A Poetic Genealogy of North African Literature engages the poetic on its own terms, allowing poetic texts to dictate the search for meaning and significance and to expand our imagination of what Maghrebi literature in French was, is, and might become.
Forms of Mobility: Genre, Language, and Media in African Literary Cultures studies new categories of fiction—including migrant forms, township tales, weekend stories, and digital diaries—to examine how contemporary writers have envisaged southern Africa's changing literary and political terrains.
This Africa is both a literary history and a survey of the West African novel. Gleason explores seventeen novels in French and eight in English, developing a framework of literary criticism...
Nasser Mufti’s Civilizing War offers comparative readings of literature, criticism, historiography, and social analysis from Britain’s Anglophone empire. In insightful analyses of writings as diverse as those by Carlyle, Engels, Disraeli, Doyle, Kipling, Conrad, Naipaul, Gordimer, and Ondaatje, Mufti shows how narratives of civil war are integral to the politics of empire.
In Privately Empowered Shirin Edwin responds to the lack of adequate attention paid to Islam in Africa in comparison to Islam in the Middle East and the Arab world.
by Melville J. Herskovits and Frances S. Herskovits
Foreword by Jane Guyer
Melville Herskovits and his wife and collaborator Frances spent over twenty years studying the social networks, religion, music, and oral traditions of the peoples of West Africa and their descendants in the New World.
The Word Behind Bars and the Paradox of Exile grew out of a workshop that brought together a group of African writers, including many who suffered imprisonment in their home countries and/or exile abroad. For some, the workshop prompted their first attempt to write about their experiences and to compare them with others whose life and art had come under similar constraints.
On October 30, 1987, fourteen South African writers and critics came to Northwestern University and engaged in a day of discussion and debate on South African culture, literature, and politics....
These 123 tales reflect the rich oral tradition of West African folklore. Playful and sly, they teem with talking animals and shape-shifting tricksters, with pacts and promises made and broken, and with impossible deeds done through chicanery and magic.
