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Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy
Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume Three
Av Laura Doyle, Simon Gikandi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2905 kr
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Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations. Together with Volume One (Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place) and Volume Two (Dissolving Master Narratives), it gathers thinkers from across …
Oxford History of the Novel in English
The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950
E-bok, 2016
1898 kr
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Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering …
Oxford History of the Novel in English
The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950
E-bok, 2016
1898 kr
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Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering …
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
Volume 11: The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950
Inbunden, 2016
2810 kr
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Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering …
Maps of Englishness
Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism
Inbunden, 1997
2737 kr
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Gikandi explores the politics of identity to analyze how the colonial experience inspired narrative forms that changed the nature of the English identity by surveying the British imperial tradition since the nineteenth century. He provides detailed readings of the works of Trollope, Carlyle, and …
Maps of Englishness
Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism
Häftad, 1997
762 kr
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Gikandi explores the politics of identity to analyze how the colonial experience inspired narrative forms that changed the nature of the English identity by surveying the British imperial tradition since the nineteenth century. He provides detailed readings of the works of Trollope, Carlyle, and …
The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945
Inbunden, 2007
499 kr
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The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 challenges the conventional belief that the English-language literary traditions of East Africa are restricted to the former British colonies of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Instead, these traditions stretch far into such …
Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945
E-bok, 2007
762 kr
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The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 challenges the conventional belief that the English-language literary traditions of East Africa are restricted to the former British colonies of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Instead, these traditions stretch far into such …
Encyclopedia of African Literature
Inbunden, 2002
5314 kr
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The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering criticism and theory, African literature's development as a field of scholarship, and studies of …
Encyclopedia of African Literature
Häftad, 2009
1069 kr
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The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering criticism and theory, African literature's development as a field of scholarship, and studies of …
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Häftad, 2009
879 kr
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Kenyan dramatist and novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a hugely influential African writer respected not only for his creative work but also for his criticism of wider cultural issues - issues such as nation and narration, power and performance, language and identity, empire and postcoloniality. Simon …
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Av Simon Gikandi, Abiola Irele
Inbunden, 2000
1985 kr
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Kenyan dramatist and novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a hugely influential African writer respected not only for his creative work but also for his criticism of wider cultural issues - issues such as nation and narration, power and performance, language and identity, empire and postcoloniality. Simon …
Slavery and the Culture of Taste
Häftad, 2014
410 kr
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It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that …
Writing in Limbo
Modernism and Caribbean Literature
Inbunden, 1992
825 kr
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In Simon Gikandi's view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and modernity—a relationship in which the Caribbean writer, unable to escape a history encoded by Europe, accepts the challenge of rewriting it. …
Reading the African Novel
Häftad, 1987
385 kr
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Simon Gikandi has written an insightful book for students of literature by examining the work of some major African writers.A most sensitive, perceptive, intelligent and mature piece of literary criticism such as one rarely finds. I don't think I have read anything, for example, as good on Beti as …
Reading Chinua Achebe
Language and Ideology in Fiction
Häftad, 1991
385 kr
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Analysis of the writings of Chinua Achebe aimed at students of literature.Simon Gikandi has set out to reveal '...the very nature of [Achebe's] creativity, its prodigious complexity and richness...its paradoxes and ambiguities. This is scholarship of real stature and supersedes all other studies of …
African Literature in the World
Inbunden, 2026
623 kr
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In African Literature in the World, Simon Gikandi asks: Why do debates on language continue to inform and haunt African writing? What happened when writing replaced orality as the primary form of creative expression? When, how, and why did the novel come to occupy such a dominant role in African …
Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place
Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume One
Av Laura Doyle, Simon Gikandi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2905 kr
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Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations. Together with Volume Two (Dissolving Master Narratives) and Volume Three (Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy), it gathers thinkers from …
Dissolving Master Narratives
Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume Two
Av Laura Doyle, Simon Gikandi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2905 kr
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Dissolving Master Narratives comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations. Together with Volume One (Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place) and Volume Three (Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy), it gathers thinkers from …
Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place
Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume One
Av Laura Doyle, Simon Gikandi m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
816 kr
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Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations. Together with Volume Two (Dissolving Master Narratives) and Volume Three (Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy), it gathers thinkers from …
Dissolving Master Narratives
Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume Two
Av Laura Doyle, Simon Gikandi m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
816 kr
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Dissolving Master Narratives comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations. Together with Volume One (Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place) and Volume Three (Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy), it gathers thinkers from …
Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy
Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume Three
Av Laura Doyle, Simon Gikandi m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
816 kr
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Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations. Together with Volume One (Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place) and Volume Two (Dissolving Master Narratives), it gathers thinkers from across …
Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place
Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume One
Av Mwangi wa Githinji, Simon Gikandi m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
956 kr
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Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations. Together with Volume Two ( Dissolving Master Narratives) and Volume Three ( Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy ), it gathers thinkers from …
Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place
Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume One
Av Mwangi wa Githinji, Simon Gikandi m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
956 kr
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Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations. Together with Volume Two ( Dissolving Master Narratives) and Volume Three ( Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy ), it gathers thinkers from …
Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy
Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume Three
Av Mwangi wa Githinji, Simon Gikandi m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
935 kr
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Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations. Together with Volume One (Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place) and Volume Two (Dissolving Master Narratives), it gathers thinkers from across …
Dissolving Master Narratives
Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume Two
Av Mwangi wa Githinji, Simon Gikandi m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
926 kr
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Dissolving Master Narratives comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations. Together with Volume One (Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place) and Volume Three (Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy), it gathers thinkers from …
Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy
Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume Three
Av Mwangi wa Githinji, Simon Gikandi m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
935 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations. Together with Volume One (Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place) and Volume Two (Dissolving Master Narratives), it gathers thinkers from across …
Dissolving Master Narratives
Decolonial Reconstellations, Volume Two
Av Mwangi wa Githinji, Simon Gikandi m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
935 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Dissolving Master Narratives comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations. Together with Volume One (Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place) and Volume Three (Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy), it gathers thinkers from …
