African Articulations – serie
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21 produkter
Achebe and Friends at Umuahia
The Making of a Literary Elite
Inbunden, 2015
1419 kr
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WINNER OF THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2016The author meticulously contextualises the experiences of Achebe and his peers as students at Government College Umuahia and argues for a re-assessment of this influential group of Nigerian writers in relation to the literary culture fostered by the …
Death Retold in Truth and Rumour
Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder
Inbunden, 2015
676 kr
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Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has been reported and investigated.Julie Ann Ward was a British tourist and wildlife photographer who went missing in Kenya's Maasai Mara Game Reserve in 1988 and was …
Death Retold in Truth and Rumour
Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder
Häftad, 2015
318 kr
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Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has been reported and investigated.Julie Ann Ward was a British tourist and wildlife photographer who went missing in Kenya's Maasai Mara Game Reserve in 1988 and was …
Scoring Race
Jazz, Fiction, and Francophone Africa
Inbunden, 2017
1270 kr
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Reveals the importance of the jazz craze in France between the two world wars and the French construction of jazz as a "black music" - an exoticization which had wide-reaching effects on the artistic output of the African diaspora and on contemporary perceptions of black writers, musicians and film …
Writing Spatiality in West Africa
Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel
Inbunden, 2018
1270 kr
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Winner of the 2020 ALA Book of the Year Award - ScholarshipExamines the ways in which space and spatial structures have been constituted, contested and re-imagined in Francophone and Anglophone West African literature since the early 1950s.From the "imaginative geographies" of conquest identified …
Achebe and Friends at Umuahia
The Making of a Literary Elite
Häftad, 2018
345 kr
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WINNER OF THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2016The author meticulously contextualises the experiences of Achebe and his peers as students at Government College Umuahia and argues for a re-assessment of this influential group of Nigerian writers in relation to the literary culture fostered by the …
Written under the Skin
Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa
Inbunden, 2019
973 kr
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Winner of the 2021 ALA Book of the Year Award - ScholarshipThe author uses the image of blood under the skin as a way of understanding cultural and literary forms in contemporary South Africa. Chapters deal with the bloodied histories of apartheid and blood as trope for talking about change.In this …
At the Crossroads
Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English
Inbunden, 2019
1432 kr
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Shortlisted for the SAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2020'Honorable Mention' for the ALA First Book Award - Scholarship 2021A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing.Throughout the twentieth century, Nigerians have been writing about their travels within Nigeria …
Cinemas of the Mozambican Revolution
Anti-Colonialism, Independence and Internationalism in Filmmaking, 1968-1991
Av Ros Gray
Inbunden, 2020
1322 kr
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A timely analysis that provides a pre-history to current debates on decolonisation, the politics of the moving image, and artistic engagements with anti-colonial archives.In one of the first cultural acts to follow independence in 1975, Frelimo's new socialist government of Mozambique set up a …
African Literature in the Digital Age
Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya
Inbunden, 2021
1270 kr
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The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media.The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. Arguing that writers are putting their work on cyberspace because communities are emerging …
Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement
Poetics of Possibility
Inbunden, 2024
1270 kr
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Key study on writer and activist Kgositsile that presents a new approach to studying the radicalism of Africa and its diaspora and makes a major contribution to the histories of Black lives, gender studies, jazz studies, politics, and creativity.The cultural configurations of the Black Atlantic …
Writing Spatiality in West Africa
Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel
Häftad, 2022
345 kr
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Winner of the 2020 ALA Book of the Year Award - ScholarshipExamines the ways in which space and spatial structures have been constituted, contested and re-imagined in Francophone and Anglophone West African literature since the early 1950s.From the "imaginative geographies" of conquest identified …
Written under the Skin
Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa
Häftad, 2022
345 kr
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Winner of the 2021 ALA Book of the Year Award - ScholarshipThe author uses the image of blood under the skin as a way of understanding cultural and literary forms in contemporary South Africa. Chapters deal with the bloodied histories of apartheid and blood as trope for talking about change.In this …
At the Crossroads
Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English
Häftad, 2022
409 kr
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Shortlisted for the SAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2020'Honorable Mention' for the ALA First Book Award - Scholarship 2021A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing.Throughout the twentieth century, Nigerians have been writing about their travels within Nigeria …
African Literature in the Digital Age
Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya
Häftad, 2023
345 kr
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The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media.The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. Arguing that writers are putting their work on cyberspace because communities are emerging …
Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s – 1960s
Inbunden, 2023
1270 kr
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Groundbreaking examination of literary production in West African newspapers and local printing presses in the first half of the 20th century.WINNER: 2025 African Literature Association Book of the Year - ScholarshipWINNER: 2024 Gustav Ranis International Book PrizeFrom their inception in the …
Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s – 1960s
Häftad, 2025
379 kr
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Groundbreaking examination of literary production in West African newspapers and local printing presses in the first half of the 20th century.WINNER: 2025 African Literature Association Book of the Year - ScholarshipWINNER: 2024 Gustav Ranis International Book PrizeFrom their inception in the …
Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020
The State, the Citizen, and the Sovereign Ideal
Inbunden, 2024
1270 kr
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Providing a survey of Anglophone African detective fiction, from the late 1940s to the present day, this study traces its history both as a literary form and a mode of critical exploration of the fraught sovereignties of the African state and its citizens.Since the late 1940s, African writers …
Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020
The State, the Citizen, and the Sovereign Ideal
Häftad, 2026
345 kr
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Providing a survey of Anglophone African detective fiction, from the late 1940s to the present day, this study traces its history both as a literary form and a mode of critical exploration of the fraught sovereignties of the African state and its citizens.Since the late 1940s, African writers …
Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement
Poetics of Possibility
Häftad, 2026
345 kr
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Key study on writer and activist Kgositsile that presents a new approach to studying the radicalism of Africa and its diaspora and makes a major contribution to the histories of Black lives, gender studies, jazz studies, politics, and creativity.The cultural configurations of the Black Atlantic …
Experiments with Truth
Narrative Non-fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa
Inbunden, 2019
908 kr
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Unusable pasts; scandalous lives; political betrayal, confession and collaboration: reading narrative non-fiction across South Africa's unfinished transition.Over the last decades, South Africa has seen an outpouring of life writing and narrative non-fiction. Authors like Panashe Chigumadzi, Jacob …
