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Experimental Nations Or, the Invention of the Maghreb : Or, the Invention of the Maghreb
Reda Bensmaia
Paperback - $51.95
"This book is a vehement but always fair-minded and intellectually serious contribution to current discussions of francophone literature. Reda Bensmaia means to displace the boundaries of francophone studies. At the same time, he provokes a migration ...
Bodies and Voices : The Force- Field of Representation and Discourse in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
Mereta Falck Borch
Hardcover - $306.95
Arabic Literature - An Overview
Pierre Cachia
Hardcover - $285.95
Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, this book gives a rounded and balanced view of Arab literary creativity. 'High' literature is examined alongside popular folk literature, and the classical and modern periods, usually treated separately, ...
Popular Narrative Ballads of Modern Egypt
Pierre Cachia
Hardcover - $523.95
This book is the first to survey a branch of Arabic folk literature virtually unknown in the West. Cachia, an academic Arabist who has spent many years in Egypt, first records basic facts about the development of the art of narrative balladry, its pr ...
A Social History of the Shona Novel
Emmanuel Chiwome
Paperback - $65.95
Shona literature now comprises 85% of literature published for schools in Zimbabwe, an indication of its significance for the understanding of the philosophical and historical base of (the understanding of) a language, people and nation. Chiwome's bo ...
Stories from Ancient Canaan
Michael David Coogan
Paperback - $38.95
This book teaches the principal Canaanite religious literature, and is written for the reader without linguistic or scholarly background, and should prove valuable for students of the history of religion, of the Bible, and of comparative literature.
War's Other Voices
Miriam Cooke
Hardcover - $170.95
By examining the writings of Lebanese women she calls the Beirut Decentrists, Miriam Cooke challenges the notion that only men write about war. Although of differing political and religious beliefs, it is these Decentrists--women bound by common excl ...