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Writing Black Panther - Ta-Nehisi Coates And Representation Struggles

by Howard, Ii (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Usa) Rambsy

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 Examines contemporary African American artistic production through the lens of Coates's groundbreaking entry into the comic book industry.
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Writing Black Panther - Ta-Nehisi Coates And Representation Struggles

by Howard, Ii (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Usa) Rambsy

~~114,91€~~ 91,93€ 20% OFF

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 Examines contemporary African American artistic production through the lens of Coates's groundbreaking entry into the comic book industry.
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Irony, Agency And The Global Imaginary In Post-2000 Nigerian And Kenyan Literature

by Dr. Penny (University Of Oxford, Uk) Cartwright

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 An examination of alternate imaginaries of â€˜the globalâ€™ in post-millennium anglophone African literature and the differing forms of agency that these imaginaries produce.
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Literature Of The Somali Diaspora - Space, Language And Resistance In Somali Novels In English And Italian

by Dr Marco (Newcastle University, Uk) Medugno

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 The first study of Anglophone and Italian novels by Somali diasporic authors, offering a new critical framework for multilingual and transnational analysis of Somali literature.
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Chinua Achebe - Narrating Africa In Fictions And History

by Toyin Falola

~~26,22€~~ 20,98€ 20% OFF

 An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe''s novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical framework. Toyin Falola analyzes fictional and historical cartographies of Africa in Achebe''s literary works to offer a critical representation of Africa''s present and future. In particular, he focuses on the historical valuation of a full range of the writer''s works - novels including Things Fall Apart, but also short stories, poems, and essays - as important materials that have contributed to the political events in Nigeria and, by extension, Africa. The raw creativity found in Achebe''s stories and his ability to tell the Nigerian story - precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial - have endeared him to many, including readers and those critical of him and his works. Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History analyzes all of the writer''s works, dwelling on the Nigerian political context upon which many, if not all, of his narratives lie. As a result, it examines methodologies of narration and ideologies that allow his works to resonate with the imagination of Africa.
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Chinua Achebe - Narrating Africa In Fictions And History

by Toyin Falola

~~26,22€~~ 20,98€ 20% OFF

 An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe''s novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical framework. Toyin Falola analyzes fictional and historical cartographies of Africa in Achebe''s literary works to offer a critical representation of Africa''s present and future. In particular, he focuses on the historical valuation of a full range of the writer''s works - novels including Things Fall Apart, but also short stories, poems, and essays - as important materials that have contributed to the political events in Nigeria and, by extension, Africa. The raw creativity found in Achebe''s stories and his ability to tell the Nigerian story - precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial - have endeared him to many, including readers and those critical of him and his works. Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History analyzes all of the writer''s works, dwelling on the Nigerian political context upon which many, if not all, of his narratives lie. As a result, it examines methodologies of narration and ideologies that allow his works to resonate with the imagination of Africa.
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Afro-Centered Futurisms In Our Speculative Fiction

~~26,22€~~ 20,98€ 20% OFF

 Creative essays from award-winning African writers speak to the multiple futurisms in their black speculative fiction.
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Jessica Huntley'S Pan-African Life - The Decolonizing Work Of A Radical Black Activist

by Claudia Tomlinson

~~27,41€~~ 21,93€ 20% OFF

 A biography of radical black reformer, publisher, bookshop owner and Caribbean politician Jessica Huntley (1927â€"2013).
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Jessica Huntley'S Pan-African Life - The Decolonizing Work Of A Radical Black Activist

by Claudia Tomlinson

~~27,41€~~ 21,93€ 20% OFF

 A biography of radical black reformer, publisher, bookshop owner and Caribbean politician Jessica Huntley (1927â€"2013).
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Afro-Centered Futurisms In Our Speculative Fiction

