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African Pasts: Memory and History in African Literatures
ISBN: 9780719064944 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'A people who do not preserve their memory are a people who have forfeited their history.' So argues Wole Soyinka, in his book The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness, and this provides the overarching thematic concept for African pasts as a whole. Colonialism for Africans is not an event encapsulated in the past, but is a history whose repercussions and traumatic consequences are still actively evolving in today's political, historical, cultural and artistic scenes. African pasts examines African literatures in English since the end of colonialism, investigating how they represent...
'A people who do not preserve their memory are a people who have forfeited their history.' So argues Wole Soyinka, in his book The Burden of Memory, t...
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102,01 |
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Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age
ISBN: 9781589837539 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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135,69 |
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Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age
ISBN: 9781589837751 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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195,56 |
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The Epic Trickster in American Literature: From Sunjata to So(u)L
ISBN: 9780415636926 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms characterizing Africa. Challenging this binary and the exceptionalism that underlies anti-hegemonic efforts even today, this book begins with the scholarly foundations that mapped out African trickster continuities in the United States and excavated the aesthetics of traditional African epic... Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among ot... |
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727,18 |
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Detective Fiction and The African Scene. From The Whodunit? To The Whydunit?
ISBN: 9789956727025 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From its very inception, detective fiction has enjoyed a great popularity among the young and the old, the learned and the not so learned. By some unfortunate stroke of irony, its respect has not kept pace with its enormous popularity. For over half a century now, it has remained the bane of creative writing. In strict intellectual circles, it is very rare to find people talk defensively and interestingly about the genre. Yet Asong has chosen to do just that. He has stoutly defended the weak by putting up a good case for its continued existence. He has also shown how irresistible key elements...
From its very inception, detective fiction has enjoyed a great popularity among the young and the old, the learned and the not so learned. By some unf...
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142,61 |
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The Fragmenting Force of Memory: Self, Literary Style, and Civil War in Lebanon
ISBN: 9781443839082 / Angielski / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study is about experimental forms of cultural production that situate and work through personal experiences of the civil war in Lebanon. It addresses selected works of literature, autobiography and memoir by Jean Said Makdisi, Rashid al-Daif, Elias Khoury and Mai Ghoussoub, and the civil war trilogy of documentary films by Mohamed Soueid. From a phenomenological hermeneutic perspective, the book is concerned with how they give accounts of themselves as remnants, leftovers and undigested remains of the civil war, and of related trajectories of ideological attachment to symbolic mandates....
This study is about experimental forms of cultural production that situate and work through personal experiences of the civil war in Lebanon. It addre...
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204,07 |
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Literature and Development in North Africa: The Modernizing Mission
ISBN: 9780415541640 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title looks at the colonial history of the discourse and practices of contemporary development which can be traced in the seminal texts of anti-colonial and postcolonial literature such as works by Frantz Fanon and Jean-Paul Sartre.
This title looks at the colonial history of the discourse and practices of contemporary development which can be traced in the seminal texts of anti-c...
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242,34 |
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Shakespeare and the Coconuts: On Post-Apartheid South African Culture
ISBN: 9781868145614 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The term "coconut" is one of several edible designations used to describe someone who, due to his or her behavior, identifications, or because they have been raised by whites, is "black" on the "outside" and "white" on the "inside." In this book Natasha Distiller explores historic and contemporary uses of Shakespeare in South African society which illustrate the complexities of colonial and post-colonial realities as they relate to iconic Englishness. Shakespeare and the Coconuts offers an alternative vision that reformulates simplistic racial binaries through an interrogation of the...
The term "coconut" is one of several edible designations used to describe someone who, due to his or her behavior, identifications, or because they ha...
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116,30 |
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Print, Text and Book Cultures in South a
ISBN: 9781868145669 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of perspectives--historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as varied as: the role of print cultures in the colonial public sphere in the nineteenth century; orthography; iimbongi, orature and the canon; book-collecting and libraries; print and transnationalism; photocomics and other ephemera; censorship, during and after...
Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of perspectives--h...
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155,13 |
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Cave Culture in Maghrebi Literature: Imagining Self and Nation
ISBN: 9780739168752 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cave Culture in Maghrebi Literature: Imagining Self and Nation discusses key postcolonial Francophone North African texts, centering on folktales, war, Berber traditions, femininity, sexuality, the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), and the Algerian Civil War (1992-1999). It explores the literary and cultural evidence testifying to the role of the cave as a locus of worship, transfiguration, dominance, and revelation in the context of colonial and postcolonial power struggles, and its wider significance in the context of nationalism and femininity, sexuality, and postcolonial identity...
Cave Culture in Maghrebi Literature: Imagining Self and Nation discusses key postcolonial Francophone North African texts, centering on folktales, war...
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446,00 |
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Transnationalism in Southern African Literature: Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture
ISBN: 9780415808798 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone literature of Angola and Mozambique. Stefan Helgesson suggests that the prevalence of 'colonial' languages such as English and Portuguese in 'anticolonial' or 'postcolonial' African Literature is primarily an effect of the print network. Helgesson aims to demystify the authority of English and Portuguese by stressing the materiality of the print medium and emphasising the strong transnational and transcontinental vectors of southern...
Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the...
