Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Duke University Press Negative Liberties
Book SynopsisBringing two voices into the discussion - Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon - to examine the different ways in which their writings embody, engage, and critique the official narratives generated by US liberal ideology, the author revises important ideas in the debate over individualism and the political theory of liberalism.Trade Review“Negative Liberties combines historical, literary, cultural, and political interests as it includes a historical study and critique of ‘individualism,’ excellent literary chapters devoted to fresh readings of Thomas Pynchon and Toni Morrison, and a political examination of the relationship of liberty and slavery. Inspired by Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus Patell’s book is a thoughtful contribution to American Studies.”—Werner Sollors, Harvard University“Negative Liberties is a sophisticated study of the appeal of the ideology of individualism in the United States. It is a vast and widely considered topic, but Patell has something new to say about it. His unique contribution comes out of his understanding of the human reliance on storytelling and the creation of narratives. Ethical and deeply engaging, this book adds an important new dimension to ideological criticism in the United States.”—Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative FormTable of ContentsPreface One: Narrating Individualism Two: Idealizing Individualism Three: Unenlightened Enlightenment Four: Contemplating Community Conclusion: Beyond Individualism Notes Works Cited
£25.19
Duke University Press Transpacific Femininities
Book SynopsisShows how the complex interplay of feminism, nationalism, empire, and modernity helped shape conceptions of the transpacific FilipinaTrade Review“Cruz’s project has many strengths. . . . Transpacific Femininities provides a nuanced perspective to existing literature on women’s history, colonialism in the Pacific, Asian American studies, and transnational studies at large.” -- Joanne L. Rondilla * Journal of Asian Studies *"This book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars in Asian, American and Gender Studies, and across the disciplines of Sociology, Geography, History, and Anthropology. It is a rich historical account that does a lot of conceptual work with great subtlety. Transpacific Femininities is written to be widely accessible and could be easily used in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate classes." -- Geraldine Pratt * Pacific Affairs *“Cruz’s analysis is challenging and often subtle, for, as she maintains, the modern woman in the Philippines was not always simply westernized but was a blended cultural hybrid…Readers in the field of ethnic feminist literature will appreciate her annotations, her summaries of hard to find literary texts, and her discussion of the arguments of other scholars.” -- Frederick J. Augustyn * Journal of American Culture *“Transpacific Femininities re-frames and expands the boundaries of the study of race, gender, and empire in Philippine and Filipino American studies in a compelling transnational and global context. It is essential reading for students and scholars of Philippine, Asian American, and gender and women’s studies.” -- Catherine Ceniza Choy * Journal of American Ethnic History *"A GOAT work of scholarship and criticism, with a staggeringly wide historical scope and a generous, approachable readability. Denise Cruz brings us from the colonial era to the Cold War, and gives us a much-needed feminist historicist approach to thinking about everything from national heroism, to class, colorism, and the ways in which the costs of war and empire are often borne on the bodies of women." -- Elaine Castillo * Electric Lit *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Transpacific Filipinas, Made and Remade 1 1. Cartographies of the Transpacific Filipina 31 2. Nationalism, Modernity, and Feminism's Haunted Intersections 67 3. Plotting a Transpacific Filipina's Destiny: Romances of Elite Exceptionalism 111 4. New Order Practicality and Guerrilla Domesticity: The Pacific War's Filipina 149 5. "Pointing to the Heart": Cold War Makings of the Transpacific Filipina 185 Epilogue. Transpacific Femininities, Multimedia Archives, and the Global Marketplace 219 Notes 237 Bibliography 261 Index 283
£25.19
University of Pittsburgh Press A New NoMansLand
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£48.19
University of Pittsburgh Press Refuge Pitt Poetry Series
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£18.52
University of Pittsburgh Press Asylum
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2000 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, a stunning debut collection revealing a mature complexity of craft and an original sophisticated vision.
