Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century – serie
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Fictions of African Dictatorship
Cultural Representations of Postcolonial Power
Av Charlotte Baker, Hannah Grayson
Inbunden, 2018
1164 kr
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Fictions of African Dictatorship examines the fictional representation of the African dictator and the performance of dictatorship across genres. The volume includes contributions focusing on literature, theatre and film, all of which examine the relationship between the fictional and the …
Writing the Prison in African Literature
Inbunden, 2019
991 kr
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This book examines a selection of prison memoirs by five renowned African writers: Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Ruth First, Wole Soyinka, Nawal El Saadawi and Jack Mapanje. Detained across the continent from the 1960s onward due to their writing and political engagement, each writer’s memoir forms a crucial …
Fighting Words
Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World
Av Dominic Davies, Erica Lombard m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
513 kr
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Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and anticolonial resistance across the planet been …
Global Ralph Ellison
Aesthetics and Politics Beyond US Borders
Av Tessa Roynon, Marc C. Conner
Inbunden, 2021
900 kr
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This essay collection begins the vast project that is the global history of Ralph Ellison’s life and work. It examines how and why this avowedly «American» author read literature and scholarship from across the world and has in turn been widely read outside the borders of the USA. How did Ellison’s …
Mothering and Matrifocality in Contemporary Caribbean Literature
Inbunden, 2026
919 kr
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This book examines representations of mothering and matrifocality in twenty-first-century Caribbean fiction. Through an analysis of several contemporary novels from Anglophone Caribbean writers, this study rejects the historic problematisation of matrifocality (mother-centeredness) as an …
Politics of Gender in Nigerian and Zimbabwean Women’s Fiction
Agencies and Strategies of Resistance
Inbunden, 2026
919 kr
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The book presents the first comparative study of four prominent African women writers: Buchi Emecheta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Nigeria, and Tsitsi Dangarembga and Yvonne Vera from Zimbabwe. The study explores issues of gender and resistance, while historicising and emphasising the literary …
Fighting Words
Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World
Av Dominic Davies, Erica Lombard m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
998 kr
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Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and anticolonial resistance across the planet been …
Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880–1930
Av Dominic Davies, Tessa Roynon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1289 kr
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Between 1880 and 1930, the British Empire’s vast infrastructural developments facilitated the incorporation of large parts of the globe into not only its imperial rule, but also the capitalist world-system. Throughout this period, colonial literary fiction, in recording this vast expansion, …
