Routledge Studies in African Literature – serie
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Nigeria's Third-Generation Literature
Content and Form
Av Ode Ogede
Inbunden, 2023
2466 kr
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This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria’s third-generation literature, which emerged between the late 1980s and the early 1990s and is marked by expressive modes and concerns distinctly different from those of the preceding era.The creative writing of this period reflects …
Nigeria's Third-Generation Literature
Content and Form
Av Ode Ogede
Häftad, 2024
749 kr
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This book considers the evolution and characteristics of Nigeria’s third-generation literature, which emerged between the late 1980s and the early 1990s and is marked by expressive modes and concerns distinctly different from those of the preceding era.The creative writing of this period reflects …
Autobiography, Memory and Nationhood in Anglophone Africa
Av David Ekanem Udoinwang, James Tar Tsaaior
Inbunden, 2022
2905 kr
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This book provides an important critical analysis of the autobiographies of nine major leaders of national liberation movements in Africa. By examining their self-narratives, we can better understand how decolonisation unfolded and how activist-politicians sought to immortalise their roles for …
Autobiography, Memory and Nationhood in Anglophone Africa
Av David Ekanem Udoinwang, James Tar Tsaaior
Häftad, 2024
749 kr
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This book provides an important critical analysis of the autobiographies of nine major leaders of national liberation movements in Africa. By examining their self-narratives, we can better understand how decolonisation unfolded and how activist-politicians sought to immortalise their roles for …
Mazisi Kunene
Literature, Activism, and African Worldview
Av Dike Okoro
Inbunden, 2022
2467 kr
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This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence.Kunene is widely recognized for his epic poems that assert cultural identity and condemn the disruption of the growth and …
Mazisi Kunene
Literature, Activism, and African Worldview
Av Dike Okoro
Häftad, 2022
715 kr
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This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence.Kunene is widely recognized for his epic poems that assert cultural identity and condemn the disruption of the growth and …
African Women Narrating Identity
Local and Global Journeys of the Self
Inbunden, 2023
2905 kr
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This book examines the complexities of women’s lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America through the literary works of key African women writers. Using a postcolonial analytical framework, the book highlights the commonalities of African women’s identities and …
African Women Narrating Identity
Local and Global Journeys of the Self
Häftad, 2024
749 kr
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This book examines the complexities of women’s lives in Africa and the transnational spaces of Europe and North America through the literary works of key African women writers. Using a postcolonial analytical framework, the book highlights the commonalities of African women’s identities and …
African Shakespeare
Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations
Av Ifeoluwa Aboluwade, Serena Talento m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2904 kr
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African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies, and experimentations that have emerged from performative, political, literary, and conceptual encounters with Shakespeare and his oeuvre in African contexts. Divided into three broad …
African Shakespeare
Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations
Av Ifeoluwa Aboluwade, Serena Talento m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
816 kr
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African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies, and experimentations that have emerged from performative, political, literary, and conceptual encounters with Shakespeare and his oeuvre in African contexts. Divided into three broad …
Sindiwe Magona and the Power of Paradox
Challenging the Polarization of South African Discourse
Inbunden, 2024
2904 kr
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This book examines the work of Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa’s most prolific and groundbreaking writers, widely recognized for highlighting the everyday experiences of women and the domestic side of apartheid. A pioneer among black African women writers, she is equally respected as …
Sindiwe Magona and the Power of Paradox
Challenging the Polarization of South African Discourse
Häftad, 2025
816 kr
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This book examines the work of Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa’s most prolific and groundbreaking writers, widely recognized for highlighting the everyday experiences of women and the domestic side of apartheid. A pioneer among black African women writers, she is equally respected as …
Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989
Inbunden, 2024
2904 kr
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The Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989 examines the trajectory of the Moroccan experimental novel and makes a link between its emergence in the early-mid 1970s and the Arab defeat in the six-day war with Israel in 1967.Drawing on works by Muḥammad Barrādah, ʿAbdullāh al-ʿArwī, Aḥmad …
Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989
Häftad, 2026
816 kr
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The Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989 examines the trajectory of the Moroccan experimental novel and makes a link between its emergence in the early-mid 1970s and the Arab defeat in the six-day war with Israel in 1967.Drawing on works by Muḥammad Barrādah, ʿAbdullāh al-ʿArwī, Aḥmad …
