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  • Magical Realism and Literature

    Edición de Christopher Warnes, Kim Anderson Sasser ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Concepts
    Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the fantastic, and it provided the late-twentieth century novel with an infusion of creative energy in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and beyond. Writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Salman Rushdie, Ben Okri, and many ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

  • Writing, Politics and Change in South Africa after Apartheid

    de Christopher Warnes ...
    This book shows how South African writing can help us to understand change after apartheid. It aims to shift the attention of literary criticism away from a narrow set of highbrow South African authors and towards a wider range of texts, including popular fiction. The object of analysis, at its largest level, is the South African polity as it veered between the hopeful optimism of the 'Rainbow ... Leer más

    $95.99 USD

  • Arguing with Socrates

    An Introduction to Plato's Shorter Dialogues

    de Christopher Warne ...
    Ranging from the Symposium to the Apology, this is a concise but authoritative guide to the most important and widely studied of Plato's Socratic dialogues.Taking each of the major dialogues in turn, Arguing with Socrates encourages students to engage directly with the questions that Socrates raises and with their relevance to 21st century life. Along the way, the book draws on Socrates' thought ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

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  • On Violence and On Violence Against Women

    de Jacqueline Rose ...
    A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic.Why has violence, and especially violence against women, become so much more prominent and visible across the world? To explore this question, Jacqueline Rose tracks the multiple forms of today's violence – historic and intimate, public and private – as they spread throughout our social fabric, ... Leer más

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  • A History of African Popular Culture

    de Karin Barber ...
    Series Libro 11 - New Approaches to African History
    Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • The Truth about Crime

    Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order

    de Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff ...
    In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves—it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing—from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Expectations of Modernity

    Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt

    de James Ferguson ...
    Series Libro 57 - Perspectives on Southern Africa
    Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Expectations of Modernity explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline. ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Singing in the Fire

    Stories of Women in Philosophy

    de Sandra Bartky, Claudia Card, Stephanie Lewis, Andrea Nye, Kristin Schrader-Frechette, Ofelia Schutte, Karen Warren, Teresa Brennan, Virginia Held, Alison Jaggar, Uma Narayan, Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    Ask most people to imagine a philosopher and they probably think of someone like Socrates-absent-minded, perhaps, but with a sharp intellect and a thirst for the truth. A woman juggling car pools and housework is not the first image that springs to mind, but women have taken huge steps in the philosophy profession over the past 50 years. Still, to this day, well-established women philosophers ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Ms. Prime Minister

    Gender, Media, and Leadership

    de Linda Trimble ...
    Ms. Prime Minister offers both solace and words of caution for women politicians. After closely analyzing the media coverage of former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell; two former Prime Ministers of New Zealand, Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark; and Australia’s 27th Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, Linda Trimble concludes that reporting both reinforces and contests unfair gender norms. News about ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

    Edición de Oliver Lovesey ...
    Series series Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is one of the most important and celebrated authors of postindependence Africa as well as a groundbreaking postcolonial theorist. His work, written first in English, then in Gĩkũyũ, engages with the transformations of his native Kenya after what is often termed the Mau Mau rebellion. It also gives voice to the struggles of all Africans against economic injustice and political ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Apartheid and Beyond

    South African Writers and the Politics of Place

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Different Shades of Green

    African Literature, Environmental Justice, and Political Ecology

    de Byron Caminero-Santangelo ...
    Series series Under the Sign of Nature
    Engaging important discussions about social conflict, environmental change, and imperialism in Africa, Different Shades of Green points to legacies of African environmental writing, often neglected as a result of critical perspectives shaped by dominant Western conceptions of nature and environmentalism. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework employing postcolonial studies, political ecology, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD