In this highly exciting re-reading of the classic works of Haggard and Kipling, Gail Ching-Liang Low explores how the colonialised Other is a mirror reflecting the images of the coloniser - `a cultural cross-dressing.'
Social theory and social theorizing about Africa has largely ignored African literature. Writers are some of the continent’s finest social thinkers, p..
This book focuses on the cultural politics of magical realism, as exemplified in the fiction of Syl Cheney-Coker, Ben Okri and Kojo Laing and contextu..
This is the first comprehensive book-length study of gender politics in Ngugi wa Thiong's fiction. Brendon Nicholls argues that the mechanisms of gend..
Social theory and social theorizing about Africa has largely ignored African literature. Writers are some of the continent’s finest social thinkers, p..
Western criticism has largely failed to acknowledge the distinctiveness of African literary aesthetics. This book revises traditional literary canons ..
This book significantly expands the interdisciplinary discourse on African literature and cinema by exploring Africa’s under-visited carnivalesque poe..
This study examines what J.M. Coetzee's novels portray as the circumstances that contribute to the humiliation of the individual--namely the abuse of ..