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Singular Performances: Reinscribing the Subject in Francophone African Writing
ISBN: 9780813921457 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Francophone African writing is often concerned with questions of subjectivity and narrative agency, and it is this focus Michael Syrotinski takes as his point of departure in Singular Performances. Using the work of V. Y. Mudimbe as a major theoretical reference, Syrotinski sets up a number of original dialogues between francophone African literature, African philosophy, literary theory, postcolonial studies, cinema, cultural studies, and history to arrive at the notion of a -performative reinscription of subjectivity.- Singular Performances covers a wide range of... Francophone African writing is often concerned with questions of subjectivity and narrative agency, and it is this focus Michael Syrotinski takes a... |
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Studies in the Short Fiction of Mahfouz and Idris
ISBN: 9780814754740 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this comparative approach to the works of two major contemporary Egyptian writers, Mona Mikhail identifies existentialism as a major force in their work. Her close examination of the images and metaphors that recur in the short fiction of those two writers shows strong affinities with the works of Ernest Hemingway and Albert Camus, concentrating on a central preoccupation with the theme of death as a constant in he works of all four writers. Mikhail shows how Mafouz and Idris not only successfully incorporate myth and folklore but also draw upon the rich heritage of classical Arabic... In this comparative approach to the works of two major contemporary Egyptian writers, Mona Mikhail identifies existentialism as a major force in th... |
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Distant Train
ISBN: 9780815608592 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "While the fading autumn sun sped toward the horizon, the young boys headed home - they were not used to trying to see at night without the moon's glow." So begins this uncoventional, hauntingly mythic novel. In the tradition of magical-realism, author Ibrahim Abdel Megid crafts a tale steeped in symbolism. Writing in a shimmering lyrical style he brings alive the dreams, customs, and everyday concerns of people living in historic obscurity on the fringe of the glitzy, petrodollar kingdoms of the Middle East. The tale begins on a worksite in Egypt's western desert. Here, in the middle of...
"While the fading autumn sun sped toward the horizon, the young boys headed home - they were not used to trying to see at night without the moon's glo...
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Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction (Revised)
ISBN: 9780815626411 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edition includes new material on the Arabic novel up to 1993. It is a survey of the Arabic novel and its development from its beginnings in the 19th century until today. It traces the origin, early cultivation and the mature period after World War II of the Arabic novel.
This edition includes new material on the Arabic novel up to 1993. It is a survey of the Arabic novel and its development from its beginnings in the 1...
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Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic Culture
ISBN: 9780815629368 / Angielski / Twarda / 129 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this text Kilito argues that genre - not authorship - is at the heart of classic Arabic literature. He examines love poetry and panegyric, the Prophet's Hadith and the literary anecdote, as well as such themes as memorization, plagiarism and forgery and the dream visions of the dead.
In this text Kilito argues that genre - not authorship - is at the heart of classic Arabic literature. He examines love poetry and panegyric, the Prop...
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Desert Tracings: Six Classic Arabian Odes by 'Alqama, Shánfara, Labíd, 'Antara, Al-A'Sha, and Dhu Al-Rúmma
ISBN: 9780819511584 / Angielski / Miękka / 87 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to legend, the Bedouin tribes of pre-Islamic Arabia held poetry competitions during annual fairs near Mecca. The wining poems called Mu'allaqat, or Hanging Odes, were embroidered in gold on banners and suspended from the walls of Arabia's most sacred shrine, Ka'ba. Desert Tracings is a translation of six classical sixth to eighth century odes. Arabic codes (qasidas) traditionally begin with the relationship of the lover to the loved. Usually set at opening in the beloved's abandoned desert campsite, where the only evidence that remains is tent marks and torrent beds in the sand -...
According to legend, the Bedouin tribes of pre-Islamic Arabia held poetry competitions during annual fairs near Mecca. The wining poems called Mu'alla...
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Colonization Violence & Narration : In White South African Writing
ISBN: 9780821411315 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The representation of pain and suffering in narrative form is an ongoing ethical issue in contemporary South African literature. Can violence be represented without sensationalistic effects, or, alternatively, without effects that tend to be conservative because they place the reader in a position of superiority over the victim or the perpetrator? Jolly looks at three primary South African authors - Andre Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, and J. M. Coetzee - to consider violence in the context of apartheid and colonialism and their inherent patriarchies. Jolly also discusses the violence...
The representation of pain and suffering in narrative form is an ongoing ethical issue in contemporary South African literature. Can violence be repre...
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Nomadic Voices of Exile: Feminine Identity in Francophone Literature of the Maghreb
ISBN: 9780821412626 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary French writing on the Maghreb that part of Africa above the Sahara is truly postmodern in scope, the rich product of multifaceted histories promoting the blending of two worlds, two identities, two cultures, and two languages.
"Nomadic Voices of Exile" demonstrates how that postmodern sentiment has altered perceptions concerning Maghrebian feminine identity since the end of the French-colonial era. The authors discussed here, both those who reside in the Maghreb and those who have had to seek asylum in France, find themselves at the intersection of French and North African... Contemporary French writing on the Maghreb that part of Africa above the Sahara is truly postmodern in scope, the rich product of multifaceted histori...
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Oral Literature & Performance: In Southern Africa
ISBN: 9780821413081 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book draws together contributions from literary studies, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and African language studies to analyze the complex functioning of oral texts and models in differing contexts. It examines the continuing role of orality in modern society, the adaptation of oral models to printed forms, and the ability of oral forms to 'talk back' to the technology of print.
