Magical Realism in West African Fiction

Brenda Cooper
Hardcover - $264.95

Providing a thoughtful introduction to magical realism as a genre, Brenda Cooper uses Cheney-Coker, Okri and Laing to discuss the particular and distinct intervention of magical realism in a West African context. She examines the narrative techniques ...

Magical Realism in West African Fiction : Seeing with a Third Eye

Brenda Cooper
Paperback - $76.95

"Magical Realism in West African Fiction" examines this genre, as exemplified in the fiction of three of its West African pioneers, Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Ben Okri of Nigeria and Kojo Laing of Ghana.
This study contextualizes the art of ...

Move with the Crowd

John Nac Cudjoe
Paperback - $65.95

The Fenced Community is a peaceful and prosperous African town with a way of life based strictly on tradition. At the Tomato Blowers Contest, one of the series of celebrations, breaches of obligation are committed. Confusion arises at the trial over ...

Francophone African Women Writers : Destroying the Emptiness of Silence

Irene Assiba DAlmeida
Hardcover - $107.95

French-speaking African women traditionally expressed their creativity through oral storytelling. Previously silent in print, today they also speak through the written word, and their stories constitute one of the most significant recent developments ...

Victims of a Map

Mahmud Darwish
Hardcover - $36.95

Since pre-Islamic days, poetry has been the mass art form of the Arabic language. In modern times poets in the region have had a greater impact on popular culture than novelists, and there can be no doubt that Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Adoni ...

Barbs : A Study of Satire in the Plays of Wole Soyinka

Patrick Ebewo
Paperback - $80.95

A diverse collection of papers centering around themes of democracy, human rights, socio-economic development and regional co-operation in Southern Africa. Some examples of the subjects studies are: the duty of government to its citizens; democracy i ...

Poems of Arab Andalusia

Cola Franzen
Paperback - $21.95

These poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa'id, who wanted poems "whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose language is more beautiful than a fair face." Spani ...

Gilgamesh

John Gardner
Paperback - $23.95

The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry ...

Studies in Arabic Literature, Beyond the Line : Classical Arabic Literary Critics on the Coherence and Unity of the Poem

G. J. H. Van Gelder
Library Binding - $291.95

Spirit Brides

Kahlil Gibean
Hardcover - $27.95

Juan Cole's stunning and lyric translation of "Spirit Brides" revives Gibran's passionate stories of spiritual transcendence through love and suffering.