality. This book explores the status and critical relationship between...
Description: European and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality. This book explores the status and critical relationship between...
Description: After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a boo...
Author: Baugh, Edward Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott is one of the Caribbean's most famous writers. His unique voice in poetry, drama and criticism is shaped by his position at the crossroads between Caribbean, British and A...
Description: The book, an academic monograph, is a comprehensive study of the socio-linguistics of black South African literature in English from its beginnings, grounded in historical and political change as befi...
Author: Etuk Phd, Emma S. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In FROM DAVID WALKER TO BARACK OBAMA, Dr. Emma S. Etuk contends that well-known Ethiopianists have offered the inspiration for black freedom and must not be forgotten. Ethiopianists and Ethiopianism ...
Description: Western criticism has largely failed to acknowledge the distinctiveness of African literary aesthetics. This book revises traditional literary canons in examining the social, cultural and emotional sp...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demon...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demon...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demon...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demon...
Description: Intellectual 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 a...
Author: Nnolim, Charles E. Publisher: Malthouse Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The multitudinous nature of African literature has always been an issue but really not a problem, although its oral base has been used by expatriate critics to accuse African literature of thin plots,...
Author: Ashuntantang, Joyce B. Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a foundational text on the production and dissemination of Anglophone Cameroon literature. The Republic of Cameroon is a bilingual country with English and French as the official languages. As...
Author: Giovannucci, Perri Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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...
Author: N/A Publisher: Weaver Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Gender studies in Zimbabwe have tended to focus on women and their comparative disadvantages and under-privilege. Assuming a broader perspective is necessary at a time when society has grown used to a...
Description: The book locates questions of languages, genre, textuality and canonicity within a historical and theoretical framework that foregrounds the emergence of modern nationalism in Egypt. The ways in which...
Author: Selim, Samah Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The book locates questions of languages, genre, textuality and canonicity within a historical and theoretical framework that foregrounds the emergence of modern nationalism in Egypt. The ways in which...
Author: Ambanasom,, Shadrach A. Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The essays in this book comment practically on some aspects of all the genres of written literature that the Anglophone Cameroon creative writers have produced so far: the novel, drama, poetry, the sh...
Author: Adesokan, Akinwumi Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: What happens when social and political processes such as globalization shape cultural production? Drawing on a range of writers and filmmakers from Africa and elsewhere, Akin Adesokan explores the for...
Author: ten Kortenaar, Neil Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Examining images of literacy in African and West Indian novels, Neil ten Kortenaar looks at how postcolonial authors have thought about the act of writing itself. Writing arrived in many parts of Afri...
Author: Ngugi, wa Thiong'o, Publisher: Basic Civitas Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of Africa's greatest writers ("San Francisco Chronicle") makes an impassioned plea for the resurrection of African language--and African culture itself.
Author: Irele, F. Abiola Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Africa's strong tradition of storytelling has long been an expression of an oral narrative culture. African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka and J. M. Coetzee have adapted th...
Author: Savory,Elaine Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Since her death in 1979, Jean RhysÃs reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpretations from radically different critical...
Author: Ambanasom, Shadrach A. Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Initially considered something of a black sheep within the Anglophone Cameroon literary genres, the Anglophone novel has gradually grown to carve out a respectable niche for itself in the Anglophone C...
Author: Lifshey, Adam Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Magellan Fallacy argues that literature in Spanish from Asia and Africa, though virtually unknown, reimagines the supposed centers and peripheries of the modern world in fundamental ways. Through ...
Author: Coly, Ayo A. Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Gender, Migration, and the Claims of Postcolonial Nationhood in Francophone Africa examines three major migrant women writers from Francophone Africa: Ken Bugul, Calixthe Beyala, and Fatou Diome. Coly...
Author: Coly, Ayo A. Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Gender, Migration, and the Claims of Postcolonial Nationhood in Francophone Africa examines three major migrant women writers from Francophone Africa: Ken Bugul, Calixthe Beyala, and Fatou Diome. Coly...
Author: Marques, Irene Publisher: Purdue University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This exploration of class, feminism, and cultural identity (including issues of race, nation, colonialism, and economic imperialism) focuses on the work of four writers: the Mozambican Mia Couto, the ...
Author: Marques, Irene Publisher: Purdue University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This exploration of class, feminism, and cultural identity (including issues of race, nation, colonialism, and economic imperialism) focuses on the work of four writers: the Mozambican Mia Couto, the ...
Author: Brown, Nicholas Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, wit...
Author: Brown, Nicholas Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, wit...
Author: Brown, Nicholas Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, wit...
