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: 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: N/A Publisher: Columbia University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Short fiction was an immensely innovative art in the medieval Arab world, providing the perfect vehicle for transmitting dazzling images of life and experiences as early as pre-Islamic times. These wo...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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: 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...
Author: Cantalupo, Charles Publisher: Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry focuses on Eritrean written poetry from roughly the last three decades of the twentieth century. The poems appear in the anthology Who Needs a Story? Cont...
Author: Jeyifo, Biodun Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Biodun Jeyifo examines the connections between the innovative and influential writings of Wole Soyinka and his radical political activism. Jeyifo carries out detailed analyses of Soyinka's most ambiti...
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...
Author: Ogede, Ode Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
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...
