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The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures
ISBN: 9780739145111 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gender, Migration, and the Claims of Postcolonial Nationhood in Francophone Africa examines three major migrant women writers from Francophone Africa: Ken Bugul, Calixthe Beyala, and Fatou Diome. Coly studies what home means in the context of migration and how gender shapes the meaning of home. This is the first study to bring together migrant women from Francophone Africa. This is also the first study to offer a feminist critique of postnationalist discourses of home, specifically the application of postnationalism to the postcolonial context.
Gender, Migration, and the Claims of Postcolonial Nationhood in Francophone Africa examines three major migrant women writers from Francophone Africa:...
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446,00 |
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Iraq's Modern Arabic Literature: A Guide to English Translations Since 1950
ISBN: 9780810877054 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covering 60 years of materials, this bibliography cites translations, studies, and other writings, which represent Iraq's national literature, including recent works of numerous Iraqi writers living in Western exile. The volume serves as a guide to three interrelated data: o Translations that have appeared since 1950, as books or as individual items (poems, short stories, novel extracts, plays, diaries) in print-and non-print publications in Iraq and other Arab and English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. o Relevant studies and other...
Covering 60 years of materials, this bibliography cites translations, studies, and other writings, which represent Iraq's national literature, includi...
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407,22 |
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Gender and Identity in North Africa: Postcolonialism and Feminism in Maghrebi Women's Literature
ISBN: 9781848854499 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Literary fiction has always provided an outlet for social and political critique. In the writing of key North African women authors, the dissection of Maghrebi society is at the very heart of the narratives. Here, Abdelkader Cheref charts the rise of postcolonial literature written by women from the Maghreb, and provides the first comparative analysis of three of the region's most prominent contemporary authors: Assia Djeba (Algeria), Leila Abouzeid (Morocco) and Souad Guellouz (Tunisia). These writers are united in their depictions of a post-independence socio-political malaise in the... Literary fiction has always provided an outlet for social and political critique. In the writing of key North African women authors, the dissection... |
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Of Dishes and Discourse: Classical Arabic Literary Representations of Food
ISBN: 9780415595780 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scholars of the medieval Islamic period are aware of the importance of food and wine as themes in literature. Geert Jan van Gelder's witty and subtle approach teases the most out of the relevant texts as well as giving a panorama of the culture.
Scholars of the medieval Islamic period are aware of the importance of food and wine as themes in literature. Geert Jan van Gelder's witty and subtle ...
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271,44 |
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Ibn ABI Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture: A Ninth Century Bookman in Baghdad
ISBN: 9780415595896 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Toorawa re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of third to ninth century Baghdad by demonstrating and emphasizing the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate one. This transformation had a profound influence on the production of learned and literary culture; modes of transmission of learning; nature and types of literary production; nature of scholarly and professional occupations and alliances; and ranges of meanings of certain key concepts, such as plagiarism. In order to better understand these, attention is...
Toorawa re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of third to ninth century Baghdad by demonstrating and emphasizing the significance of the imp...
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271,44 |
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The Palestinian Novel: A Communication Study
ISBN: 9780415595551 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ibrahim Taha examines the relationship between the Palestinian minority in Israel and their literature, according to a literary communication model. This model enables the author to analyse how authors relate to their readers.
Ibrahim Taha examines the relationship between the Palestinian minority in Israel and their literature, according to a literary communication model. T...
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222,96 |
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Arab Culture and the Novel: Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction
ISBN: 9780415597432 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an exploration of the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. The text uses the example of the Egyptian novel to interrogate the root causes of the lingering identity crisis that has affected Arab culture for at least two centuries.
This is an exploration of the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. The...
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271,44 |
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Nationalism, Islam and World Literature: Sites of Confluence in the Writings of Mahmud Al-Mas'adi
ISBN: 9780415597067 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of the writer and politician Mahmud al-Mis'adi, a figure of prime importance in the development of North African literature and cultural politics, this book covers both his essays and fiction, written between the 1930s and 1990s. It also examines Arabic literature and its relationship to the West.
An examination of the writer and politician Mahmud al-Mis'adi, a figure of prime importance in the development of North African literature and cultura...
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271,44 |
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A Transformational Grammar of Igbo
ISBN: 9780521155144 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1970, this is a descriptive linguistic analysis of the grammar of modern Igbo. The analysis, based primarily on material gathered from two native speakers, one from Owerri Province and the other from Umuahia Province, is presented in the framework of the transformational model developed by Noam Chomsky. The grammar is a practical attempt to apply some of the advances in theoretical linguistics to a little-known language. There is no other grammar of Igbo in existence which presents a comprehensive descriptive analysis of the underlying and surface systems of the syntax...
Originally published in 1970, this is a descriptive linguistic analysis of the grammar of modern Igbo. The analysis, based primarily on material gathe...
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189,92 |
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A Grebo-English Dictionary
ISBN: 9780521155168 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1968, this dictionary of Grebo, one of the Kru languages spoken in South-west Liberia, will be of value not only to those who are concerned with using the language, but also to scholars engaged in comparative studies; the latter will have here a comprehensive and reliable body of data, presented in an eminently usable form. All the Grebo material is tone-marked, a point of particular importance in a language which is one of the few in West Africa that distinguishes four tone-levels.
Originally published in 1968, this dictionary of Grebo, one of the Kru languages spoken in South-west Liberia, will be of value not only to those who ...
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217,11 |
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Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality
ISBN: 9781438426822 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The profound effects of colonialism and its legacies on African cultures have led postcolonial scholars of recent African literature to characterize contemporary African novels as, first and foremost, responses to colonial domination by the West. In Africa Writes Back to Self, Evan Maina Mwangi argues instead that the novels are primarily engaged in conversation with each other, particularly over emergent gender issues such as the representation of homosexuality and the disenfranchisement of women by male-dominated governments. He covers the work of canonical novelists Nadine Gordimer, Chinua...