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174,48 |
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The Politics of Humiliation in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee
ISBN: 9780415652605 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume, Nashef looks at J.M. Coetzee's concern with universal suffering and the inevitable humiliation of the human being as manifest in his novels. Though several theorists have referred to the theme of human degradation in Coetzee's work, no detailed study has been made of this area of concern especially with respect to how pervasive it is across Coetzee's literary output to date. This study examines what J.M. Coetzee's novels portray as the circumstances that contribute to the humiliation of the individual--namely the abuse of language, master and slave interplay, aging and...
In this volume, Nashef looks at J.M. Coetzee's concern with universal suffering and the inevitable humiliation of the human being as manifest in his n...
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242,34 |
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Psychological Constructs and the Craft of African Fiction of Yesteryears : Six Studies
ISBN: 9789956727667 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The novel remains the most popular genre in the African literary landscape. In the very large body of criticism that has been devoted to the craft of African fiction, this very stimulating study of six African novels will hold its own distinctive place for a long while. It brings to African critical thought not only an exceptional acumen of interpretation and analysis, but something much more important to most of the previous serious literary study than mere technical dissection - a keen sense of the experience and imaginative truth that make Asong's selected African texts living books as...
The novel remains the most popular genre in the African literary landscape. In the very large body of criticism that has been devoted to the craft of ...
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181,95 |
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History, Trauma, and Healing in Postcolonial Narratives: Reconstructing Identities
ISBN: 9781137367334 / Angielski / Twarda / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Did colonialism, a world-historical catastrophe, inflict only material damage on the colonized, or did it cause psychic injury as well? What would it mean, then, to read postcolonial writings under the prism of trauma? In History, Trauma, and Healing in Po
Did colonialism, a world-historical catastrophe, inflict only material damage on the colonized, or did it cause psychic injury as well? What would it ...
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200,77 |
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Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations
ISBN: 9780415647731 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together insights from distinguished scholars from around the world to address the facts, fiction and creative imaginations in the pervasive portrayals of Africa, its people, societies and cultures in the literature and the media. The fictionalization of Africa and African issues in the media and the popular literature that blends facts and fiction has rendered perceptions of Africa, its cultures, societies, customs, and conflicts often superficial and deficient in the popular Western consciousness. The book brings eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines to sort out...
This volume brings together insights from distinguished scholars from around the world to address the facts, fiction and creative imaginations in the ...
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266,58 |
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Temoignages fictionnels au feminin : Une reecriture des blancs de la guerre civile algerienne
ISBN: 9789042035928 / Francuski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Face a un reel qui avait atteint une violence innommable et par defaut de consensus historique, les romancieres algeriennes, fatalement ebranlees par la recrudescence de la violence en Algerie avec la montee de l'integrisme islamiste des annees 1990, se sont armees de leur plume pour combattre cet obscurantisme impetueux. Tout en reconnaissant la difficulte de dire l'horreur, l'ecriture romanesque fonctionne comme un detour, le seul souvent possible pour apprehender l'inimaginable et representer l'irrepresentable et, surtout, en rendre compte pour ceux qui ne savent pas ou refusent tout...
Face a un reel qui avait atteint une violence innommable et par defaut de consensus historique, les romancieres algeriennes, fatalement ebranlees par ...
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313,72 |
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African Discourse in Islam, Oral Traditions, and Performance
ISBN: 9780415653480 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through an engaged analysis of writers such as Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Niyi Osundare, and Tanure Ojaide and of African traditional oral poets like Omoekee Amao Ilorin and Mamman Shata Katsina, Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah develops an African indigenous discourse paradigm for interpreting and understanding literary and cultural materials. Na'Allah argues for the need for cultural diversity in critical theorizing in the twenty-first century. He highlights the critical issues facing scholars and students involved in criticism and translation of marginalized texts. By returning the African knowledge...
Through an engaged analysis of writers such as Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Niyi Osundare, and Tanure Ojaide and of African traditional oral poets like O...
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155,09 |
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Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel: Essays
ISBN: 9789042035706 / Angielski / Twarda / 403 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributions to this volume probe the complex relationship of trauma, memory, and narrative. By looking at the South African situation through the lens of trauma, they make clear how the psychic deformations and injuries left behind by racism and colonialism cannot be mended by material reparation or by simply reversing economic and political power-structures. Western trauma theories - as developed by scholars such as Caruth, van der Kolk, Herman and others - are insufficient for analysing the more complex situation in a postcolony such as South Africa. This is because Western trauma...
The contributions to this volume probe the complex relationship of trauma, memory, and narrative. By looking at the South African situation through th...
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593,51 |
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The Postcolonial Short Story: Contemporary Essays
ISBN: 9780230313385 / Angielski / Twarda / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book puts the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies and questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing on short fiction between 1975 and today - the period in which critical theory came to determine postcolonial studies - it argues for a sophisticated critique exemplified by the ambiguity of the form.
This book puts the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies and questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing o...
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200,77 |
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Labyrinths, Intellectuals and the Revolution: The Arabic-Language Moroccan Novel, 1957-72
ISBN: 9789004246300 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Labyrinths, Intellectuals and the Revolution traces the development of the postcolonial Arabic-language Moroccan novel from its roots in travel narratives and autobiography into its more mature period of stylistic and thematic diversity in the early 1970s. This study first undertakes an exploration of the political, social and artistic conditions under which the genre developed, then moves to close readings of each of the formative texts, grouped by theme. The analysis of these texts centers around their spatial practices: there is a tension between the labyrinthine space of the...
Labyrinths, Intellectuals and the Revolution traces the development of the postcolonial Arabic-language Moroccan novel from its roots in travel...
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423,94 |
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