African Literature

This book examines African literature and society addressing visual language as stylistic and narrative technique in isiZulu editorial cartoons, translation evaluation in television adaptations, and socia…

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African Literature in Transition

This volume offers literary histories and analyses of a wide range of genres in African literature and verbal arts. It provides a holistic and accessible presentation of African literary history that inco…

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African Literature in Transition

This book offers a compelling vision of the dynamism of local printing presses across colonial Africa and the new textual forms they generated. Bringing together new scholarship on textual production in A…

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African Literature in Transition

"Offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as a collective memory built over the years by generations of authors. It considers what African writers assume readers know and need to know,…

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Simon Gikandi
African Literature in the World

In African Literature in the World, Simon Gikandi asks: Why do debates on language continue to inform and haunt African writing? What happened when writing replaced orality as the primary form of creative…

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Anna-Leena Toivanen
Afroeuropean Mobilities in Francophone African Literatures

Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture

This open access book contributes to the mobility humanities from the perspective of postcolonial literary mobilities and aims at enhancing dialogue between mobilities research and postcolonial literary s…

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Fresh Ecocritical Voices in African Literatures and Cultures

This edited volume brings together fresh voices, both emerging and established, on the ecocritical landscape within African literatures and cultures. In the era of the Anthropocene, the editors and contri…

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Damlègue Lare
Language, Dialogue and Identity in African Literature: Postcolonial Inflections

This book explores the contributions of language, dialogue and identity in African literature and how they shape critical perception of African literary politics. It reads from the selected writings of Ch…

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The History of Sub-Saharan African Literatures on Film

This comprehensive history of cinematic adaptations of sub-Saharan African literatures analyzes social, economic and political factors that influenced the film versions of texts across a wide range of gen…

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African American Literature in Transition, 1940-1950

1940s African American literature sits between two of the best-known periods in Black writing. Adding more intricacy to its framing, this decade's literary output commences and ends with watershed creativ…

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African American Literature in Transition, 1990-2000: Volume 16

The book contains eleven chapters of original research whose objects of study span the fields of literary and cultural production, from novels, poetry, and plays to music, television, and film. This multi…

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Marijana Miki¿
Emotion, Race, and Space in Contemporary African American Literature

American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

This open access book examines how selected African American authors---Colson Whitehead, Edward P. Jones, Toni Morrison, Brit Bennett, Percival Everett, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Sherri L. Smith, and N.K. Je…

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The Dynamics of Mobility in African Languages and Literatures

This book creates avenues for reflecting on the place of language and literature in the formation of contemporary African identities and institutions in the global age.The works explored in this book incl…

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Kirk B Sides
Environmental Entanglements

Environmental Entanglements: African Literature's Ecological Imaginary traces a long history of ecological thought in African literature.Reading African literatures as environmental literatures, Environme…

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Ryan Topper
Animist Poetics

SUNY series, Philosophy and Race

Argues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an animist revision of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic trauma theory largely disregards African …

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Douglas A Jones
Pragmatics of Democracy

This study argues early African American literature constitutes an abiding repository of modern democratic thought that is lacking in the political philosophy we normally analyze. Douglas A. Jones's Pragm…

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Daylanne English
Soul Sounds

A timely, accessible, and empowering analysis of the afterlife, offering an important corrective to assaults on Black life, art, and cultureDespite its recurrent representation, a literal afterlife has be…

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Daylanne English
Soul Sounds

A timely, accessible, and empowering analysis of the afterlife, offering an important corrective to assaults on Black life, art, and cultureDespite its recurrent representation, a literal afterlife has be…

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Delali Kumavie
The Black Aerial Imagination

Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future

Across a range of literary texts, Black writers depict taking flight to escape systems of subordination from the Middle Passage and the plantation to the present-day racialized order. While flight, air, a…

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Baalu Girma,
Oromay

"A modern classic" Observer "Astonishing and compelling . . . Impossible to put down" Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King Ethiopia, 1982: After a decade of conflict, the governme…

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