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The Storm
Kahlil Gibran
Hardcover - $30.95
"The Storm" gives definitive expression to many of Gibran's key themes: the injustice meted out to the poor and the weak; the beauties of nature needlessly destroyed by man; and the innocent purity of young love, so often crushed underfoot by society ...
The Vision
Kahlil Gibran
Hardcover - $29.95
In search of the "truth", Gibran could find no single religious tradition which completely revealed its intention. Thus he wove together insights from Eastern Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, American Transcendentalism, and the folklore of his native L ...
Literature and Development in North Africa : The Modernizing Mission
Perri Giovannucci
Hardcover - $187.95
The colonial history of the discourse and practices of contemporary, modern development may be traced in the seminal texts of anti-colonial and postcolonial literature, such as works by Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi and Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as in t ...
Living in Hope and History : Notes from Our Century
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback - $36.95
Internationally celebrated for her novels, Nadine Gordimer has devoted much of her life and fiction to the political struggles of the Third World, the New World, and her native South Africa. "Living in Hope and History is an on-the-spot record of her ...
A Literary Revolution : In the Spirit of the Harlem Renaissance
Sandra M. Grayson
Paperback - $57.95
The Composition of Mutanabbi's Panegyrics to Sayf Al-Dawla
Andras Hamori
Hardcover - $238.95
The purpose of this study is to identify and describe recurrent patterns of composition in the twenty two major panegyrics Mutanabb? wrote to Sayf al-Dawla during his stay at the ?amd?nid court in Aleppo between 337/948 and 345/956.
It discusses t ...
Tayeb Salih : Ideology and the Craft of Fiction
Wail S. Hassan
Paperback - $33.95
The first book-length interpretation of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's fiction.
J. M. Coetzee
Dominic Head
Hardcover - $210.95
J. M. Coetzee's work addresses some of the key critical issues of our time: the relationship between postmodernism and postcolonialism, the role of history in the novel, and, repeatedly, how the author can combine a political consciousness with a com ...
Nadine Gordimer
Dominic Head
Paperback - $69.95
In this study, which may be used as an introduction as well as by those already familiar with Gordimer's work, Dominic Head discusses each of Nadine Gordimer's novels in detail, examining the texts both as a reflection of events and situations in the ...