Category - Literary Criticism
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African Battle Traditions of Insult: Verbal Arts, Song-Poetry, and Performance
HardcoverOriginal price $159.99 - Original price $159.99Original price $159.99$174.99$174.99 - $174.99Current price $174.99| /This book explores the "battles" of words, songs, poetry, and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora. These are usually highly competitive,...
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Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In Continuous Pasts, author Sakiru Adebayo claims that the post-conflict fiction of memory in Africa depicts the intricate ways in which the past i...
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Distant Train
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /While the fading autumn sun sped toward the horizon, the young boys headed home--they were not used to trying to see at night without the moon's gl...
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Gender Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892-2008
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /From the end of the nineteenth century and into the twenty-first, Arabic novels and Egyptian fiction have experienced a rebirth as the literary lan...
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Imoinda's Shade: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808
PaperbackOriginal price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /As the eighteenth century is entirely bereft of narratives written by African women, one might assume that these women had little to no impact on B...
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Olive Schreiner
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Olive Schreiner, who was born in 1855 in South Africa, has become a central literary figure for thinking about the complex debates surrounding ge...
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Chinua Achebe
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his...
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Monarch of the Square: An Anthology of Muhammad Zafzaf's Short Stories
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /A master of the short story form, Muhammad Zafzaf is one of Morocco's greatest narrative writers. This anthology, the first collection of his work ...
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Samuel Selvon
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The first full-length study of Selvon that covers all aspects of his fictional world - poems, radio dramas, short fiction, and novels. It shows t...
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The Mudimbe Reader
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his efforts to bridge Western and African modes of...
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The Critical Imagination in African Literature: Essays in Honor of Michael J. C. Echeruo
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In African studies, the Echeruoan ideal is understood as an intervention or intellectual engagement characterized by a broadness of vision as well ...
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Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Undertaking a sustained interpretation of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's novels and short stories, this study focuses primarily on the ways in whi...
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The Story of the Banned Book: Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the Alley
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /An award-winning account of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's most controversial novel and the fierce debates that it provoked Naguib Mahfouz's nove...
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The Swahili Novel: Challenging the Idea of 'Minor Literature'
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /An overview of the Swahili novel, its place in a globalized world and a reflection on the status and dynamism of Kafka's concept of 'minor literatu...
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They Called You Dambudzo: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Compelling memoir of Flora Veit-Wild and her relationship with the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist Dambudzo Marechera, one of A...
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Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /It has been said that the difference between and language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. Both the act of translation a...
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The Language of Languages
HardcoverOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /With clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's writings on translation. Through his many criti...
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Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Fresh and electrifying—stories, poems, and essays by African and diaspora writers, edited by author Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond. Relations punctures t...
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Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections betwee...
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative" and in The Washington Post Book World as "brilliantly o...
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Gilgamesh (A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell)
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary te...
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The Harlem Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural phase of the "New Negro" ...
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The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent...
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The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940...
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