£18.40
University of Pittsburgh Press Other South
Book SynopsisProvides an original perspective on Faulkner, examining his work in the transnational context of the ""Global South"". This work raises new questions as to the scope and attitude of Faulkner's project, positioning Faulkner's work as an inherent critique of colonialism and emphasizing a more specific conceptualization of coloniality.Trade ReviewOther South is a pathbreaking intervention into the field of Faulkner studies. Whereas Faulkner is customarily represented as a product of literary modernism, Aboul-Ela invokes the 'peripheralist aesthetics' fashioned within the Mariategui tradition to separate him from the Euro-American modernist tradition. By bringing other regions of the Global South into his analysis of U.S. Southern culture, Aboul-Ela raises important questions relating to the colonial economy and the geo-spatial inequalities that determined so much of Faulkner's vision. - Donald Pease, Dartmouth College ""A fascinating example of the attempts to dislodge the traditional North-South axis of analysis and theoretical authority in order to build a new literary canon. Other South establishes 'a commonality of Souths,' based upon the colonial and neocolonial experiences which shape the aesthetic characteristics of narratives in different traditions. It also produces a critique of 'institutional theory' by ascertaining the methodological and epistemological expediency of a theoretical corpus originated in Latin America that Aboul-Ela calls 'the Mariategui tradition.' Aboul-Ela uses this critique to analyze a literary corpus of the 'Global South,' which includes narratives by William Faulkner as well as texts from Latin America, the Arab World, and Southern India. A very bold move indeed, because it asserts the epistemological advantage of Third World theory for the understanding of the literatures and cultures of colonial and neocolonial societies."" - Abril Trigo, Ohio State University
£42.63
University of Pittsburgh Press Literature and Subjection
£38.95
University of Pittsburgh Press Rethinking Community from Peru
£34.50
University of Pittsburgh Press Literate Zeal
Book SynopsisNew in Paper Janet Carey Eldred examines the rise of women magazine editors during the mid-twentieth century and reveals their unheralded role in creating a literary aesthetic for the American public.
£27.50
University of Pittsburgh Press After Human Rights
Book SynopsisRosenberg explores Latin American artistic production concerned with the possibility of justice after the establishment, rise, and ebb of the human rights narrative around the turn of the last century.
£38.95
University of Pittsburgh Press AntiLiterature The Politics and Limits of Representation in Modern Brazil and Argentina Illuminations
Book SynopsisAnti-Literature articulates a rethinking of what is meant today by literature. Examining key Latin American forms of experimental writing from the 1920s to the present, Shellhorse reveals literature's power as a site for radical reflection and reaction to contemporary political and cultural conditions.
£42.63
University of Pittsburgh Press I Would Lie to You if I Could Interviews with Ten American Poets Pitt Poetry Series
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£21.80
University of Pittsburgh Press A New NoMansLand
£29.61
Fordham University Press Writing of the Formless
Book SynopsisThis book proposes the “formless” as a way of thinking through the impasses of contemporary politics. The writing of the formless, as it can be traced in the work of Lezama Lima and the Cuban Revolution, is the point of departure in thinking through the relationship between politics and time.Trade Review"Deep and dazzling. The Writing of the Formless dismantles or powerfully threatens the very basis of much of what today wants to present itself as 'properly leftist' thought but also the equally paralyzing liberal-democratic administration of things: both ideologies are anchored in disavowed understandings of temporality. This is a groundbreaking, extraordinary book that will mark a before and after in Latinamericanism." -- -Alberto Moreiras Texas A&M University
£75.65
Fordham University Press Religion Revolution and the End of Time Jose
Book SynopsisThis book proposes the formless as a way of thinking through the impasses of contemporary politics. The writing of the formless, as it can be traced in the work of Lezama Lima and the Cuban Revolution, is the point of departure in thinking through the relationship between politics and time.Trade Review"Deep and dazzling. The Writing of the Formless dismantles or powerfully threatens the very basis of much of what today wants to present itself as 'properly leftist' thought but also the equally paralyzing liberal-democratic administration of things: both ideologies are anchored in disavowed understandings of temporality. This is a groundbreaking, extraordinary book that will mark a before and after in Latinamericanism." -- -Alberto Moreiras Texas A&M University
£21.59
Fordham University Press Allied Encounters The Gendered Redemption of
Book SynopsisAnalyzes Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied-Italian encounter.Table of ContentsPreface | ix Introduction | 1 1 Redeeming Destination Italy: A Guide to the Occupation of Enemy Territory | 17 2 “Liberated” Rome beyond Redemption: Roberto Rossellini’s Paisà and Alfred Hayes’s All Thy Conquests and The Girl on the Via Flaminia | 42 3 Happily Ever after Redemption: Luciana Peverelli’s “True” Romance Novels of Occupied Rome | 66 4 A Queer Redemption: John Horne Burns’s The Gallery | 91 5 Sleights of Hand, Black Skin, and the Redemption of Curzio Malaparte’s La pelle | 111 6 The Redemption of Saint Paul: Norman Lewis’s Naples ’44 | 132 Epilogue | 153 Acknowledgments | 163 Notes | 167 Works Cited | 213 Index | 231
£27.90
Fordham University Press Allied Encounters The Gendered Redemption of
Book SynopsisAnalyzes Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied-Italian encounter.Table of ContentsPreface | ix Introduction | 1 1 Redeeming Destination Italy: A Guide to the Occupation of Enemy Territory | 17 2 “Liberated” Rome beyond Redemption: Roberto Rossellini’s Paisà and Alfred Hayes’s All Thy Conquests and The Girl on the Via Flaminia | 42 3 Happily Ever after Redemption: Luciana Peverelli’s “True” Romance Novels of Occupied Rome | 66 4 A Queer Redemption: John Horne Burns’s The Gallery | 91 5 Sleights of Hand, Black Skin, and the Redemption of Curzio Malaparte’s La pelle | 111 6 The Redemption of Saint Paul: Norman Lewis’s Naples ’44 | 132 Epilogue | 153 Acknowledgments | 163 Notes | 167 Works Cited | 213 Index | 231
£92.70
Fordham University Press Cathay
Book SynopsisAn extensively annotated edition of Ezra Pound’s Chinese translations in Cathay (1915) and Lustra (1916), complete with manuscript sources and the Chinese originals and Pound’s article “Chinese Poetry. Filled out by essays by Haun Saussy, Christopher Bush, and Timothy Billings, this edition resituates Cathay as a project of poetry in circulation and a work of World Literature.
£24.69
University of Hawai'i Press Nuanua Pacific Writing in English since 1980
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University of Hawai'i Press Be a Woman Hayashi Fumiko and Modern Japanese Womens Literature
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£999.99
University of Hawai'i Press Lost Leaves Women Writers of Meiji Japan
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£21.56
University of Hawai'i Press Embracing the Firebird Yosano Akiko and the Rebirth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry
Book SynopsisA study of Yosano Akiko (1878-1942), famous post-classical woman poet of Japan. It follows Yosano from childhood to her twenties, as she freed herself from alienation and frustration and, to use her own words, ""danced out into the light"" of poetry and self-liberation.
£20.76
University of Hawai'i Press Night Is a Sharkskin Drum Talanoa Contemporary
Book SynopsisThis is a lyrical evocation of Hawaii by a Native poet whose ancestral land has been scarred by tourism, the American military and urbanization. Grounded in the ancient grandeur and beauty of Hawaii, this collection is a love song for a beloved homeland under assault.
£14.36
University of Hawai'i Press The Politics of Cultural Capital Chinas Quest for
Book SynopsisMaking use of research, including interviews with Chinese authors and critics, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of an issue that cuts to the heart of modern and contemporary Chinese thought and culture. It is for scholars of modern Chinese literature and culture, globalization, post-colonialism, and comparative and world literature.
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Selves in Question Interviews on Southern African Autobiography Writing Past Colonialism Writing Past Colonialism Paperback
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£20.76
University of Hawai'i Press Begin Here Reading Asian North American Autobiographies of Childhood Asian American Studies
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University of Hawai'i Press Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics Studies in Literature and Visual Culture
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University of Hawai'i Press Modanizumu Modernist Fiction from Japan 19131938
Book SynopsisRevisits such luminaries as Kawabata, Tanizaki, and the detective novelist Edogawa Ranpo. This title includes Funabashi Seiichi's Diving, Hagiwara Sukataro's Town of Cats, Ito Sei's Streets of Fiendish Ghosts, and Kawabata's film scenario Page of Madness.Trade ReviewBe prepared to rethink the nature of modern Japanese literature; or better still, simply read these often wondrous tales, some tall, some short, one after the other, and enjoy a remarkable, liberating moment in Japanese literary history. - J. Thomas Rimer, professor emeritus of Japanese literature, University of Pittsburgh ""This is a tour de force that gives readers a full and vivid picture of Japanese literature and its cultural milieu between 1913 and 1938, with smoothly rendered translations of influential works and a thought-provoking critique of how trends and movements during this period have been 'constructed' and 'reinvented' ever since. The book will also serve as an important reference for those studying twentieth-century Japanese literature."" - Steve Rabson, professor emeritus of Japanese, Brown University
£39.16
University of Hawai'i Press Writing Pregnancy in LowFertility Japan
Book SynopsisOffers a wide-ranging account of how women writers have made sense (and nonsense) of pregnancy in postwar Japan. In her fascinating study, Amanda C. Seaman introduces readers to a body of work notable for the wide range of genres employed by its authors, the many political, personal, and social concerns informing it, and the diverse creative approaches contained therein.
£46.50
University of Hawai'i Press China Mysteries
Book SynopsisExamines more than a hundred China mysteries - many describing and analysing social and economic changes at the centre of modern life in China - to provide a brief history of the genre and analyse the formulaic and original elements of the mysteries.
£51.00
University of Missouri Press The Novels of John Steinbeck A Critical Study
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University of Missouri Press Epic of the Dispossessed
Book SynopsisThis analysis of Walcott's ""Omeros"", argues that the poem is an innovative extension of the epic tradition. The book examines Walcott's writing career and traces his development of devices, themes, techniques and a narrative style essential to epic poetry.
£52.20
University of Missouri Press Autobiography LH14 Volume 14
Book SynopsisThis is the second volume of Langston Hughes's autobiography, charting the period of his life from age 29 to 35. It is filled with portraits of the people and places Hughes encountered during his travels around the world.
£52.20
University of Missouri Press The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter Perspectives on
Book SynopsisAn analysis of J. K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. It explores the Harry Potter series' literary ancestors and the moral and ethical dimensions of Harry's world, including objections to the series raised within some religious circles.Trade Review[Whited] has brought together an impressive array of scholarship to address the phenomenon that is Harry Potter.... From historical literary cousins to socio-political interpretations of the series' setting, from textual comparisons to fan club communities, the essays span a wide range of scholarly perspectives.... This is an exciting and substantial contribution to early scholarship about an important body of literary work.-Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books; ""Whited's collection of lively, well-written essays heightens appreciation of a classic in the making, addressing the international phenomenon of J. K. Rowling's books.""-Choice; ""The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter will be indispensable to those interested in the larger literary and sociological issues raised in and around these books.""-Mythprint; ""A highly scholarly and insightful text, offering new perceptions on beloved favorites, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter is a welcome addition to Literary Criticism reference collections and highly recommended for scholars and non-specialist general readers who enjoy J. K. Rowling's... canon of deftly written and increasingly influential fantasy.""-Midwest Book Review
£31.05
University of Missouri Press Mark Twain and Human Nature
Book SynopsisMark Twain once claimed that he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River, and he studied his fellow humans with the same devoted attention. In both his fiction and his nonfiction, he was disposed to dramatise how the human creature acts in a given environment - and to understand why.
£31.46
University of Missouri Press Bareface
Book SynopsisC. S. Lewis wanted to name his last novel “Bareface.” Now Doris T. Myers’s Bareface provides a welcome study of Lewis’s last, most profound, and most skillfully written novel, Till We Have Faces.
£36.86
University of Missouri Press The Philosopher and the Storyteller
Book SynopsisThroughout his philosophical career, Eric Voegelin had much to say about literature in both his published work and his private letters. The Philosopher and the Storyteller is the first book-length study of the literary dimensions of Voegelin’s philosophy—and the first to use his philosophy to read specific novels.Trade ReviewOne of the most perceptive and well-written works concerning Eric Voegelin's thought and its illuminative potential that this reader has had the pleasure to encounter. The book exploits the wide-ranging and penetrating insights of Voegelin pertinent to literary criticism and applies them in a coherent, masterly way."" - Glenn Hughes, author of Mystery and Myth in the Philosophy of Eric Voegelin
£28.45
University of Missouri Press From Dickinson to Dylan
Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which six literary modernists - Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan - have explored the human relationship to a transcendent mystery of meaning.Trade ReviewI consider this book to be absolutely brilliant. The authors it discusses are central to the modernist movement in literature, and Hughes offers a new perspective regarding what makes them important. His use of philosophy to deepen his literary analysis is especially valuable, and he uses it to make a compelling case for the centrality of the theme of transcendence to their works. He explains his thesis so clearly and illustrates it so well that I think even a reader averse to that theme would recognize its importance to these authors."—Eugene Webb, University of Washington, author of The Dark Dove: The Sacred and Secular in Modern Literature
£43.65
University of Missouri Press The Life of Mark Twain
Book SynopsisThe last installment of Scharnhorst's three-volume biography chronicles the life of Samuel Clemens between his family's extended trip to Europe in 1891 and his death in 1910. During this period, Clemens grapples with bankruptcy, the lecture circuit, loses two daughters and his wife, and writes some of his darkest, most critical works.
£46.50
University of Missouri Press Blue Song
Book SynopsisReveala how St Louis was absolutely indispensable to Tennessee Williams’ formation and development both as a person and artist. Unlike the prevailing scholarly narrative that suggests that Williams discovered himself in the deep South and New Orleans, Blue Song reveals that Williams remained emotionally tethered to St Louis.
£999.99
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones A Critical
Book SynopsisEven as Stephen Graham Jones generates a dizzying range of brilliant fiction, his work has remained strikingly absent from scholarly conversations about Native and western American literature. The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones offers the first collection of scholarship on Jones's ever-expanding oeuvre.
£999.99
University of New Mexico Press Imagining Persons Robert Duncans Lectures on
Book SynopsisRobert Duncan's nine lectures on Charles Olson, delivered intermittently from 1961 to 1983, explore the modernist literary background and influences of Olson's influential 1950 essay ""Projective Verse"". These transcribed talks pay tribute to Olson and expand our knowledge of Duncan's vision of modernist writing.Trade ReviewIn these lectures, Duncan explores the meaning and context of Olson's poetry and dynamic presence as poet and innovator, while also providing a broader representation of poetry and thought, ancient and modern, delivered with wit, intelligence, curiosity, and care. Essential reading for anyone interested in . . . the work of two of the most important poets of the postwar period."" - Peter O'Leary, author of Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan and the Poetry of Illness
£66.38
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Expanding Authorship Transformations in American
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of Peter Middleton's significant essays. In four sections - Sound, Communities, Collaboration, and Complexity - Middleton explores the internal divisions of lyric subjectivity as well as coauthorship, poetry networks, the creative role of editors and anthologists, and the outer limits of authorship revealed in long poems.
£53.55
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico A Description of Acquaintance
Book SynopsisGertrude Stein and Laura Riding enjoyed a fascinating if brief three-year friendship via correspondence between 1927 and 1930. In this volume, Logan Esdale and Jane Malcolm make the letters available to a larger audience for the first time.Trade ReviewThe Riding-Stein correspondence will be compelling reading for all who are interested in modernism."—Bob Perelman, author of The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History "This three-year correspondence sheds a brilliant new light on what is arguably one of the most intensely productive periods in both Riding's and Stein's careers."—Jennifer Ashton, editor of The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945
£47.60
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Ingenious Pleasures An Anthology of Punk Trash
Book SynopsisBy tracing the impulses of punk rock, trash film, and camp through poetry, Drew Gardner sheds light on a literary tendency that has been part of poetry’s DNA all along: uncovering the poetic values hidden in unpoetic things.Trade ReviewMore indispensable than Wilson the Volleyball in Tom Hanks's Castaway, no desert island should be without a copy of this uniquely ingenious and wildly pleasurable tome of treasures. This anthology charts a new history and a new way forward for experimental poetics."--Paul Stephens, author of absence of clutter: minimal writing as art and literature"An antidote, a strident reply, a raspberry even to all those who talk about poetry as a genre of comfort, as a solace, as a High Art with no room for absurdity, anger, and insult. Also a rollicking fun read."--Juliana Spahr, author of Well Then There Now
£22.46
James Currey ALT 14 African Literature Today
Book SynopsisThe re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism.The intention of the African Literature Today series [ALT] was, and still is, to encourage African writing in any language, whether of fiction, poetry or plays, and also to encourage its criticism. The critic's role, according toEldred Durosimi Jones in his 1968 Introduction to ALT 1, is to make the work accessible to a wider readership and to help establish literary standards for African literature: "The more permissive the publisher's policy is,the more necessary becomes the function of the critic." This book combines the first 4 volumes in the series, which had been published as single volumes between 1968 and 1970, then combined into one volume in 1972. It includes Bernth Lindfors' essay "The palm wine with which Achebe's words are eaten", plus early reviews of Elechi Amadi's The Concubine, Aimé Césaire's Une Saison au Congo, Flora Nwapa's Efuru and Ngugi's A Grainof Wheat.Table of ContentsEditorial Note to ALT - Eldred Jones The palm oil with which Achebe's words are eaten [Bernth Lindfors] Okigbo understood: A study of two poems [O.R. Dathorne] Cultural nationalism in modern African creative writing [E.N. Obeichina] 'Two hands a man has': The poetry of J.P. Clark [John Povey] Reviews of Aimé Césaire, James Ngugi, Olaudah Equiano, Elechi Amadi & Flora Nwapa; Bibliography [Hans Zell] Editorial Note to ALT 2 [Eldred D. Jones] James Ngugi as novelist [Ime Ikiddeh] Camara Laye: Idealist & mystic [A.C. Brench] Africa in Negro American poetry to 1929 [Michael Furay] Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters: reading notes [Eldred D. Jones] Reviews of David Rubadiri, Legson Kayira & Aimé Césaire; Letters; Bibliography [Hans Zell] Editorial Note to ALT 3 [Eldred D. Jones] Cyprian Ekwensi: An African popular novelist [Bernth Lindfors] The problem of language in African creative writing [B.I. Chukwukere] Mongo Beti's Mission to Kala: An interpretation [Eustace Palmer] Reviews of Ferdinand Oyono, John Munonye, Ayi Kwei Armah, Thérèse Baratte; Bibliography [Hans Zell] Editorial Note to ALT 4 [Eldred D. Jones] The traditional content of the plays of Wole Soyinka [Oyin Ogunba] Kwesi Brew: The poetry of statement & situation [Edwin Thumboo] An African sentimentalist: Camara Laye's The African Child [Paul Edwards & Kenneth Ramchand] Reviews of Yambo Ouologuem, Legson Kayira & Wole Soyinka; Bibliography [Hans Zell]
£23.74
James Currey ALT 9 Africa America the Caribbean African
Book SynopsisThe re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism.This volume, first published in 1978, looks at the fascinating literary links of the African diaspora in Harlem, Cuba and Haiti. Eldred Jones outlines in his Editorial the impact of the pride in connections with an African past as"one of the great transformations of modern times". The impact on writing moved in all directions and comparisons in this volume are made between Wole Soyinka and Leroi Jones, and between African and Irish Nationalist writing. Among the contributions are articles on the American background to Ayi Kwei Armah's Why Are We So Blest?, the African elements of Cuban literature, and an analysis of the early works and later crime fiction of Chester Himes.The Reviews include Kadiatu Sesay on Ekwensi and Okpwewho, Maryse Condé on Sembene Ousmane's Xala and Eustace Palmer on Meja Mwangi's Going Down River Road and Nuruddin Farah's Naked Needle.Table of ContentsEditorial - Eldred Jones The African heritage & the Harlem Renaissance: A re-evaluation [Lloyd W. Brown] Through the looking glass: African & Irish nationalist writing [C.L. Innes] Iconoclasts both: Wole Soyinka & Leroi Jones [Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi] The American background in Why Are We So Blest? [Robert Fraser] De origen africano, soy cubano: African elements in the literature of Cuba [Femi Ojo-Ade] Prophet of violence: Chester Himes [Willfried Feuser] The peasant novel in Haiti [J.M.Dash] Note on Senghor's Verse [Jeannette Kamara] Reviews include Kadiatu Sesay on Ekwensi and Okpwewho, Maryse Condé on Sembene Ousmane's Xala and Eustace Palmer on Meja Mwangi's Going Down River Road and Nuruddin Farah's Naked Needle
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James Currey ALT 13 Recent Trends in the Novel African
Book SynopsisThe re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete series available and provides the historical perspective of these early contributions to the literature and its criticism.First published in 1983, this volume looks at new developments in the African novel and also at those aspects of more established works that received less critical attention, such as writing from southern Africa, to which censorship and war restricted access. Eldred Jones in his Editorial also cites the "searing impact of the Nigerian Civil War, on the consciousness, not just on Nigerians, but on Africans as a whole". There are also contributions on Nigerian populist Kole Omotoso and Dambudzo Marechera's prize-winning House of Hunger. One of the most significant trends is the emergence of the powerful feminist talents of Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwapa, Bessie Head, Ama Ata Aidoo and Rebeka Njau. Articles by Eustace Palmer and Femi Ojo-Ade examine the depth and intensity with which some new novelists present the female point of view.Table of ContentsEditorial - Eldred Jones Myth & modern fiction: Armah's Two Thousand Seasons [Isidore Okpewho] Words pf iron, sentences of thunder: Soyinka's prose style [Niyi Osundare] The feminist point of view: Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood [Eustace Palmer] Identity crisis in the tragic novels of Isidore Okpewho [V.U. Ola] The revised Arrow of God [Bruce King] Colonial contact & language in Ferdinand Oyono's Houseboy Populist fiction: Omotoso's novels [F. Odun Balogun] Narrative method in the novels of Ngugi [Florence Stratton] Heroism in A Grain of Wheat [Eileen Julien] Mirror of reality: The novels of Meja Mwangi [Elizabeth Knight] Female writers, male critics [Femi Ojo-Ade] Acculturation & character portrayal in southern African novels [Norman C. Jones] New writing from Zimbabwe: Dambudzo Marechera's The House of Hunger [Mbulelo V. Mzamane] Reviews include: Ernest Emenyonu's The Rise of the Igbo Novel, Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset at Dawn and Stephen Gray's Caltrop's Desire
£23.74
