Father Figures in Zimbabwean Literature and Society
Author: Kizito Z. Muchemwa & Robert Muponde
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 arguments rooted in b ... |
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The Idea of Hospitality in the Fiction of J.M. Coetzee
Author: Mike Marais
How do individuals, who are part of a community, respond to the stranger "as "a stranger: i.e. without simply positioning this outsider in opposition to the community in which they are located? How may individuals receiv ... |
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Author: Jane E. Evans
Tactical Silence in the Novels of Malika Mokeddem, an inquiry into how silence may be used to challenge a gender-differentiated power system, relies on Michel de Certeau's model of strategies and tactics applied to a pos ... |
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Endings and New Beginnings in Literature and Life
Author: Stefan Helgesson
If anything is certain in human existence, it is the exit. Before the universal yet radically singular event of death, however, history leaves its mark on us by determining which exits are possible, necessary or desirabl ... |
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Author: Tanure Ojaide & Wole Soyinka
The Nobel Laureate's reputation as a dramatist tends to cloud his poetic achievement, and in modern African literature, poetry lives in the shadow of fiction. The criticism of Soyinka's poetry has so far centred on his t ... |
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Author: Francis Abiola Irele
Africa's strong tradition of storytelling has long been an expression of an oral narrative culture. African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka and J. M. Coetzee have adapted these older forms to d ... |
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Author: Woeli A. Dekutsey & John Sackey
This book of poetry by established and younger writers from Ghana represents a rare effort to compile and publish an anthology of contemporary Ghanaian poems. Some of the writers included are Kobena Eyi Acquah, Ama Ata A ... |
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Essays on Culture and Literature
Author: Tanure Ojaide
Tanure Ojaide is an award-winning writer, both creative and academic. This collection of his essays and lectures from over the past decade, addresses issues of culture and literature from a personal African perspective. ... |
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Historical, Philosophical and Aesthetic Perspectives on Epic Poetry and Performance
Author: Mugyabuso M. Mulokozi
Mulokozi discusses African epic poetry from a context-performance perspective, and asserts that oral epic poetry is a living and lived event, besides being a literary text. His work is based on previously unpublished mat ... |
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Selected Poems of Ashur Etwebi
Author: Ashur Etwebi
ASHUR ETWEBI is one of Libya's leading writers. A poet, novelist, and translator, he has published six books of poetry, two novels, and three books of translation. - "In POEMS FROM ABOVE THE HILL, ASHUR ETWEBI compactly ... |
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Author: Elaine Savory
Since her death in 1979, Jean Rhys's reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpretations from radically different critical perspectives; formal ... |
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Author: Linda G. Jones
Oratory and sermons had a fixed place in the religious and civic rituals of pre-modern Muslim societies and were indispensable for transmitting religious knowledge, legitimising or challenging rulers and inculcating the ... |
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Author: Martin Banham
This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. The roots of African theatre are ancient and complex and lie in areas of community festival, seasonal rhythm and religious ritual, as well as in the work of p ... |
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Three Mandinka Versions
Author: Gordon Innes
This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. |
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Nostalgia and the City in French Algerian Literature
Author: Seth Graebner
History's Place explores nostalgia as one of the defining aspects of the relationship between France and North Africa. Dr. Seth Graebner argues that France's most important colony developed a historical consciousness thr ... |
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Author: William W. Meissner
This book is a study of time, particularly of the nature of subjective time-that is, time as subjectively experienced and lived in contrast with time as measured objectively as, for example, by a clock. The argument fir ... |
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Author: Isidore Okpewho
In Africa the past and the present live very much side by side. African thinkers and intellectuals see their people's culture as rooted in time-honoured oral traditions and many African writers today use symbols, images ... |
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African Literature East to South
Author: A.A. Roscoe
First published in 1977, this is an eminently readable introduction to contemporary literature in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. The author examines work in verse, prose and drama, and discusses vernacular languag ... |
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Author: Julia Ashtiany, T.M. Johnstone, J.D. Latham & others
This volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature covers artistic prose and poetry produced in the heartland and provinces of the 'Abbasid empire during the second great period of Arabic literature, from the mid- ... |
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