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  • Suicide

    Translated by Jan Steyn ...
    by Edouard Levé ...
    Series series French Literature
    Suicide cannot be read as simply another novel—it is, in a sense, the author’s own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most extreme of refusals.Presenting itself as an investigation into the suicide of a close friend—perhaps real, perhaps fictional—more than twenty years earlier, Levé gives us, little by little, a striking portrait of a man, with all his talents and flaws, ... Read more

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  • Suicide

    by Edouard Levé ...
    Translated by Jan Steyn ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    Suicide cannot be read as simply another novel—it is, in a sense, the author’s own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most extreme of refusals.Presenting itself as an investigation into the suicide of a close friend—perhaps real, perhaps fictional—more than twenty years earlier, Levé gives us, little by little, a striking portrait of a man, with all his talents and flaws, ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Off-White

    by Astrid Roemer ...
    Translated by Jan Steyn ...
    It’s 1966 in Suriname, on the Caribbean coast of South America, and the long shadow of colonialism still hangs over the country. Grandma Bee is the proud, cigar-smoking matriarch of the Vanta family, which is an intricate mix of Creole, Maroon, French, Indian, Indigenous, British, and Jewish backgrounds. But Grandma Bee is dying, a cough has settled deep in her lungs.The approaching end has her ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Derrida and Africa

    Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought

    by Nicolette Bragg, Jan Steyn, Kasereka Kavwahirehi, Jean-Paul Martinon, Bruce B. Janz, John E. Drabinski ...
    Series series African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
    Derrida and Africa takes up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, with a focus on Derrida’s writings specifically on Africa, which were influenced in part by his childhood in El Biar. From chapters that take up Derrida as Mother to contemplations on how to situate Derrida in relation to other African philosophers, from essays that connect deconstruction and diaspora to a ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Translation

    Crafts, Contexts, Consequences

    Edited by Jan Steyn ...
    The various dimensions of translation studies, too often studied independently, are here brought into conversation: Translation practice, including the various crafts employed by its practitioners; the specialized contexts in which translation occurs or against which translation can be considered; and the ethico-political consequences of translations or the manner of their making. Including ... Read more

    $24.59 USD