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  • Stylistic Approaches to Nigerian Fiction

    by D. Tunca ...
    Drawing on the discipline of stylistics, this book introduces a series of methodological tools and applies them to works by well-known Nigerian writers, including Abani, Adichie and Okri. In doing so, it demonstrates how attention to form fosters understanding of content in their work, as well as in African and postcolonial literatures more widely. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    Series Book 1 - The African Trilogy
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  • Allan Quatermain Series,

    10 Adventure stories of Allan Quatermain

    Series series Unsecretbooks publication
    Allan Quatermain Series is written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, who was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential.Allan Quatermain is ... Read more

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  • Something Torn and New

    An African Renaissance

    Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. In Something Torn and New, Ngugi explores Africa's historical, economic, and cultural fragmentation by slavery, colonialism, and ... Read more

    $15.99 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

  • Apartheid and Beyond

    South African Writers and the Politics of Place

    by Rita Barnard ...
    Apartheid and Beyond offers trenchant, historically sensitive readings of writings by Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form. It also explores the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Consenting victims

    The polygamy drama

    Consenting victims is the story of Olivia, a young african woman who  believes that love is between one man and one woman, despite the fact that she lives in a country where polygamy is legitimate. Olivia leaves an unfaithful husband to marry a widow who, unfortunately, proves to be as adulterous.Some time after her, he marries one of his mistresses. Here are the two women under the same roof, ... Read more

    $2.20 USD

  • Goin' Pro

    Series Book 2 - The Lost Souls Series
    Enoch Zoles is an agnostic, egotistical, collegiate football star, primed to make millions of dollars as a professional football player. But a one-night stand with a seductive vixen leads to a downward spiral of devastating events, which cost him his reputation, his promising future, and his freedom. And, after experiencing an unexpected tragedy, Enoch wants nothing to do with the God his coach ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Athol Fugard

    His Plays, People and Politics

    by Alan Shelley ...
    A playwright whose work is appreciated on a global scale, Athol Fugard's plays have done more to document and provide a cultural commentary on Apartheid-era South Africa than any other writer in the last century.Using mostly migrant workers and township dwellers, and staging guerrilla-raid productions in black areas, Fugard frequently came into conflict with the government, forcing him to take his ... Read more

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  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of Assia Djebar

    Edited by Anne Donadey ...
    Series Book 144 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    A significant and prolific francophone writer and filmmaker, Assia Djebar is celebrated for her experimental, multilingual prose and her nuanced, imaginative representations of Algeria. From her first novel, La soif (The Mischief), to her final book, Nulle part dans la maison de mon père ("No Place in My Father's House"), she offers a wealth of pedagogical and theoretical possibilities.Part 1, ... Read more

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  • Power and Influence

    Self-Development Lessons from African Proverbs and Folktales

    by Chiku Malunga ...
    Power and Influence demonstrates how the indigenous wisdom contained in African proverbs and folktales can be used to enhance modern life. The timeless wisdom contained in African proverbs and folktales enriches self-development and positive influence. The inspiring results provide deeper understanding of self-development and self-leadership, forming a solid foundation for leadership effectiveness ... Read more

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  • The Comic Imagination in Modern African Literature and Cinema

    A Poetics of Laughter

    by Maik Nwosu ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book is a seminal study that significantly expands the interdisciplinary discourse on African literature and cinema by exploring Africa’s under-visited carnivalesque poetics of laughter. Focusing on modern African literature as well as contemporary African cinema, particularly the direct-to-video Nigerian film industry known as Nollywood, the book examines the often-neglected aesthetics of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD