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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON DAMBUDZO MARECHERA Edited by Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells
The Zimbabwean writer, Dambudzo Marechera, was regarded by some as mad and by others as a genius. Today, ten years after his death, his international reputation continues to grow not only as one of the most innovative writers Africa has produced but as an important voice in twentieth-century literature. This new book is the first collection of critical essays devoted entirely to Marechera. Flora Veit-Wild and Anthony Chennells have brought together the work of scholars from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Italy, Nigeria, Germany and England to show the complextiy and variety of responses which Marechera's writing evokes.
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON FEMI OSOFISAN Edited by Toyin Falola & Tunde Akinyemi
This anthology presents the most comprehensive and up to date critical works on the creative ingenuity of Femi Osofisan, one of the most prolific contemporary African writers. As shown in many of the essays in the volume, Osofisan’s creative works are highly original, innovative, ingenious, and pleasing. The contributors are a distinguished set of literary scholars who have drawn on years of experience and research to present remarkable ideas and original interpretations of the over fifty plays, four works of fiction, four collections of poetry, and two
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON FLORA NWAPA
Critical and Theoretical EssaysEdited by Marie Umeh
"[T]his volume presents a well-rounded portrayal of Flora Nwapa... as 'a complex figure and private, dignified individual'... [T]he discovery of the contributors... mirror[s] Flora Nwapa's dual commitment to international sisterhood and cultural nationalism." -Nina Mba
"I warmly commend Marie Umeh and Africa World Press... for putting out the most comprehensive and informative study ever published so far on Flora Nwapa. ...[T]he ideas in her writing are universal and timeless..." -Chukwuemeka Ike
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON KEN BUGUL
From Alternative Choices to Oppositional PracticesEdited by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier
"The present volume comprises fourteen chapters, an interview, testimonies, and an extensive works cited section. It touches on the wide range of feminist, postcolonial, and literary issues raised in her novels, issues addressed with a broad set of theoretical approaches. At the core of Bugul’s literary oeuvre, and of these essays, is an underlying ethical concern over the nature of the social fabric especially as it bears on the lives of women in Senegalese society. The collection represents a significant engagement with a major writer, one whose will to speak out has marked her generation.”
- Kenneth W. Harrow, Department of English, Michigan State University, Author of Less Than One and Double: A Feminist Reading of African Women’s Writing
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON MARIAMA Bâ Edited by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo
Inspired by Mariama Bâ's life and creative work, this volume celebrates her life and art. She is the winner of the first Noma Award for Publishing in Africa. Bâ's creative work is sparse, given her relatively short life, but compact, vivid, and dense. A long and complete bibliography of the vibrant critical reception of Bâ’s writings, put together by Renée Larrier, bears testimony to their status, depth, and canonical dimensions. There is practically no school curriculum in the United States that does not feature Bâ's texts either in the original French version or in the English translation.
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON MARYSE CONDÉ
A Writer of Her OwnEdited by Sarah Barbour and Gerise Herndon
Emerging Perspectives on Maryse Condé: A Writer of Her Own brings together for the first time a collection of essays in English about the novels of this contemporary Caribbean literary and cultural figure. The editors’ critical introduction situates Condé’s work within larger political and theoretical discussions about writing by women, writing from the African diaspora, and global literature.
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON NAWAL EL SAADAWI Edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu and Maureen N. Eke
This edited volume focuses on the writings of Nawal El Saadawi, generally acclaimed as ‘the Arab world’s leading feminist and iconoclast’. Saadawi’s concerns and advocacy for the struggles of women of the Arab world have progressively blossomed into a concern for the struggles of women all over the globe—the underprivileged, the subaltern, the disenfranchised, and all women suffering from the burdens of oppression, patriarchy, injustice, and dehumanization—attributable to feudalistic, religious, political, cultural, or economic systems. She aptly describes herself as a ‘socialist feminist.’
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EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON NIYI OSUNDARE
The People's PoetEdited by Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah
This book explores the emergence of the award-winning Niyi Osundare, a modern Nigerian poet. It examines how Osundare started in Ikere-Ekiti as a “farmer-born, peasant-bred” oral singer to becoming one of the world’s most celebrated African poets. Osundare has won the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize, the Commonwealth Poetry Award, the Japanese sponsored Noma Award, and the Folon-Nichols award. He also accepted a Honoris Causa of the prestigious Université de Toulouse le Mirial in France.
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