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 Creative essays from award-winning African writers speak to the multiple futurisms in their black speculative fiction.
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Literature Of The Somali Diaspora - Space, Language And Resistance In Somali Novels In English And Italian

by Marco Medugno

~~34,57€~~ 27,66€ 20% OFF

 The first study of Anglophone and Italian novels by Somali diasporic authors, offering a new critical framework for multilingual and transnational analysis of Somali literature. Building on the latest scholarship about multilingual contexts, diaspora studies and the rapidly expanding field of Italian postcolonial studies, Marco Medugno examines Somali diasporic literature with a comparative perspective. Considering works written in English and Italian, he argues that Somali diasporic authors share similar themes and aesthetics, thus creating an interliterary community within the diaspora space. By using multilingualism as a starting point, Medugno provides significant insights into how Somali national and individual identities are constructed in diasporic, global contexts through geography, style, form, language and the re-writing of national histories emerging out of colonization and independence. Analysing acclaimed Somali novels such as Nuruddin Farah''s Links and Crossbones, Igiaba Scego''s Adua and Cristina Ali Farah''s Little Mother, he questions any definition of ''local'' as ''provincial'', instead considering it a site for interrogating global concerns. Literature of the Somali Diaspora is organized around three themes: spatiality, language and resistance help to contextualize authors, forced by the decades-long Somali Civil War, to write outside Somalia and in different languages - including Somali, Italian, English, German, Dutch and Arabic - within global literary circuits. Their work thus creates a literature not confined within national borders but an interliterary global community, a transnational and multilingual space in which they share world aesthetic ideologies, challenge and engage with literary traditions in different languages and show an interplay between diverse cultures.
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Literature Of The Somali Diaspora - Space, Language And Resistance In Somali Novels In English And Italian

by Marco Medugno

~~34,57€~~ 27,66€ 20% OFF

 The first study of Anglophone and Italian novels by Somali diasporic authors, offering a new critical framework for multilingual and transnational analysis of Somali literature. Building on the latest scholarship about multilingual contexts, diaspora studies and the rapidly expanding field of Italian postcolonial studies, Marco Medugno examines Somali diasporic literature with a comparative perspective. Considering works written in English and Italian, he argues that Somali diasporic authors share similar themes and aesthetics, thus creating an interliterary community within the diaspora space. By using multilingualism as a starting point, Medugno provides significant insights into how Somali national and individual identities are constructed in diasporic, global contexts through geography, style, form, language and the re-writing of national histories emerging out of colonization and independence. Analysing acclaimed Somali novels such as Nuruddin Farah''s Links and Crossbones, Igiaba Scego''s Adua and Cristina Ali Farah''s Little Mother, he questions any definition of ''local'' as ''provincial'', instead considering it a site for interrogating global concerns. Literature of the Somali Diaspora is organized around three themes: spatiality, language and resistance help to contextualize authors, forced by the decades-long Somali Civil War, to write outside Somalia and in different languages - including Somali, Italian, English, German, Dutch and Arabic - within global literary circuits. Their work thus creates a literature not confined within national borders but an interliterary global community, a transnational and multilingual space in which they share world aesthetic ideologies, challenge and engage with literary traditions in different languages and show an interplay between diverse cultures.
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Birth Of Breaking - Hip-Hop History From The Floor Up

by Serouj &Quote;Midus&Quote; Aprahamian

~~22,64€~~ 18,11€ 20% OFF

 The untold story of how breaking â€" one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today â€" began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s.
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Birth Of Breaking - Hip-Hop History From The Floor Up

by Serouj &Quote;Midus&Quote; Aprahamian

~~22,64€~~ 18,11€ 20% OFF

 The untold story of how breaking â€" one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today â€" began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s.
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The Birth Of Breaking - Hip-Hop History From The Floor Up

by Dr. Serouj "Midus" (University Of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Usa) Aprahamian

~~25,67€~~ 20,54€ 20% OFF

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 The untold story of how breaking â€" one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today â€" began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s.
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Social Ethics And Governance In Contemporary African Writing - Literature, Philosophy, And The Nigerian World

by Nimi Wariboko

~~22,64€~~ 18,11€ 20% OFF

 Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing is the first book to bring rigorous literary, philosophical, and artistic discourse together to interrogate the ethics of governance and development in postcolonial Africa. It takes literature seriously as a context for philosophical reflection, vividly engaging the human agency, creativity, and resourcefulness of local Nigerians as political and social actors and shedding new light on the dynamics of human flourishing. Drawing on important secondary scholarship across several humanities disciplines, especially literature, philosophy, and the performing arts, Nimi Wariboko provides compelling and innovative analysis of the challenges and opportunities on governance and development in postcolonial Nigerian state and society. With a detailed introductory chapter and an authoritative analysis contained in six cohesive chapters, all anchored in political and social ethics and close readings of fascinating literary and artistic works-such as A. Igoni Barrett''s Blackass and the comedy skits of MC Edo Pikin-this is a landmark contribution to Nigerian cultural studies. Wariboko''s practical engagement between literature and philosophy also opens up new ways of seeing literary analysis as ethical methodology, beyond the specific contexts of Nigeria or Africa.
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Social Ethics And Governance In Contemporary African Writing - Literature, Philosophy, And The Nigerian World