The profound effects of colonialism and its legacies on African cultures have led postcolonial scholars of recent African literature to characterize c...
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137,78 |
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Critical Approaches Vol 2. Onuora Ossie Enekwe
ISBN: 9789783503557 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second volume in the Critical Approached series is an exposition of the craft of Nigerian writer, theatre director, poet, dramatist and editor, Onuora Ossie Enekwe. The professor of dramatic literature spent thirty years developing and advancing the drama and graduate curriculum of the University Nsukka and had in addition been editor of Okike. An African Journal of New Writing which was founded by Chinua Achebe.
This second volume in the Critical Approached series is an exposition of the craft of Nigerian writer, theatre director, poet, dramatist and editor, O...
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181,95 |
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Critical Perspectives on J. M. Coetzee
ISBN: 9780333569122 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critical Perspectives on J.M. Coetzee is one of the first collections of critical essays on this major contemporary writer. The essays, written by an international cast of contributors, adopt a variety of approaches to Coetzee's often controversial work, taking care to place that work within its wider cultural context. Contributions include essays of more general import, ranging across Coetzee's oeuvre, as well as essays that analyse in more detail individual Coetzee novels. The collection also includes a preface by Coetzee's fellow South African, the internationally acclaimed writer Nadine...
Critical Perspectives on J.M. Coetzee is one of the first collections of critical essays on this major contemporary writer. The essays, written by an ...
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401,58 |
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West African Literatures : Ways of Reading
ISBN: 9780199298877 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. West African Literatures provides students with fresh, in-depth perspectives on the key debates in the field. The aim of this book is not to provide an authoritative, encyclopedic account, but to consider a selection of the region's literatures in relation to prevailing discussions about literature and postcolonialism.
West African Literatures provides students with fresh, in-depth perspectives on the key debates in the field. The aim of this book is not to provide a...
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194,55 |
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The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist
ISBN: 9781906697266 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This contemporary classic, the story of a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of Israel, combines fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy. Saeed is the comic hero. He has all the qualities that typify the hardships and struggles of Arabs in Israel. He is a simple man intent on survival and, perhaps, happiness.
This contemporary classic, the story of a Palestinian who becomes a citizen of Israel, combines fact and fantasy, tragedy and comedy. Saeed is the com...
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60,21 |
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Still Seeking an Attitude: Critical Reflections on the Work of June Jordan
ISBN: 9780739112809 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From her activism to her passionate writings, June Jordan (1936 - 2002) is one of the most revered American poets of our time. Jordan's writing simultaneously provokes delight and energy while urging reflection on American society and its injustices. In Still Seeking an Attitude, the first reflection on her legacy, Jordan's life and works are explored in depth and detail, focusing on subjects ranging from her use of language and linguistics to her political activism and role in children's literature. These critical examinations elucidate the power and poetry of Jordan's words, serving as an...
From her activism to her passionate writings, June Jordan (1936 - 2002) is one of the most revered American poets of our time. Jordan's writing simult...
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203,61 |
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A History of South African Literature
ISBN: 9780521153782 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christopher Heywood surveys representative South African poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions: Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and Indian. Heywood's selections include over 100 authors and selected works--covering poetry, theater and prose. Explored in the context of crises leading to the formation of modern South Africa, South African literature emerges from this study as one of the great literatures of the modern world.
Christopher Heywood surveys representative South African poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions: Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, En...
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272,99 |
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Critical Insights: Things Fall Apart: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access
ISBN: 9781587657115 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Introductory essays reflect on Achebe's pioneering achievement and evaluate the enduring, international popularity of Things Fall Apart. A brief biography follows, and a quartet of new essays provide a framework for in-depth study. The essays survey major trends in criticism in the novel and discuss Achebe's masterful use of language. Also included is a comparison of Things Fall Apart to major literary works within the Western cannon, such as the Odyssey and the Iliad. Other essays discuss the depiction of gender, cultural violence, and the portrayal of colonization within the novel.
Introductory essays reflect on Achebe's pioneering achievement and evaluate the enduring, international popularity of Things Fall Apart. A brief biogr...
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421,76 |
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Education of the Deprived. Anglophone Cameroon Literary Drama
ISBN: 9789956616572 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Education of the Deprived is a perceptive socio-artistic examination of the key works of some major writers of Anglophone Cameroon literary drama today. For over two decades now socio-political developments in Cameroon, including the liberalization of the press, have led to an unprecedented proliferation of political, journalistic and imaginative writings. Availing themselves of their new-found freedom of expression, Cameroonians in general are forcefully articulating their views more than even before, and creative writers, in particular, are artistically recording intimate and painful...
Education of the Deprived is a perceptive socio-artistic examination of the key works of some major writers of Anglophone Cameroon literary drama toda...
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172,12 |
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Transculturation and Resistance in Lusophone African Narrative
ISBN: 9780813014920 / Angielski / Twarda / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Represents the first attempt to bring together and analyze under a cogent theoretical framework the works of the four most prominent Angolan fiction writers living today. . . . Highly recommended."--Ana Paula Ferreira, University of California, Irvine "Original and provocative readings of writers who are] unquestionably the most important figures in current Angolan narrative fiction."--Luis Madureira, University of Wisconsin, Madison In the first volume devoted to the work of contemporary Angolan writers, Phyllis Peres analyzes the ways in which four writers--Luandino Vieira,... "Represents the first attempt to bring together and analyze under a cogent theoretical framework the works of the four most prominent Angolan ficti... |
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242,39 |
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