4,998円 Explores Black women writers' treatment of the ancestor figure. The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave investigates the treatment of the ancestor figure in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata and A Sunday in June, Toni M...

4,998円 Explores interactions between Europeans and Moroccans on both sides of the straits in the latter half of the nineteenth century. For the first time, readings of Moroccan travel writing in Arabic are juxtaposed with French and British writing about Morocco in a critical exploration of nineteenth-c...

42,908円 First Published in 1996. One of the most interesting features of the Harlem Renaissance was the degree to which black writers and poets were involved in promoting and analyzing their own literary movement. One of its formative events was the 1926 attempt by Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes and ot...

10,430円 Narrating Human Rights in Africa claims human rights from the perspective of artists from the African continent and situates the key theoretical concepts in African perspectives, undercutting the stereotypes of victimhood and voicelessness. Instead of positioning literary texts as illustrative of...

4,711円 An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries The African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent, from t...

505円 As co-architects of this crumbling edifice called Nigeria, the Author highlights the complacence, apathy and nonchallance of the citizens as they watched the elite pillage the nations patrimony; He highlights the role of politics in the underdevelopment of this colonial contraption called Nigeria...

1,700円 A proposta deste volume, Literatura afro-brasileira: 100 autores do século XVIII ao XXI é disponibilizar a professores e alunos dos diversos níveis de ensino dados biográficos e informações sobre a produção literária de escritores e escritoras afro-brasileiros, enriquecidos com indicações de font...

9,422円 This collection of imaginative essays traces notions of hospitality across a sequence of theoretical permutations, not only as an urgent challenge for our conflicted present, but also as foundational for ethics and resonant within the play of language. The plural form of the title highlights the ...

1,500円 Professores de Ensino Fundamental e Ensino Médio de todo o território nacional, sobretudo os de Literatura, História e Artes, bem como todos os pesquisadores, profissionais e cidadãos que buscam a implementação da Lei Brasileira 10.639/2003, encontrarão em Literatura afro-brasileira: abordagens n...

6,076円 This book celebrates Chinua Achebe, one of the most profound and famous African writers of our time, and his widely read masterpiece, Things Fall Apart. The novel remains a “must read” literary text for reasons the many contributors to this book make clear in their astute readings. Their perspect...

7,808円 Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same. African literature has commonly been seen as represent...

3,628円 "Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property...