African category: 8440 books
Narratives of Catastrophe
Boris Diop, ben Jelloun, Khatibi
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Narratives of Catastrophe tells the story of the relationship between catastrophe, in the senses of "down turn" and "break," and narration as "recounting" in the senses suggested by the French term récit in selected texts by three leading writers from Africa.
Qader's...
by S D Amoako
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
West African cuisine has seen something of a growth in popularity in recent times. The simplicity of the recipes, freshness of ingredients and the immense pleasure to be gained from the end result are just a few of the reasons behind this.
Jollof rice is just one of the fantastic foods which...
A Taste of South Africa
Our 100 top recipes presented in one cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Thanks to the mix of African cooking with European and Asian influences, South Africans have long enjoyed a multi-cultural style of cooking that's also become popular in Europe. From Baba Ghanoush and Cape-Malay Bobotie with sultanas, to chicken-potjie and Koeksisters with sugar syrup - join us on a...
The Roots of African American Drama
An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
This volume rescues from obscurity thirteen plays by early African American writers.
Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration
Envisioning Language
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book examines vital intersections of narration, linguistic innovation, and political insight that distinguish Chinua Achebe’s fiction as well as his non-fiction commentaries. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of these intersections: Achebe’s narrative response to Western authors...
Wounds of the Spirit
Black Women, Violence, and Resistance Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
In Wounds of the Spirit, Traci West employs first person accounts-from slave narratives to contemporary interviews to Tina Turner's autobiography-to document a historical legacy of violence against black women in the United States. West, a black feminist Christian ethicist, situates spiritual matters...
by S. Gunne
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Exploring the relationship between space, place, and gendered violence as depicted in a range of South African writing, Gunne examines the social and political conditions of exceptionality during and after apartheid. Writers covered include: Hilda Bernstein, J.M. Coetzee, Achmat Dangor, Ruth First, Nadine Gordimer, and Antjie Krog.
by Caroline Rooney
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2004
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 a literature of animism. It will be of great interest to scholars in many fields including literary and critical theory, philosophy, anthropology, politics and psychoanalysis.
by Vorris L. Nunley
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Examines the barbershop as a rhetorical site in African American culture across genres, including fiction, film, poetry, and theater.
The Nation Writ Small
African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958–1988
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
In The Nation Writ Small, Susan Z. Andrade focuses on the work of Africa’s first post-independence generation of novelists, explaining why male writers came to be seen as the voice of Africa’s new nation-states, and why African women writers’ commentary on national politics was overlooked. Since...
From the Kitchen to the Parlor
Language and Becoming in African American Women's Hair Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
When is hair "just hair" and when is it not "just hair"? Documenting the politics of African American women's hair, this multi-sited linguistic ethnography explores everyday interaction in beauty parlors, Internet discussions, comedy clubs, and other contexts to illuminate how and why hair matters in African American women's day-to-day experiences.
African American Women with Incarcerated Mates
The Psychological and Social Impacts of Mass Imprisonment
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
After four decades of mass incarceration in the U.S., the disproportionate number of black men in prisons has contributed to an epidemic of black women struggling to support fragile families. Yet the literature is scant on how African American women are affected by the imprisonment of their partners....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
This book describes the contributions of twenty-two educators and events that have shaped the field of education, often receiving little to no public recognition, including: Edmonia Godelle Highgate, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Selena Sloan Butler, Alonzo Aristotle Crim, Sabbath Schools, and African American...
African Youth Languages
New Media, Performing Arts and Sociolinguistic Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This book showcases current research on language in new media, the performing arts and music in Africa, emphasising the role that youth play in language change and development. The authors demonstrate how the efforts of young people to throw off old colonial languages and create new local ones has...