This clear, objective introduction to the politics of Czechoslovakia and the successor Czech and Slovak Republics provides a comprehensive analysis of Czechoslovakia in the postcommunist period. Carol Leff builds a framework for understanding the dynamics of the ?triple transition?: democratization, marketization, and a national transformation that

This timely study engages in the Afropolitan debate via the streets of the literary city. It first provides a historical and theoretical framework to illustrate how the literary flaneur-an aimless wanderer of the city-migrated from Europe to Africa and the diaspora, and how this figure is to be understood in relation to current considerations of Afropolitanism. The literary analysis focuses on texts set in three cities in Africa (Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Lagos), as well as three global north cities (New York, Paris, and London), considered through the eyes of various types of Afropolitan...

This timely study engages in the Afropolitan debate via the streets of the literary city. It first provides a historical and theoretical framework to illustrate how the literary flaneur-an aimless wanderer of the city-migrated from Europe to Africa and the diaspora, and how this figure is to be understood in relation to current considerations of Afropolitanism. The literary analysis focuses on texts set in three cities in Africa (Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Lagos), as well as three global north cities (New York, Paris, and London), considered through the eyes of various types of Afropolitan...