African Novel in English
ISBN: 9780852555521 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rise to global prominence of African literature, and particularly of the African novel, has been seen by many as a vital development in contemporary world culture. Keith Booker examines are: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood; Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born; Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy; Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter; Alex la Guma's In the Fog of the Seasons' End; Ngugi wa Thiongo's Devil on the Cross and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions. Booker uses these works to illustrate the scope and variety of the...
The rise to global prominence of African literature, and particularly of the African novel, has been seen by many as a vital development in contempora...
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Urban Obsessions, Urban Fears: The Postcolonial Kenyan Novel
ISBN: 9780852555507 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the key Kenyan novels since Ngugi published Weep Not, Child in 1962. North America: Africa World Press; Kenya: EAEP
A study of the key Kenyan novels since Ngugi published Weep Not, Child in 1962. North America: Africa World Press; Kenya: EAEP
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Chinua Achebe: A Biography
ISBN: 9780852555453 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Achebe is the man who invented African literature because he was able to show, in the structure and language of Things Fall Apart, that the future of African writing did not lie in simple imitation of European forms but in the fusion of such forms with oral traditions', says Professor Simon Gikandi of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. This biography of Chinua Achebe captures how his personal characteristics have combined with historical events to produce the man who cleared the frontiers of literature for Africa North America: Indiana U Press; Nigeria: HEBN
'Achebe is the man who invented African literature because he was able to show, in the structure and language of Things Fall Apart, that the future of...
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Writers in Politics: A Re-Engagement with Issues of Literature and Society
ISBN: 9780852555415 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old title, rewriting most of the pieces that appeared in the original 1981 edition, and adding completely new essays, such as 'Freedom of Expression', written for the campaign to try to save Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Niger Delta activists and writers from execution in Nigeria. Kenya: EAEP
Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old title, rewriting most of the pieces that appeared in the original 1981 edition, and adding comple...
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Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: An Exploration of His Writings
ISBN: 9780852555392 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This interpretation of the work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o discusses his philosophy, writing style, social and political focus, and ultimate vision and aspirations. Each work of fiction is examined in depth, and there is an evaluation of Ngugi's standing as a writer and social figure. Separate chapters cover each of Ngugi's novels, from The River Between and Weep Not, Child to Matigari, as well as his drama and short stories. There is also an examination of his social commentaries in the popular press, to which the early formation of his ideological position can be traced. Kenya: EAEP
This interpretation of the work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o discusses his philosophy, writing style, social and political focus, and ultimate vision and aspi...
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New Women's Writing in African Literature
ISBN: 9780852555248 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. African women writers have come a long way since the 1960s when they were hardly acknowledged or noticed as serious writers. In the past four decades their works have been steadily rising in quantity and quality. Today these writers are seriously redefining images of womanhood, providing new visions, and reshaping erstwhile distorted characterizations of African women in fiction. ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana Studies University of Michigan-Flint. North America: Africa World Press; Nigeria: HEBN
African women writers have come a long way since the 1960s when they were hardly acknowledged or noticed as serious writers. In the past four decades ...
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Alt 22 Exile and African Literature
ISBN: 9780852555224 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the recurring theme of exile in African literature, both as physical and mental alienation. It focuses on the writings of Dambudzo Marechera, Bessie Head, Dennis Brutus, Ayi Kwei Armah, John Munonye, Catherine Acholonu and Buchi Emecheta. North America: Africa World Press
This volume explores the recurring theme of exile in African literature, both as physical and mental alienation. It focuses on the writings of Dambudz...
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Alt 21 Childhood in African Literature
ISBN: 9780852555217 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines linguistic, literary, gender and generation issues in both autobiographies and fictional treatments of childhood in the works of Camara Laye, Wole Soyinka, Mongo Beti, Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Zaynab Alkali, Buchi Emecheta, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Athol Fugard and Issac Mogotsi. North America: Africa World Press
This volume examines linguistic, literary, gender and generation issues in both autobiographies and fictional treatments of childhood in the works of ...
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Alt 20 New Trends and Generations in African Literature
ISBN: 9780852555200 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work features articles which examine the works of new African writers who have appeared (or who have developed significantly) in the last two decades in all of the genres. North America: Africa World Press
This work features articles which examine the works of new African writers who have appeared (or who have developed significantly) in the last two dec...
