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Chinua Achebe : New Perspectives
Umelo Ojinmah
Paperback - $40.95
Power and responsibility as they affect political governance in Africa is the theme which is examined here in the works of the distinguished father of African literature. The author, a lecturer and literary critic of Commonwealth literature, identifi ...
African Literature : An Anthology of Criticism and Theory
Tejumola Olaniyan
Hardcover - $197.95
This is the first anthology to bring together the key texts of African literary theory and criticism.
Brings together key texts that are otherwise hard to locate
Covers all genres and critical schools
Provides the intellectual context for ...
Literature and the Pressures of Freedom : Essays, Speeches and Songs
Femi Osofisan
Paperback - $54.95
This volume brings together several of the author's unpublished speeches, papers and literary reflections from the 1980s, 1990s and early twenty first century. Subjects include: the writer, artist and journalist as mirrors of a nation's ethos; press ...
Nigerian Female Writers : A Critical Perspective
Femi Osofisan
Paperback - $40.95
Fifteen contributors from Nigerian universities write on twenty Nigerian women writers. The aim of the editors was to bring into focus the literary contribution of Nigerian women writers up to the present. The writers are grouped into four broad cate ...
Giving Voice to Stones : Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature
Barbara McKean Parmenter
Paperback - $33.95
"This study provides a useful survey of contemporary Palestinian culture through a reading of the relationship between literature and land. Drawing on the methods of both geography and literary criticism, it traces the evolution of what Raja Shehadeh ...
Creative Writing : Translation, Bookkeeping, and the Work of Imagination in Colonial Kenya
Derek R. Peterson
Paperback - $61.95
This book joins the study of African literature to the study of African history. Its focus is on the creative political work that writers in colonial central Kenya did with texts. Generations of African innovators wrote scripts, composed casts of cha ...
J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual
Jane Poyner
Hardcover - $96.95
In September 2003 the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, confirming his reputation as one of the most influential writers of our time. J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual addresses the c ...
J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual
Jane Poyner
Paperback - $48.95
In September 2003 the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, confirming his reputation as one of the most influential writers of our time. J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual addresses the c ...