Studien Zur Uberlieferung Und Intertextualitat Der Altarabischen Dichtung
by Werner Diem
Charte Du Mande Et Autres Traditions Du Mali (La) (Collections Beaux-Livres, #6078356)
by Aboubakar Fofana
Publication of the seminal volume African Literature Comes of Age, by C.D. Narasimhaiah (India) and Ernest N. Emenyonu (Nigeria), in 1988 generated the consciousness that African literature had attained maturity by the evolution of diverse concerns among scholars, critics, and researchers over the decades following the publication, in the English language, of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart in 1958. Since the publication of the first volume of African Literature Today (ALT) in the 1970s, the w...
Contemporary Poetry from Iraq by Bushra Al-Bustani
by Wafaa Abdulaali and Sanna Dhahir
In these original readings of Albert Camus' novels, short stories, and political essays, David Carroll concentrates on Camus' conflicted relationship with his Algerian background and finds important critical insights into questions of justice, the effects of colonial oppression, and the deadly cycle of terrorism and counterterrorism that characterized the Algerian War and continues to surface in the devastation of postcolonial wars today. During France's "dirty war" in Algeria, Camus called for...
An in-depth look at the work of Tom Clancy presents an interview with the author, an alphabetical guide to his characters, and more.
Akhmatova and Pushkin (Birmingham Slavonic Monographs, #25)
by David Arthur Wells
Widely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz's best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple-maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe owner, from Abbas the barber who mistakes greed for love to Hamida who sells her soul to escape the alley, from waiters and widows to politicians, pimps, and poets, the inhabitants of Midaq Alley vividly evoke Egypt's largest city as it teeters on the brink of change. Never has Nobel Prize-winner Mah...
Njabulo S. Ndebele's essays on South African literature and culture appeared initially in various publications in the 1980s. They encompass a period of trauma, defiance, and change - the decade of the collapse of apartheid and the challenge of reconstructing a future. In 1991, the essays were collected under the current title of rediscovery of the ordinary - essays on South African literature and Culture. That it is possible to republish the essays without revision so many years after their firs...
Writers After the Revolution (Portuguese & Latin American Occasional Papers S., #37)
by Stephen Henighan
Blood on the Page: Interviews with African Authors Writing about HIV/AIDS
by Lizzy Attree
Tongue And Mother Tongue
by Daniel P. Kunene and Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith
Critical Perspectives on J.M. Coetzee
by Nadine Gordimer, Graham Huggan, and Stephen Watson
The Quiet Chameleon: Modern Poetry from Central Africa (New perspectives on African literature, #3)
by A.A. Roscoe and Hangson Msika
Yale French Studies, Number 137/138 (Yale French Studies)
Number 137/138 in Yale French Studies, this collection of essays examines poetry in French by authors from across the Maghreb Although in recent years Maghrebi literature written in French has enjoyed increased critical attention, less attention has been paid specifically to the genre of poetry. The sixteen essays collected in this special issue of Yale French Studies show how the poem provides a uniquely privileged perspective from which to examine questions relating to aesthetics, linguistic...
