Representing Africa in Children's Literature

Old and New Ways of Seeing

By Vivian Yenika-Agbaw

Representing Africa in Children’s Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and...

Published October 29th 2007 by Routledge.

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Zimbabwe in Crisis

The International Response and the Space of Silence

Edited by Stephen Chan, Ranka Primorac

This book covers not only the political situation in Zimbabwe, but its international context and those areas of privation, exclusion and silence within the country...

Published November 30th 2006 by Routledge.

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African Literature, Animism and Politics

By Caroline Rooney

This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of the African discourse of consciousness and its far-reaching analyses of...

Published September 1st 2006 by Routledge.

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Magical Realism in West African Fiction

By Brenda Cooper

This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its West African pioneers: Syl Cheney-Coker...

Published February 19th 2004 by Routledge.

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Encyclopedia of African Literature

Edited by Simon Gikandi

The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia...

Published November 28th 2002 by Routledge.

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Trances, Dances and Vociferations

Agency and Resistance in Africana Women's Narratives

By Nada Elia

Trances, Dances and Vociferations provides a compelling feminist analysis of gender politics in the works of four major Africana women writers: Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff,...

Published December 8th 2000 by Routledge.

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World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

Africa

Edited by Ousmane Diakhate, Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh, Don Rubin

Now available in paperback for the first time this edition of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre series examines theatrical developments in Africa since 1945....

Published September 14th 2000 by Routledge.

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Postcolonial African Writers

A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Edited by Siga Fatima Jagne, Pushpa Naidu Parekh

This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents...

Published July 1st 1998 by Routledge.

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African Identities

Pan-Africanisms and Black Identities

By Kadiatu Kanneh

This fascinating and well researched study explores the meaning generated by `Africa' and `Blackness' throughout the century.
Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents,...

Published April 9th 1998 by Routledge.

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World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

Volume 3: Africa

Edited by Ousmane Diakhate, Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh, Don Rubin

Volume Three in this series carries on from the highly acclaimed volumes on Europe and on the Americas. Focusing on non-Arabic Africa, and with contributions...

Published June 12th 1997 by Routledge.

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