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  • Literature from the Peripheries

    Refrigerated Culture and Pluralism

    by Prachi Behrani, Renee Latchman, Neelima B, Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah, Saji Mathew, Risha Baruam, Maitrayee Misra, Anupama Nayar, Medha Bhadra Chowdhury, Asijit Datta, Asis De, Denise M. Jarrett, Munira Salim, Vinaya Kumari, Sindhura Dutta ...
    Literature from the Peripheries: Refrigerated Culture and Pluralism is a collection of chapters dealing with multiple minority cultures from all over the world. The book examines the status of several less known cultures or cultural communities which exist in the peripheries of space and time. In addition to this, the arguments and the discourses running through chapters prove the need of cultural ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    by Ernest N. Emenyonu, Janet N. Ndula, Janice Spleth, Jessica C. Hume, Louisa Uchum Egbunike, Maitrayee Misra, Manish Shrivastava, Mary Jane Androne, Oluwole Coker, Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo0, Rose Sackeyfio1, Carol Ijeoma Njoku2, Silvana Carotenuto3, Chikwendu PK Anyanwu4, Cristina Cruz-Gutiérrez5, Edgar Fred Nabutanyi6, Gichingiri Ndigirigi7, Iniobong I. Uko8, Jane Duran9 ...
    Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps and introduced new motifs and narrative styles which have energized contemporary African fiction since her first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003). With Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) and The Thing Around Your Neck - Short Stories (2009), she established herself as a preeminent story-teller. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • On Nineteen Eighty-Four

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  • Performance and Power

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