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  • Clear Word and Third Sight

    Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing

    by Donald E. Pease, Catherine A. John ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or “third sight,” is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated through a rich oral tradition. This consciousness has served diasporic communities by creating ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide. ... Read more

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  • Around The Globe - Must See Places in Africa

    African Travel Guide for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Explore the World Books
    See wild animals in their natural habitat when you go on a virtual tour of Africa. This culture-rich expanse is a trove of knowledge on biodiversity and how wild animals and humans live and interact with each other. Use this book to raise awareness on the importance of wildlife. Grab a copy now! ... Read more

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  • Becoming Reinaldo Arenas

    Family, Sexuality, and The Cuban Revolution

    by Jorge Olivares ...
    Becoming Reinaldo Arenas explores the life and work of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), who emerged on the Latin American cultural scene in the 1960s and quickly achieved literary fame. Yet as a political dissident and an openly gay man, Arenas also experienced discrimination and persecution; he produced much of his work amid political controversy and precarious living conditions. In ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys

    by Elaine Savory ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    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; formalism, feminism, and postcolonial studies among them. This Introduction offers a reliable and stimulating account of her life, work, contexts and critical reception. Her masterpiece, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Postcolonial Ecologies

    Literatures of the Environment

    Edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, George B. Handley ...
    The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia. Turning to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature

    Edited by Antonio D. Tillis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora
    After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction to the literary worlds and perceptions of national culture and identity of authors from Spanish ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Storyworld Accord

    Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives

    by Erin James ...
    Series series Frontiers of Narrative
    “Storyworlds,” mental models of context and environment within which characters function, is a concept used to describe what happens in narrative. Narratologists agree that the concept of storyworlds best captures the ecology of narrative interpretation by allowing a fuller appreciation of the organization of both space and time, by recognizing reading as a process that encourages readers to ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Rewriting the Return to Africa

    Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers

    by Anne M. François ...
    Rewriting The Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the masculinist version by Négritude male writers from the 1930s to 1960s. Négritude, a cultural and literary movement, drew much of its strength from the idea ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Receptions of the Classics in the African Diaspora of the Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds

    Atlantis Otherwise

    by Elisa Rizo, Madeleine M. Henry, Cesar Augusto Baldi, Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves, Guilherme Gontijo Flores, Andrea Kouklanakis, John T. Maddox IV ...
    Series series Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
    Atlantis Otherwise expands the study of the African diaspora by focusing on postcolonial literary expressions from Latin America and Africa. The book studies the presence of classical references in texts written by writers (black and non-black) who are committed to the articulation of the fragmented history of the African experience from the Middle Passage to the present outside of Euro-centric ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures

    by Cecile Accilien ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures analyzes novels and films that demonstrate how marriage affects Francophone African and Caribbean women in their respective societies. It argues that marriage serves as a catalyst for intense identity formation because it functions as a narrative intersection for a number of overlapping themes on gender and the body, class and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic

    by Anne W. Gulick ...
    The era of national liberation and decolonization may have come and gone, but postcolonialism remains a largely elusive ideal in the early twenty-first century. In Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic, Anne W. Gulick uncovers a dynamic literary history of African and Caribbean critical engagements with First World law. This transatlantic archive attests to the ... Read more

    $25.89 USD