Subjects include: orality and Christianity; the role of orality in the liberation struggle; domestic predicaments by Kiba performers from the Northern Province; Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom, and the image... This book draws together contributions from literary studies, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and African language studies to analyze the complex funct...
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Oral Literature and Performance in Southern Africa: In Southern Africa
ISBN: 9780821413098 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book draws together contributions from literary studies, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and African language studies to analyze the complex functioning of oral texts and models in differing contexts. It examines the continuing role of orality in modern society, the adaptation of oral models to printed forms, and the ability of oral forms to talk back to the technology of print. Subjects include: orality and Christianity; the role of orality in the liberation struggle; domestic predicaments by Kiba performers from the Northern Province; Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom, and the image of the...
This book draws together contributions from literary studies, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and African language studies to analyze the complex funct...
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Ayi Kwei Armah, Radical Iconoclast: Pitting the Imaginary Worlds Against the Actual
ISBN: 9780821413524 / Angielski / Twarda / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ghanaian novelist, essayist, and short-story writer Ayi Kwei Armah has won international recognition as one of Africa s most articulate writers. In this book, Ode Ogede argues that previous critics have misinterpreted the aesthetic and literary influences that have shaped Armah s artistic vision and overlooked his most significant and valuable contribution to the problems of writing outside the prison-house of conventional English.
Professor Ogede situates Armah s writing within its cultural, historical, and political contexts and examines Armah s ability to create new literary forms... Ghanaian novelist, essayist, and short-story writer Ayi Kwei Armah has won international recognition as one of Africa s most articulate writers. In th...
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Ghanaian Popular Fiction: 'Thrilling Discoveries in Conjugal Life' and Other Tales
ISBN: 9780821413678 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a study of the "unofficial" side of African fiction the largely undocumented writing, publishing, and reading of pamphlets and paperbacks which exists outside the grid of mass production.
Stephanie Newell examines the popular fiction of Ghana produced since the 1930s, analyzing the distinctive ways in which narrative forms are borrowed and regenerated by authors and readers. Familiar narratives from local and international literary sources are endowed with new meanings and relevance, bearing little relation to the metropolitan centers in which the sources originated. The... This is a study of the "unofficial" side of African fiction the largely undocumented writing, publishing, and reading of pamphlets and paperbacks whic...
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Ghanaian Popular Fiction: 'Thrilling Discoveries in Conjugal Life' and Other Tales
ISBN: 9780821413685 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual
ISBN: 9780821416860 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
In September 2003 the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, confirming his reputation as one of the most influential writers of our time. J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual addresses the contribution Coetzee has made to contemporary literature, not least for the contentious forays his work makes into South African political discourse and the field of postcolonial studies. A 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
In September 2003 the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, co... |
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J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual
ISBN: 9780821416877 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
In September 2003 the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, confirming his reputation as one of the most influential writers of our time. J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual addresses the contribution Coetzee has made to contemporary literature, not least for the contentious forays his work makes into South African political discourse and the field of postcolonial studies. A 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
In September 2003 the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, co... |
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Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History
ISBN: 9780821417119 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History connects the black literary archive in South Africafrom the nineteenth-century writing of Tiyo Soga to Zakes Mda in the twenty-first centuryto international postcolonial studies via the theory of transculturation, a position adapted from the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz. David Attwell provides a welcome complication of the linear black literary historyliterature as a reflection of the process of political emancipationthat is so often presented. He focuses on cultural transactions in a series of key moments and argues...
Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History connects the black literary archive in South Africafrom the nineteenth-century wr...
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Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History
ISBN: 9780821417126 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History connects the black literary archive in South Africa--from the nineteenth-century writing of Tiyo Soga to Zakes Mda in the twenty-first century--to international postcolonial studies via the theory of transculturation, a position adapted from the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz. David Attwell provides a welcome complication of the linear black literary history--literature as a reflection of the process of political emancipation--that is so often presented. He focuses on cultural transactions in a series of key moments and...
Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History connects the black literary archive in South Africa--from the nineteenth-century ...
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Against Normalization: Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa
ISBN: 9780822325529 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A literary study of South African cultural changes since the end of apartheid from 1980 to present.
A literary study of South African cultural changes since the end of apartheid from 1980 to present.
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475,09 |
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Against Normalization: Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa
ISBN: 9780822325710 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Western-style parliamentary democracy, South Africans felt called upon to normalize their conceptions of economics, politics, and culture in line with these Western models. In "Against Normalization," however, Anthony O'Brien examines recent South African literature and theoretical debate which take a different line, resisting this neocolonial outcome, and investigating the role of culture in the formation of a more radically democratic society.
O'Brien brings together an unusual array of... At the end of apartheid, under pressure from local and transnational capital and the hegemony of Western-style parliamentary democracy, South Africans...
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Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid
ISBN: 9780822329985 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Complicities explores the complicated--even contradictory--position of the intellectual who takes a stand against political policies and ideologies. Mark Sanders argues that intellectuals cannot avoid some degree of complicity in what they oppose and that responsibility can only be achieved with their acknowledgment of this complicity. He examines the role of South African intellectuals by looking at the work of a number of key figures--both supporters and opponents of apartheid.
Sanders gives detailed analyses of widely divergent thinkers: Afrikaner nationalist poet N. P. van... Complicities explores the complicated--even contradictory--position of the intellectual who takes a stand against political policies and ideolo...
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