African Studies

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Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change

Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders

By Ousseina D. Alidou
Subjects: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: African Perspectives

The role of literature and popular songs in the cultural politics of Hausa society

The Imaginative Vision of Abdilatif Abdalla’s Voice of Agony

Poems Translated by Ken Walibora Waliaula

By Abdilatif Abdalla
Edited by Annmarie Drury
Subjects: African Studies, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: African Perspectives

First English literary translation of Abdilatif Abadalla’s influential Voice of Agony

Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers

African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War

By Cedric Tolliver
Subjects: American Studies, Class Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, African Studies, African American Studies, Diaspora Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Yields new insights by connecting Cold War counter-hegemonic writings in English and French by intellectuals of the African diaspora
 

The Postcolonial Animal

African Literature and Posthuman Ethics

By Evan Mwangi
Subjects: African Studies, Literary Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Argues for an innovative and overdue posthuman reading of African postcolonial literature

Nimrod

Selected Writings

By Frieda Ekotto
Subjects: African Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Race and Ethnicity
Series: African Perspectives

The first English translations of key essays, stories, and poems by Nimrod, a major figure in contemporary African letters

The Rise of the African Novel

Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership

By Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Subjects: African Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: African Perspectives

Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition

Seven Plays of Koffi Kwahulé

In and Out of Africa

By Judith G. Miller & Koffi Kwahule
Translated by Chantal Bilodeau
Subjects: African Studies, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies
Series: African Perspectives

The first English translations of the surreal and violent work of one of Francophone Africa’s most accomplished living playwrights 

The Magellan Fallacy

Globalization and the Emergence of Asian and African Literature in Spanish

By Adam Lifshey
Subjects: Cultural Studies, African Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, African American Studies

Now available in paperback—the award-winning first study of Spanish-language literature of Southeast Asia and West Africa

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