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  • Rethinking African Cultural Production

    by Eileen M. Julien, Olabode Ibironke, Moradewun Adejunmobi, Tejumola Olaniyan, Lamia Benyoussef, Safoi Babana-Hampton, Valérie K. Orlando, Mária Minich Brewer, Magali Compan ...
    Frieda Ekotto, Kenneth W. Harrow, and an international group of scholars set forth new understandings of the conditions of contemporary African cultural production in this forward-looking volume. Arguing that it is impossible to understand African cultural productions without knowledge of the structures of production, distribution, and reception that surround them, the essays grapple with the ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • African Literature in Transition: Volume 5

    Genres of African Literature, 1900–2020

    Edited by Moradewun Adejunmobi ...
    Series series African Literature in Transition
    This volume offers literary histories and analyses of a wide range of genres in African literature and verbal arts. It provides a holistic and accessible presentation of African literary history that incorporates different types of texts, different regions of the continent, and different languages (English, French, Swahili, Hausa). Both genres with a longer history and those with more recent ... Read more

    $110.39 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of African Literature

    Edited by Moradewun Adejunmobi, Carli Coetzee ...
    The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an expansion of critical approaches to African literature. The Routledge Handbook of African Literature is a one-stop publication bringing together studies of African literary texts that embody an array of newer approaches applied to a wide range of works. This includes frameworks derived from food studies, utopian studies, network theory, eco ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

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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 contains over 600 entries covering criticism and theory, African literature's development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers and their texts. While the greatest proportion of literary work in ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • The Migrant Image

    The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis

    by T. J. Demos ...
    In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture

    Edited by Grace A Musila ...
    This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate – are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • A History of African Popular Culture

    by Karin Barber ...
    Series Book 11 - New Approaches to African History
    Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Signal and Noise

    Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria

    by Brian Larkin ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point. Concentrating on the Muslim city of Kano in the ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives

    Edited by Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Vinh Nguyen ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Handbooks
    This Handbook presents a transnational and interdisciplinary study of refugee narratives, broadly defined. Interrogating who can be considered a refugee and what constitutes a narrative, the thirty-eight chapters included in this collection encompass a range of forcibly displaced subjects, a mix of geographical and historical contexts, and a variety of storytelling modalities. Analyzing novels, ... Read more

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  • Performance and Power

    by Jeffrey C. Alexander ...
    Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance can reorient our study of politics and society.Alexander develops a cultural pragmatics that shifts cultural sociology from texts to gestural meanings. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • 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 alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry includes a brief biography, a ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Postcolonial Cinema Studies

    Edited by Sandra Ponzanesi, Marguerite Waller ...
    This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic through which to address questions of postcolonial historiography, geography, subjectivity, and epistemology.Current circumstances of migration and ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD