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Shakespeare in Swahililand: In Search of a Global Poet

By Edward Wilson-lee

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Hardcover:

9780374262075 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 13, 2016, cover price $26.00

In Search of the Afropolitan: Encounters, Conversations and Contemporary Diasporic African Literature

Product Description: In Search of the Afropolitan explores human encounters and moments that speak to the challenges of being a 21st century African of the world. Against the background of an engaging evaluation of the heated debate on Afropolitanism and what constitutes an Afropolitan, the authors turn to literature and its intrinsic capacity for unfolding the human figure of the African as inherently complex and multidimensional...read more

By Eva Rask Knudsen and Ulla Rahbek

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9781783483532 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, July 16, 2016, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: In Search of the Afropolitan explores human encounters and moments that speak to the challenges of being a 21st century African of the world.

Paperback:

9781783483549 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, July 16, 2016, cover price $39.95

The Comic Imagination in Modern African Literature and Cinema: A Poetics of Laughter

By Maik Nwosu

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Hardcover:

9781138942660 | Routledge, February 19, 2016, cover price $140.00

Postmodern Racial Dialectics: Philosophy Beyond the Pale

By Richard A. Jones

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Hardcover:

9780761866800 | Univ Pr of Amer, December 7, 2015, cover price $75.00

Landlines in African Literary Studies

Product Description: The notion of landlines intimates communication, and is a fairly safe bet as far as most of the writing offered here, critical and creative, is concerned. In a way, of course, the metaphor is a rearguard action, and blows up in one s face, as it were, suggesting as it does a system of telephonic communication that is no longer typical of Africa, which is at the forefront of cellphone culture...read more

By Gordon Collier (editor)

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9789004312692 | 1 lam edition (Rodopi Bv Editions, March 17, 2016), cover price $155.00 | About this edition: The notion of landlines intimates communication, and is a fairly safe bet as far as most of the writing offered here, critical and creative, is concerned.

Writers and Social Thought in Africa

Product Description: Social theory and social theorizing about Africa has largely ignored African literature. However, because writers are some of the continentâs finest social thinkers, they have produced â and continue to produce â works which constitute potential sources for the analysis of social thought, and for constructing social theory, in and beyond the continent...read more

By Wale Adebanwi (editor)

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9781138940574 | Routledge, November 2, 2015, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Social theory and social theorizing about Africa has largely ignored African literature.

Are You Ready?: Thin Lizzy: Album by Album

By Alan Byrne

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Hardcover:

9780521309936, titled "West African Poetry: A Critical History" | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1986, cover price $75.00 | also contains West African Poetry: A Critical History

Paperback:

9780992948085 | Scb Distributors, November 15, 2015, cover price $19.95

Creating Postcolonial Literature: African Writers and British Publishers

Product Description: Using 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...read more

By Caroline Davis

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Hardcover:

9780230369368 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 26, 2013, cover price $100.00

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9781137546180 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 5, 2016), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Using 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.

The Narrative Mediterranean: Beyond France and the Maghreb

By Claudia Esposito

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Hardcover:

9780739168219 | Lexington Books, November 29, 2013, cover price $80.00

Paperback:

9781498521253 | Lexington Books, August 25, 2015, cover price $39.99

Water Stories: Original !garib Narrations About the Water Snake /Waterstories - Oorspronklike !garib-vertellinge Van Die Waterslang

Product Description: "What do you know about the Water Snake?" -- When this question was presented to a group of South Africa's Upington women, it triggered a set of lyrical short stories in an attempt to capture the myth of the Water Snake. The women's responses to the question formed the basis for Water Stories, published with a set of original drawings by regional artist Betta Steyn...read more

By Mary Lange (editor)

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9781868887873 | Bilingual edition (Unisa Pr, May 31, 2015), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: "What do you know about the Water Snake?

Myth and History

By Eldred Durosimi Jones (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780841905771 | Africana Pub, July 1, 1980, cover price $39.50

Paperback:

9781847011220, titled "Myth & History" | Reissue edition (James Currey Ltd, May 21, 2015), cover price $34.95

9780841906525 | Holmes & Meier Pub, June 1, 1980, cover price $19.50

Insiders & Outsiders

Product Description: This volume, first published in 1984, studies the attraction of Africa for non-African writers and the widespread and differing outside influences on African writers. This relationship raises complex problems such as which language to write in, and the representation or misrepresentation of the continent...read more

By Marjorie Jones

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9780852555149 | James Currey Ltd, May 21, 2015, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This volume, first published in 1984, studies the attraction of Africa for non-African writers and the widespread and differing outside influences on African writers.

African Literature Today: A Journal of Explanatory Criticism

By Eldred Durosimi Jones (editor)

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9780852555064 | James Currey Ltd, May 21, 2015, cover price $34.95

Africa, America & the Caribbean

By Eldred Durosimi Jones (editor)

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9780852555095 | James Currey Ltd, May 21, 2015, cover price $34.95

New Writing, New Approaches: A Review, Incorporating Cumulative Index Volumes 1-12

By Eldred Durosimi Jones (editor) and Eustace Palmer (editor)

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9781847011237 | James Currey Ltd, May 21, 2015, cover price $34.95

Focus on Criticism

By Eldred Durosimi Jones (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780841901681 | Holmes & Meier Pub, June 1, 1975, cover price $19.50

Paperback:

9781847011206 | Reissue edition (James Currey Ltd, May 21, 2015), cover price $34.95

The Critical Imagination in African Literature: Essays in Honor of Michael J. C. Echeruo

By Obiwu (editor)

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Paperback:

9780815633877 | Syracuse Univ Pr, May 15, 2015, cover price $34.95

Literary Expressions of African Spirituality

Product Description: With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic black authors across varying locations in the Ameri-Atlantic diaspora, this collection reveals and examines their shared spiritual cosmology...read more

By Carol P. Marsh-Lockett (editor) and Elizabeth J. West (editor)

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9781498515498 | Reprint edition (Lexington Books, March 26, 2015), cover price $39.99 | also contains Literary Expressions of African Spirituality, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality | About this edition: With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art.

9780426204565, titled "The Also People" | London Bridge, January 1, 1996, cover price $5.95 | also contains Literary Expressions of African Spirituality, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality, The Also People

Literary Expressions of African Spirituality

By Carol P. Marsh-Lockett (editor) and Elizabeth J. West (editor)

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Literary Expressions of African Spirituality

By Carol P. Marsh-Lockett (editor) and Elizabeth J. West (editor)

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9780739181423 | Lexington Books, April 11, 2013, cover price $65.00

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Imagine Africa

By Francis Bebey, Paulina Chiziane, Mia Couto, Scholastique Mukasonga and Cedric Nunn

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9780914671183 | Archipelago Books, March 3, 2015, cover price $18.00

Conversations of Motherhood: South African Women's Writing Across Traditions

By Ksenia Robbe

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Paperback:

9781869142889 | Univ of Natal Pr, February 2, 2015, cover price $33.50

Martin Luther King Jr.

By Josh Gregory

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Hardcover:

9780387960128, titled "Carbonate Petroleum Reservoirs" | Springer Verlag, July 1, 1985, cover price $99.00 | also contains Carbonate Petroleum Reservoirs

9780391029224, titled "Africa and the Novel" | Humanities Pr, April 1, 1984, cover price $45.00 | also contains Africa and the Novel

Paperback:

9780531212080 | Childrens Pr, February 1, 2015, cover price $6.95

Library:

9780531211946 | Childrens Pr, February 1, 2015, cover price $29.00

Nadine Gordimer

Product Description: International in her appeal, Nadine Gordimer is an original and accomplished novelist whose works have found literary and popular recognition. In this critical study, first published in 1988 and the first by a woman, Judie Newman discusses all Gordimerâs novels, including A Sport of Nature...read more

By Judie Newman

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Hardcover:

9781138799363 | Reissue edition (Routledge, May 7, 2014), cover price $125.00

Paperback:

9781138799370 | Routledge, January 16, 2015, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: International in her appeal, Nadine Gordimer is an original and accomplished novelist whose works have found literary and popular recognition.

9780415006606 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, January 1, 1990, cover price $12.50

Ousmane Sembene and the Politics of Culture

Product Description: Undoubtedly one of Africa’s most influential first generation of writers and filmmakers, Ousmane Sembene's creative works of fiction as well as his films have been the subject of a considerable number of scholarly articles. The schemas of reading applied to Sembene's oeuvre (novels, short stories and films) have, in the main, focused either on his militant posture against colonialism, his disenchantment with African leadership, or his infatuation with documenting the past in an attempt to present a balanced and nuanced view of African history...read more

By Amadou T. Fofana (editor) and Lifongo Vetinde (editor)

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9780739192542 | Lexington Books, November 12, 2014, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Undoubtedly one of Africa’s most influential first generation of writers and filmmakers, Ousmane Sembene's creative works of fiction as well as his films have been the subject of a considerable number of scholarly articles.

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