by Nimi Wariboko

~~22,64€~~ 18,11€ 20% OFF

 Social Ethics and Governance in Contemporary African Writing is the first book to bring rigorous literary, philosophical, and artistic discourse together to interrogate the ethics of governance and development in postcolonial Africa. It takes literature seriously as a context for philosophical reflection, vividly engaging the human agency, creativity, and resourcefulness of local Nigerians as political and social actors and shedding new light on the dynamics of human flourishing. Drawing on important secondary scholarship across several humanities disciplines, especially literature, philosophy, and the performing arts, Nimi Wariboko provides compelling and innovative analysis of the challenges and opportunities on governance and development in postcolonial Nigerian state and society. With a detailed introductory chapter and an authoritative analysis contained in six cohesive chapters, all anchored in political and social ethics and close readings of fascinating literary and artistic works-such as A. Igoni Barrett''s Blackass and the comedy skits of MC Edo Pikin-this is a landmark contribution to Nigerian cultural studies. Wariboko''s practical engagement between literature and philosophy also opens up new ways of seeing literary analysis as ethical methodology, beyond the specific contexts of Nigeria or Africa.
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Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, And African Transformation

by Bola Dauda e Toyin Falola

~~32,18€~~ 25,74€ 20% OFF

 This timely and expansive biography of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate, and social activist, shows how the author''s early years influence his life''s work and how his writing, in turn, informs his political engagement. Three sections spanning his life, major texts, and place in history, connect Soyinka''s legacy with global issues beyond the borders of his own country, and indeed beyond the African continent. Covering his encounters with the widespread rise of kleptocratic rule and international corporate corruption, his reflection on the human condition of the North-South divide, and the consequences of postcolonialism, this comprehensive biography locates Wole Soyinka as a global figure whose life and works have made him a subject of conversation in the public sphere, as well as one of Africa''s most successful and popular authors. Looking at the different forms of Soyinka''s work--plays, novels, and memoirs, among others--this volume argues that Soyinka used writing to inform, mobilize, and sometimes incite civil action, in a decades-long attempt at literary social engineering.
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Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, And African Transformation

by Bola Dauda e Toyin Falola

~~32,18€~~ 25,74€ 20% OFF

 This timely and expansive biography of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate, and social activist, shows how the author''s early years influence his life''s work and how his writing, in turn, informs his political engagement. Three sections spanning his life, major texts, and place in history, connect Soyinka''s legacy with global issues beyond the borders of his own country, and indeed beyond the African continent. Covering his encounters with the widespread rise of kleptocratic rule and international corporate corruption, his reflection on the human condition of the North-South divide, and the consequences of postcolonialism, this comprehensive biography locates Wole Soyinka as a global figure whose life and works have made him a subject of conversation in the public sphere, as well as one of Africa''s most successful and popular authors. Looking at the different forms of Soyinka''s work--plays, novels, and memoirs, among others--this volume argues that Soyinka used writing to inform, mobilize, and sometimes incite civil action, in a decades-long attempt at literary social engineering.
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Chinua Achebe - Narrating Africa In Fictions And History

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Social Ethics And Governance In Contemporary African Writing - Literature, Philosophy, And The Nigerian World

by Dr. Or Prof. Nimi (Walter G. Muelder Professor Of Social Ethics, Boston University, Usa) Wariboko

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Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, And African Transformation

by Dr. Bola (Independent Scholar, Uk) Dauda

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In Conversation With Denise Ferreira Da Silva - New Methodologies For Race, Ethnic, And Decolonial Studies

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 Features interviews with and original writing from Ferreira da Silva, an influential black feminist and decolonial theorist, whose contributions to race and ethnic studies have pushed the field beyond traditional stakes in US-centered formulations of difference and inclusion.
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In Conversation With Denise Ferreira Da Silva - New Methodologies For Race, Ethnic, And Decolonial Studies

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 Features interviews with and original writing from Ferreira da Silva, an influential black feminist and decolonial theorist, whose contributions to race and ethnic studies have pushed the field beyond traditional stakes in US-centered formulations of difference and inclusion.
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