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Alt 19 Critical Theory and African Literature Today
ISBN: 9780852555194 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Alt 18 Orature in African Literature Today
ISBN: 9780852555187 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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African Savannas: Global Narratives and Local Knowledge of Environmental Change
ISBN: 9780852554241 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. African farmers and herders modify landscapes in far more subtle and unexpected ways than commonly depicted in environment and development debates. This interdisciplinary collection uses collaborative research from the major savanna regions which stretch across Africa to make its case, and covers topics such as land users and landscapes, pastoral ecologies and policy, producers and resources. Environmental thinking about Africa is dominated by narratives of degradation and chaos. The contributors demonstrate that the empirical foundations of such long-held views are shaky at best.
African farmers and herders modify landscapes in far more subtle and unexpected ways than commonly depicted in environment and development debates. Th...
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From Chaos to Order: The Politics of Constitution-Making in Uganda
ISBN: 9780852553930 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of the recovery of Uganda asks whether its constitution-making process, which even involved a special election, will help consolidate the progress. It also considers the lessons for all the countries of Africa which are involved in introducing democracy. North America: Ohio U Press Uganda: Fountain Publishers
This study of the recovery of Uganda asks whether its constitution-making process, which even involved a special election, will help consolidate the p...
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Religion and Politics in East Africa: The Period Since Independence
ISBN: 9780852553848 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume describes attempts by governments to manage religious affairs in both Muslim and Christian areas of East Africa. It also shows how religious denominations act in opposition to one-party state regimes; Islamic fundamentalism and its role before and after the end of the Cold War; and the part played by Christian churches operating as NGOs within the constraints of structural adjustment. North America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers; Kenya: EAEP
This volume describes attempts by governments to manage religious affairs in both Muslim and Christian areas of East Africa. It also shows how religio...
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Learning from Robben Island: The Prison Writings of Govan Mbeki
ISBN: 9780852553565 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in association with the UWC Historical and Cultural Centre Project, Govan Mbeki's essays formed part of the political education programme that was developed on Robben Island, the 'university' for its political prisoners, such as those arrested and tried at the Rivonia Trials in 1964. 'These prison essays mark a victory in the continuing contest between the pen and the sword'. - Professor Colin Bundy in his Introduction North America: Ohio U Press; Southern Africa: David Philip/New Africa Books
Published in association with the UWC Historical and Cultural Centre Project, Govan Mbeki's essays formed part of the political education programme th...
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Comrades Against Apartheid: ANC and the South African Communist Party in Exile
ISBN: 9780852553527 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the South African Communist Party and how it took over the leadership of the ANC between 1960 and 1990, during the time when both organisations were banned in South Africa and were forced to establish their headquarters in exile. It also concerns Umkhonto we Sizwe, the Spear of the Nation, the guerilla army set up jointly by both organisations under the overall command of Nelson Mandela. North America: Indiana U Press
Examines the South African Communist Party and how it took over the leadership of the ANC between 1960 and 1990, during the time when both organisatio...
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Changing Uganda: The Dilemmas of Structural Adjustment and Revolutionary Change
ISBN: 9780852553480 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the dilemmas of introducing revolutionary changes in an African country deeply affected by structural adjustment.
Examines the dilemmas of introducing revolutionary changes in an African country deeply affected by structural adjustment.
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Beyond Hunger in Africa: Conventional Wisdom and a Vision of Africa in 2057
ISBN: 9780852553459 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A number of distinguished Africans, representing a broad range of disciplines ask what will the continent look like in 2057, a century on from independence in Ghana and Sudan? They set out to provide some 'credible alternative visions', challenging the persistent image of Africa as a continent in crisis. North America: Heinemann; Kenya: EAEP
A number of distinguished Africans, representing a broad range of disciplines ask what will the continent look like in 2057, a century on from indepen...
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Uganda Now: Between Decay and Development
ISBN: 9780852553169 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essential overview of Uganda's National Resistance Movement's desperate inheritance.
Essential overview of Uganda's National Resistance Movement's desperate inheritance.
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Migrant Cocoa-Farmers of Southern Ghana: A Study in Rural Capitalism
ISBN: 9780852552995 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This series of Classics in African Anthropology is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which dominated the academic analysis of society in mid-20th century Africa. The texts reproduced are significant yet often neglected, and have stood the test of time. Polly Hill's classic study was originally published in 1963. New edition published in association with the International African Institute North America: Transaction Books; Germany: Lit Verlag.
This series of Classics in African Anthropology is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which dominated the academic analysis of society in...
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