Mobility in Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature in English (Routledge Contemporary Africa)
by Magdalena Pfalzgraf
This monograph explores the concept of mobility in Zimbabwean works of fiction published in English between the introduction of the controversial Fast Track Land Reform Programme and the end of the Mugabe era.Since 2000, Zimbabwe has experienced unprecedented levels of transnational out-migration in response to the political conflicts and economic downturn often referred to as the Zimbabwe Crisis. This, in turn, has led to an increased outpouring of literary texts about migration, both in locall...
Nineteenth-century European representations of Africa are notorious for depicting the continent with a blank interior. But there was a time when British writers filled Africa with landed empires and contiguous trade routes linked together by a network of rivers. This geographical narrative proliferated in fictional and nonfictional texts alike, and it was born not from fanciful speculation but from British interpretations of what Africans said and showed about themselves and their worlds. Invest...
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
Since the final demise of apartheid in 1994, South Africa has undergone dramatic changes in the political, social, and economic sphere. It is not surprising that these changes have also resulted in contentious reassessments of recent history. Many contemporary South African writers have taken up the challenge and created works offering new ways of critically re-imagining the country's violent past. While Andre P. Brink's "Imaginings of Sand" and Zakes "Mda's Ways of Dying" constitute renegotiati...
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 the Wake of the Poetic (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)
by Najat Rahman
Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades. As it increasingly gains a significant presence on the international scene, much of Palestinian art owes a debt to Mahmoud Darwish, one of the finest contemporary poets, and to Palestinian writers of his generation. Rahman maps the immense influence of Darwish's poetry on a new generation of performance artists, visual artists, spoken-wo...
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