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Sign and Taboo : Perspectives on the Poetic Fiction of Yvonne Vera
Robert Muponde
Paperback - $94.95
Yvonne Vera's Nehanda (1993) signaled the presence of new and remarkable writing in Zimbabwe, and her four subsequent novels have confirmed her stature as one of the most important African novelists of the 1990s. Her art is alert to public life; and ...
Versions of Zimbabwe : New Approaches to Literature and Culture
Robert Muponde
Paperback - $71.95
The book is the result of a collaboration of scholars from southern Africa and overseas, whose work emphasises hitherto overshadowed subjects of literature, exposing new and untried approaches to Zimbabwean writing. The contributors focus on pluralit ...
Gender in African Womens Writing : Identity, Sexuality, and Difference
Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
Paperback - $35.95
Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams : Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa
Ngugi
Hardcover - $267.95
The author, one of Africa's leading writers, explores the relationship between art and political power in society, taking as its starting point the experience of writers in contemporary Africa, where writers are often seen as enemies of the post-colo ...
I Will Marry When I Want
Wa Marii Ngugi
Paperback - $23.95
This is the renowned play that was developed with Kikuyu villagers at the Kamiriithu Cultural Centre at Limuru.
Africa Wo/Man Palava : The Nigerian Novel by Women
Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Paperback - $46.95
"Africa Wo/Man Palava offers the first close look at eight Nigerian women writers and proposes a new vernacular theory based on their work. Flora Nwapa, Adaora Lily Ulasi, Buchi Emecheta, Funmilayo Fakunle, Ifeoma Okoye, Zaynab Alkali, Eno Obong, and ...
Ordering the African Imagination : Essays on Culture and Literature
Tanure Ojaide
Paperback - $65.95
The Poetry of Wole Soyinka
Tanure Ojaide
Paperback - $48.95
The Nobel Laureate's reputation as a dramatist tends to cloud his poetic achievement, and in modern African literature, poetry lives in the shadow of fiction. The criticism of Soyinka's poetry has so far centred on his themes of individuality and dea ...