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  • Malawian Resistance Literature

    by Dike Okoro ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the establishment of the Malawi Writers Group in 1970 and thrived thereafter as a significant literary force in African literature from the 1980s to the 1990s. The group’s employment of subversion, orality, and various other poetic techniques that mocked tyranny set apart their expressive ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Mazisi Kunene

    Literature, Activism, and African Worldview

    by Dike Okoro ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Literature
    This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence.Kunene is widely recognized for his epic poems that assert cultural identity and condemn the disruption of the growth and development of African culture through colonialism/postcolonialism. This book explores how ‘oraliterature ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Futurism and the African Imagination

    Literature and Other Arts

    Edited by Dike Okoro ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Philosophy
    This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works.Afrofuturism was coined in the 1990s as a means of exploring the intersection of African diaspora culture with technology, science and science fiction. However, this book argues that literature and other arts within Africa have always reflected on themes of futurism, across ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Lupenga Mphande

    Eco-Critical Poet and Political Activist

    by Dike Okoro ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Dike Okoro analyzes the various manifestations of ecocriticism and political activism in the poetry of Lupenga Mphande, who is arguably Africa’s first poet to explore the existence of territorial cults and natural shrines. This book is recommended for students and scholars seeking new interpretations of the African experience in contemporary world literature. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Black Speculative Arts Movement

    Black Futurity, Art+Design

    by Souleymane Ba, Iain Campbell, Enrique Carrion, Dariel Cobb, Tim Fielder, Sherese Francis, John Jennings, Jessi Jumanji, Sheeba Maya, Dike Okoro, Rasheeda Phillips0, Stacey Robinson1, Erik Steinskog2, Quentin VerCetty3, Amber Johnson4, Clinton R. Fluker6, Wriply Marie Bennet7, Natasha A. Kelly8, Ebony A. Utley9, tobias c. van Veen0, Reynaldo Anderson1, Susana M. Morris3, Toniesha L. Taylor4 ...
    The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design is a 21st century statement on the intersection of the future of African people with art, culture, technology, and politics. This collection enters the global debate on the emerging field of Afrofuturism studies with an international array of scholars and artists contributing to the discussion of Black futurity in the 21st century. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • We Have Crossed Many Rivers

    New Poetry from Africa

    by Dike Okoro ...
    We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa is a fascinating anthology of some of the finest contemporary poetic voices from twenty-nine African countries. Inspired by the examples of first generation African poets like Wole Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo, Dennis Brutus, and Mazisi Kunene, the poets in this anthology display rootedness in, and preoccupation with, the discourses of identity ... Read more

    $160.99 USD

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  • Violence

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
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  • When Atheism Becomes Religion

    America's New Fundamentalists

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  • Living in the End Times

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