The Narrative of the Famous Sunken City
1,300円 This work was written with the understanding that societies are not undone by a single failure, nor sustained by a single victory. They are shaped by habits, memory, and the choices people make when no one is watching. The Famous Sunken City serves as a reminder that decline is often quiet, and r...
A Modest Proposal
202円 A Modest Proposal by Dr. Jonathan Swift is one of the most daring and unforgettable works of satire ever written, using shocking irony to expose the cruelty of social indifference and political hypocrisy. Beneath its calm, logical tone lies a fierce moral outrage that forces readers to confront t...
The Advocate for Justice and Moral Compas...
1,600円 The Advocate is the true story of a woman who refused to disappear. From surviving homelessness to confronting broken systems with nothing but documentation, discipline, and moral clarity, Carol D. Mitchell transforms lived experience into a blueprint for justice. Her memoir is not a tale of vict...
J. M. Coetzee and Christianity
14,589円 This book explores the nexus between religion and literature in J. M. Coetzee's writings, as they relate to his readings of key Christian thinkers and ideas. In the process, it examines Coetzee's extensive efforts at revising and reimagining a variety of Christian legacies across his full corpus....
Agent Eve(s) in Moroccan Postcolonial Lit...
10,280円 This monograph explores female agency in Moroccan postcolonial literature through the works of Fatima Mernissi, Leila Abouzeid, Laila Lalami, Najat El Hachmi, and Aicha Ech-Channa. These influential writers give voice to Moroccan women’s experiences across generations, tracing their roles as lite...
Corporeality in the Novels of Gabriel Gar...
15,800円 This book explores the significance of corporeality in literature through a “South-South” comparison of the works of Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez and Congolese author Sony Labou Tansi. It argues that the body constitutes a basic trope not only in imagining postcolonial power relations ...
Utopia Incarnate
5,068円 A groundbreaking analysis of the cultural afterlives of mass utopia in Cuba and Egypt. Utopia Incarnate maps a shared mass utopian discourse of plenty in Cuba and Egypt in the second half of the twentieth century. Taking a comparative, "gastrocritical" approach, Eman Shaban Morsi traces the centr...
Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature
6,626円 Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature explores how normative ideas of sex and gender have shaped the development of Nigerian literature. Tracing this influence from the rise of mid-twentieth-century modernist writing to the contemporary appearance of LGBTQIA literature, Kerry Manzo presents a...
Language, Translation, and Poetic Realities
15,759円 Akínwùmí Ìsòlá (1940–2018), renowned writer, scholar, and sentinel of indigenous African languages, contributed to the development of Yorùbá literary traditions by producing most of his literary works in Yorùbá. His artistic pacesetting in Yorùbá literature included his anthology, Àfàìmò Àti Àwon...
Monstrosity, Alienation and Impossibility...
12,679円 In Monstrosity, Alienation, and Impossibility of Communication in J. M. Coetzee’s Novels, readers embark on a profound exploration of the intricate themes, enigmatic ideas, and monstrous forms that permeate the works of Nobel Prize laureate J.M. Coetzee. Building on this exploration, the book sho...
African Literature in Transition: Volume 5
15,919円 This volume offers literary histories and analyses of a wide range of genres in African literature and verbal arts. It provides a holistic and accessible presentation of African literary history that incorporates different types of texts, different regions of the continent, and different language...
Photography and Film in the Fiction of J....
17,246円 Speaking about his early experiments with the camera, the Nobel Prize winning novelist J. M. Coetzee acknowledged the seminal influence of images on his writing: 'The marks of photography and of the cinema are all over my work, from the beginning.' This book presents an archivally grounded examin...
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