Magical Realism in Africa
Literary and Dramatic Explorations
Av Sarali Gintsburg, Kenneth Usongo
Inbunden, 2024
2904 kr
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Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism from a transregional and inclusive approach, drawing on contributions from different literary genres across the continent.The chapters in this book constitute a sustained and …
Magical Realism in Africa
Literary and Dramatic Explorations
Av Sarali Gintsburg, Kenneth Usongo
Häftad, 2026
766 kr
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Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism from a transregional and inclusive approach, drawing on contributions from different literary genres across the continent.The chapters in this book constitute a sustained and …
Time and Nature in the Poetry of Niyi Osundare
Poetics of Animism, Anthropocene, and Capitalocene
Inbunden, 2024
2904 kr
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This book provides an ecocritical analysis of the poetry of the famous Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare. It interrogates the intricate interface between time and nature in 11 of Osundare’s defining poetry collections. This is a book of postcolonial ecocriticism from an African perspective. It brings …
Time and Nature in the Poetry of Niyi Osundare
Poetics of Animism, Anthropocene, and Capitalocene
Häftad, 2025
816 kr
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This book provides an ecocritical analysis of the poetry of the famous Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare. It interrogates the intricate interface between time and nature in 11 of Osundare’s defining poetry collections. This is a book of postcolonial ecocriticism from an African perspective. It brings …
Insidious Trauma in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures
Av Norman Saadi Nikro, Denish Odanga m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2884 kr
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This book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma in contemporary eastern African literatures and cultural productions.The book extends our understanding of trauma beyond people’s immediate and conventional experiences of disastrous events and incidents, instead …
Insidious Trauma in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures
Av Norman Saadi Nikro, Denish Odanga m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
810 kr
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This book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma in contemporary eastern African literatures and cultural productions.The book extends our understanding of trauma beyond people’s immediate and conventional experiences of disastrous events and incidents, instead …
Violence and Memory in Zimbabwean Literature
Armed Peace in the Postcolonial Era
Inbunden, 2025
2884 kr
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This book investigates how Zimbabwean literary texts subvert state-sponsored amnesia when it comes to the many forms of past and ongoing political violence in Zimbabwe.Zimbabwean Literature provides an important space for confronting the past and reflecting on how violence continues into the …
Swahili Novels of Tanzanian Women
Agency, Tradition, and Change
Häftad, 2026
760 kr
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This book provides a rich and full analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their important contributions to the living Swahili literary and intellectual tradition.Compared to the diverse and centuries-old oral literature, or religious-philosophical poetry …
Swahili Novels of Tanzanian Women
Agency, Tradition, and Change
Inbunden, 2024
2884 kr
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This book provides a rich and full analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their important contributions to the living Swahili literary and intellectual tradition.Compared to the diverse and centuries-old oral literature, or religious-philosophical poetry …
Contemporary Somali Diasporic Literature
Ambivalent Belonging and Phobic Cosmopolitanism
Inbunden, 2025
2904 kr
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This book considers how the literature of the Somali diaspora deploys themes of ambivalent belonging in cosmopolitan spaces.The book starts by building a picture of cosmopolitanism thinking from the European Enlightenment through to key postcolonial thinkers like Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, and …
Zimbabwean Women Writers
Writing the Nation
Av Esther Mavengano, Collen Sabao m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
2863 kr
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This book is a powerful testament to the transformative force of women’s storytelling in shaping Zimbabwe’s past and present, and in boldly reimagining its future.Spanning the colonial period to the contemporary moment, the book reconfigures the contours of Zimbabwean Literature by challenging …
Rereading Chenjerai Hove
Rupture and Suture in Zimbabwean Literature
Inbunden, 2026
2904 kr
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This book assesses the life and works of the leading Zimbabwean poet and novelist, Chenjerai Hove. Proposing a reading of Hove’s work through the dual concepts of rupture and suture, this book investigates Hove’s position as a writer at home and in exile.Described affectionately as ‘Change’ by his …
Postcolonial Disillusionment and Migration in African Literature
Av Oyewumi Olatoye Agunbiade, Sone Mirabeau Enongene
Inbunden, 2026
2904 kr
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This book investigates the many ways in which African literature has engaged with themes of migration and postcolonial disillusionment.The book argues that disillusionment amongst African migrants facing discrimination abroad has become a microcosm for postcolonial disillusionment at home. Drawing …
