African Humanities and the Arts – serie
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Citizens of Beauty
Poems of Jean Sénac
Av Jean Sénac
Inbunden, 2016
899 kr
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Now available in English for the first time, translated by the poet Jack Hirschman, this beautiful collection of poems by the Algerian poet Jean Sénac (1926–1973) was originally published when he was forty-one. Sénac represented the hope of the new generation of Algerians who were celebrating their …
As She Was Discovering Tigony
Häftad, 2017
874 kr
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Dorcas Keurléonan-Moricet is a brilliant white geophysicist posted on assignment in Africa. She falls in love with a young African man, Ségué n’Di, and enters into an extramarital affair with him. In her professional work, she discovers deposits of minerals of inestimable worth. Reading the current …
Doomi Golo—The Hidden Notebooks
Häftad, 2016
735 kr
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The first novel to be translated from Wolof to English, Doomi Golo—The Hidden Notebooks is a masterful work that conveys the story of Nguirane Faye and his attempts to communicate with his grandson before he dies. With a narrative structure that beautifully imitates the movements of a musical …
Lieutenant of Kouta
Häftad, 2017
580 kr
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The Lieutenant of Kouta is the first novel in Massa Makan Diabaté’s award-winning trilogy. Featuring an introduction by leading Diabaté scholar Cheick M. Chérif Keïta and Shane Auerbach, it tells the story, part tragicomic and part hagiographic, of an African lieutenant in the French Army who …
Photography and American Coloniality
Eliot Elisofon in Africa, 1942–1972
Inbunden, 2017
1213 kr
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This book is the first to question both why and how the colonialist mythologies represented by the work of photographer Eliot Elisofon persist. It documents and discusses a heterogeneous practice of American coloniality of power as it explores Elisofon’s career as war photographer-correspondent and …
African Filmmaking
Five Formations
Häftad, 2017
519 kr
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This volume attempts to join the disparate worlds of Egyptian, Maghrebian, South African, Francophone, and Anglophone African cinema—that is, five “formations” of African cinema. These five areas are of particular significance—each in its own way. The history of South Africa, heavily marked by …
Cine-Ethiopia
The History and Politics of Film in the Horn of Africa
Av Michael W. Thomas, Alessandro Jedlowski m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
1063 kr
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Over the past decade, Ethiopian films have come to dominate the screening schedules of the many cinemas in Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa, as well as other urban centers. Despite undergoing an unprecedented surge in production and popularity in Ethiopia and in the diaspora, this phenomenon …
Taking African Cartoons Seriously
Politics, Satire, and Culture
Av Peter Limb, Tejumola Olaniyan
Inbunden, 2018
1478 kr
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Cartoonists make us laugh—and think—by caricaturing daily events and politics. The essays, interviews, and cartoons presented in this innovative book vividly demonstrate the rich diversity of cartooning across Africa and highlight issues facing its cartoonists today, such as sociopolitical trends, …
Who Owns the Problem?
Africa and the Struggle for Agency
Häftad, 2020
874 kr
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How may we conceptualize Africa in the driver’s seat of her own destiny in the twenty-first century? How practically may her cultures become the foundation and driving force of her innovation, development, and growth in the age of the global knowledge economy? How may the Africanist disciplines in …
Projecting Nation
South African Cinemas after 1994
Häftad, 2020
1478 kr
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In 1994, not long after South Africa made its historic transition to multiracial democracy, the nation’s first black-majority government determined that film had the potential to promote social cohesion, stimulate economic development, and create jobs. In 1999 the new National Film and Video …
African Diasporic Cinema
Aesthetics of Reconstruction
Häftad, 2020
1478 kr
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African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction analyzes the aesthetic strategies adopted by contemporary African diasporic filmmakers to express the reconstruction of identity. Having left the continent, these filmmakers see Africa as a site of representation and cultural circulation. The …
Passport That Does Not Pass Ports
African Literature of Travel in the Twenty-First Century
Av Isabel Balseiro, Zachariah Rapola
Häftad, 2020
1030 kr
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These seventeen pieces on travel in Africa by leading African authors take readers to places at once homelike and foreign. Against the tropes of travel writing, this book offers the acuity of vision of particular types of travelers. These are travelers whose mother tongue may find the hint of …
Meaninglessness
Time, Rhythm, and the Undead in Postcolonial Cinema
Av Vlad Dima
Häftad, 2022
1257 kr
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For too long, the approach to seemingly universal experiences like love, death, and even time in film has been dominated by the Global North. But what if such explorations developed horizontally instead? Drawing from both European and African cultural theorists, including Gilles Deleuze and Wole …
Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature
Av Kerry Manzo
Häftad, 2026
938 kr
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Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature explores how normative ideas of sex and gender have shaped the development of Nigerian literature. Tracing this influence from the rise of mid-twentieth-century modernist writing to the contemporary appearance of LGBTQIA literature, Kerry Manzo presents a …
Contemporary African Cinema
Häftad, 2016
1031 kr
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African and notably sub-Saharan African film’s relative eclipse on the international scene in the early twenty-first century does not transcend the growth within the African genre. This time period has seen African cinema forging a new relationship with the real and implementing new aesthetic …
West African Screen Media
Comedy, TV Series, and Transnationalization
Häftad, 2019
1295 kr
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The culturally rooted comic traditions of koteba theater and joking kinship have shaped West African comedies through various forms of humor. Débrouillardise (hustle) has turned the urban scene into a comic scene, a site for individual realization. To highlight the ever-growing production and …
Albert Camus, Jean Sénac, or The Rebel Son
Häftad, 2019
807 kr
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While Albert Camus is an internationally acclaimed figure, Jean Sénac has struggled to gain recognition, even in France and Algeria. The correspondence between the Nobel Prize recipient and the young poet, documented in this illuminating collection, is a testimony to a little-known friendship that …
Subversive Traditions
Reinventing the West African Epic
Häftad, 2019
683 kr
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How can traditions be subversive? The kinship between African traditions and novels has been under debate for the better part of a century, but the conversation has stagnated because of a slowness to question the terms on which it is based: orality vs. writing, tradition vs. modernity, epic vs. …
Beautiful Skin
Football, Fantasy, and Cinematic Bodies in Africa
Av Vlad Dima
Häftad, 2020
1478 kr
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In this original and provocative study of contemporary African film and literature, Vlad Dima investigates the way that football and cinema express individual and collective fantasies, and highlights where football and cinema converge and diverge with regard to neocolonial fantasies. Shedding new …
