Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “thomas jay lynn”
Skip side bar filters

  • Ecological Interconnections

    Critical Readings on Ethics, Sustainability, and Interspecies Communication in Literature and Culture

    by Shruti Das, Mridul Bordoloi, Miriam Adelman, Arzuman Ara, Patrycja Austin, Lukasz Barcinski, Akash Borchetia, Azzeddine Bouhassoun, Sudipta Chakraborty0, Ashes Gupta1, Saswati Halder2, Thomas Jay Lynn3, Ranjit Mandal4, Kasturi Mukherjee5, Jagriti Upadhyaya6, Erin Samant, MD. Shahnawaz7 ...
    Ecological Interconnections: Critical Readings on Ethics, Sustainability and Interspecies Communication in Literature and Culture argues that literature and cultural studies are vital tools for understanding and addressing ecological issues. This edited book of sixteen essays explores how literary texts and cultural iconography can highlight ecological ethics, promote sustainability, and enhance ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration

    Envisioning Language

    by Thomas Jay Lynn ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines vital intersections of narration, linguistic innovation, and political insight that distinguish Chinua Achebe’s fiction as well as his non-fiction commentaries. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of these intersections: Achebe’s narrative response to Western authors who have written on Africa, his integration of Igbo folklore, the political implications of writing ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Something Torn and New

    An African Renaissance

    by Ngugi wa Thiong'o ...
    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

  • J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing

    Face-to-face with Time

    by David Attwell ...
    An insightful literary biography of the Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee’s, illuminating the creation of his extraordinary novelsJ. M. Coetzee is one of the most renowned yet elusive authors of our time. Now, in J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing, David Attwell explores the extraordinary creative process behind Coetzee's work, from Dusklands to The Childhood of Jesus. Drawing on Coetzee's ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • Nadine Gordimer's July's People

    A Routledge Study Guide

    by Brendon Nicholls ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Nadine Gordimer is one of the most important writers to emerge in the twentieth century. Her anti-Apartheid novel July's People (1981) is a powerful example of resistance writing and continues even now to unsettle easy assumptions about issues of power, race, gender and identity.This guide to Gordimer's compelling novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of July's Peoplea ... Read more

    $57.99 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

    $21.39 USD

  • 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

  • Return to my Native Land

    by Aime Cesaire ...
    Translated by John Berger, Anna Bostock ...
    A work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the birth of the Negritude movement. With unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, a bouquet of language-play, and deeply resonant rhythms, Césaire considered this work a "break into the forbidden," at once a cry of rebellion and a celebration of black identity.More praise:"The ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Complicities

    The Intellectual and Apartheid

    by V. Y. Mudimbe, Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Mark A. Sanders ...
    Series series Philosophy and Postcoloniality
    Complicities explores the complicated—even contradictory—position of the intellectual who takes a stand against political policies and ideologies. Mark Sanders argues that intellectuals cannot avoid some degree of complicity in what they oppose and that responsibility can only be achieved with their acknowledgment of this complicity. He examines the role of South African intellectuals by looking ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Kalyani Magazine Issue #2

    Sound

    by Shubha Bala, Avotcja ...
    Series Book 2 - Kalyani Magazine
    Kalyani Magazine, Issue #2: Spring 2013. "Sound"Note: The e-version does not have as precise formatting for the poetry as the print or pdf versionsKalyani Magazine is a semi-annual literary publication providing a voice to those who are often voiceless. We encourage women of color to express themselves through diverse writing and artistic styles the magazine as the pillar of a broader, supportive ... Read more

    $3.50 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

  • Islam in the Eastern African Novel

    by E. Mirmotahari ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This study of the sub-Saharan African novel interprets representations of Islam as a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories like nationhood, race, diaspora, immigration, and Africa's multiple colonial pasts. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD