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Penny Cartwright,
Irony, Agency and the Global Imaginary in Post-2000 Nigerian and Kenyan Literature

An examination of alternate imaginaries of 'the global' in post-millennium anglophone African literature and the differing forms of agency that these imaginaries produce.Irony, Agency and the Global Imagi…

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Ngugi Wa Thiong'o in Context

Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Context offers a compelling and comprehensive reading of the various contexts pivotal to Ngugi wa Thiong'o's practice as a writer. Ngugi drew a complex link between his role as a writ…

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Abdessalam Benabdelali,
Writings on Translation

An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and proliferates cultural differences. Abdessalam Benabdelali is a revered Moroccan philosopher a…

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Andrea Stone
Black Prison Intellectuals

Recovering critical, understudied writings from early archives, this book calls into question the idea that the Black prison intellectual movement began in the twentieth century, tracing the arc of Black …

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Andrea Stone
Black Prison Intellectuals

Recovering critical, understudied writings from early archives, this book calls into question the idea that the Black prison intellectual movement began in the twentieth century, tracing the arc of Black …

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Amy E Earhart
Digital Literary Redlining

"While canon concerns seem to be a relic of 1990s academia, we are, once again, at a historical moment where there is resistance to teaching texts by writers of color and texts that deal with race/et…

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Wole Soyinka
The Interpreters

Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka's debut novel tells the story of a group of friends facing political corruption and cultural uncertainty in post-independence Nigeria.Friends since high school, Egbo, Bande…

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Julie Iromuanya
A Season of Light

"A tightly bound Nigerian family living in Florida [navigates] wounds passed down from generation to generation"--

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Marco Medugno,
Literature of the Somali Diaspora

The first study of Anglophone and Italian novels by Somali diasporic authors, offering a new critical framework for multilingual and transnational analysis of Somali literature.Building on the latest scho…

lieferbar ab 19.2.2026.

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Steven Belletto
Black Surrealist

"Black Surrealist. Poet. Artist. Jazz trumpeter. Member of the Beat Generation. Life-long wanderer. Pan-Africanist. Black Power agitator. Author of his own "poem-life." Ted Joans (1928-2003…

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H Lawrence Freeman,
The Negro in Music and Drama

Harry Lawrence Freeman (1869 -1954) preceded Scott Joplin, Shirley Graham, and William Grant Still in African-American grand opera composition. One of the earliest American composers to infuse his scores …

lieferbar ab 15.6.2026.

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Madhu Krishnan, Doseline Kiguru
Literary Activism in 21st-Century Africa

Drawing on case studies from Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya and Uganda, this open access book explores the ways in which literary activism operates as an essential site of self-making an…

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Stefanie Gerhold
Das Lächeln der Königin

Ihre Schönheit ist zeitlos, ihre Entdeckung eine Sensation - die Büste der Nofretete. 1913 gelangt sie nach Berlin und wird für den Mäzen der Grabungen, James Simon, zum Triumph. Doch bald werden Rückgabe…

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Akinloyè Òjó
Language, Translation, and Poetic Realities

A scholarly consideration of Akínwùmí Ìsòlá and his anthology, Àfàìmò Àti Àwon Àròfò Mìíràn ,via the analysis of the influential role of traditional forms of praise-singing in Yorùbá contemporary poetry.

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Lorenzo Casini
Occidentalism and the Egyptian Novel

This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of 'the West', in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists . Beginning with the writings of Muh…

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Mary Jo Bona
Mothers, Mobility, Narrative

Shows how US literary representations of mothering across racial, ethnic, and LGBTQ communities challenge ideological prescriptions about motherhood and maternal love.

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Martyn Bone
The Writings of Jesmyn Ward

This book considers the full range of Jesmyn Ward's career thus far. Martyn Bone examines key themes running throughout Ward's writing: Black life in the U.S. South; the legacies of slavery and segregatio…

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Hazel V Carby
Reconstructing Womanhood

With the 1987 publication of Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Black American Woman Novelist Hazel Carby produced a groundbreaking cultural history of nineteenth-century African American wome…

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M Genevieve West
Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture

Taking a close look at Zora Neale Hurston's historical and literary contexts, this book investigates why Hurston's writing fell out of favor during her lifetime only to be reclaimed and appreciated years …

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Nettie Jones
Fish Tales

A Best Book of the Year: Literary Hub A Must-Read: The New York Times Book Review ¿ Time ¿ The Week ¿ The Millions"A masterpiece." -Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of BooksA mesmerizing spi…

lieferbar ab 14.4.2026.

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