Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> African

Prose of the World explores the global life of this narrative aesthetic, from late-colonial modernism to the present day, focusing on a writer each from Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa,...

Storyworlds, mental models of context and environment within which characters function, is a concept used to describe what happens in narrative. Narratologists agree that the concept of storyworlds best captures the ecology of narrative interpretation by allowing a fuller appreciation of the organization of both space and time, by recognizing reading as a process that encourages readers to compare the world of a text to other possible worlds, and by highlighting the power of narrative to immerse readers in new and unfamiliar environments.

Focusing on the work of writers from...

WHAT IF AFRICA'S PROBLEMS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CORRUPTION, BAD LEADERSHIP, ETHNIC CONFLICTS, NON-INDUSTRIALISATION ETC THAT WE HAVE BEEN SO USED TO BELIEVING?

What if there are 7 deeper underlying reasons for Africa's state of affairs? What if the questions raised in this book have within them, answers on:

**Why Africa has vast natural resources, yet over-dependency on external aid?;
**Why the many conflicts even though we largely do not manufacture arms?;
**Why the vast fertile lands, yet deaths from famine and malnutrition?;
**Why the devilish scourge of corruption,...

In African studies, the "Echeruoan ideal" is understood as an intervention or intellectual engagement characterized by a broadness of vision as well as a depth of analysis. The essays gathered in this volume celebrate that ideal and honor Echeruo s contribution to the African intellectual tradition. Editors Nwosu and Obiwu explore the driving forces in the literature of Africa
and the African diaspora. Contributors examine such themes as migration and exile, trauma and repression, violence and rebellion, and gender and human rights. Showcasing a rich diversity of cultural and academic...

There's no-one in the streets but us. You run that way and I'll run this way. Whoever gets back to the front door first without getting shot, wins.

In a Palestinian town eleven-year-old Lubna and twelve-year-old Khalil are playing on the empty stairwell in their apartment block. As the siege intensifies outside, fear for their safety becomes as crippling as the conflict itself.

Dalia Taha's play offers a new way of seeing how war fractures childhood. Fireworks (Al'ab Nariya) is part of International Playwrights: A Genesis Foundation Project and received its world...