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  • The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood

    Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures

    by Ayo A. Coly ...
    While the male-dominated Francophone African migrant literary tradition includes women writers, there is no study that attends to this subgroup of writers. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures pioneers the study of these writers as a category through an examination of three major women who exemplify the Francophone African female migrant ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Postcolonial Hauntologies

    African Women's Discourses of the Female Body

    by Ayo A. Coly ...
    Series series Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
    Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical thought and feminist theory have largely integrated the sexual female body into their disciplines, colonial representations of African women’s sexuality “haunt” contemporary postcolonial African ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Kaveena

    Translated by Bhakti Shringarpure, Sara C. Hanaburgh ...
    by Boubacar Boris Diop ...
    Series series Global African Voices
    This dark and suspenseful novel tells the story of a fictitious West African country caught in the grip of civil war. The dispassionate and deadpan narrator, Asante Kroma, is a former head of Secret Services and finds himself living with the corpse of the dictator, a man who once ruled his nation with an iron fist. Through a series of flashbacks and letters penned by the dictator, N'Zo Nikiema, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Gender and Sexuality in Senegalese Societies

    Critical Perspectives and Methods

    by Babacar M'Baye, Besi Brillian Muhonja, Ruth Evans, Ellen E. Foley, Juliana Friend, Cheikh Ibrahima Niang, Beth Packer, Amy Porter, Kadidia Sy0, Susan Telingator1, Sindiso Mnisi Weeks2, Ayo A. Coly3 ...
    Series series Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora
    Drawing from the diverse fields of postcolonial studies, literary studies, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, environmental studies, and development studies, among others, Gender and Sexuality in Senegalese Societies demonstrates the urgency and necessity of new research in gender and queer studies in and on Senegalese societies. By focusing on subjects that have thus far been ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Dialogues across Diasporas

    Women Writers, Scholars, and Activists of Africana and Latina Descent in Conversation

    by Selfa Chew, Yvette Christiansë, Angie Cruz, Kerry Doyle, Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, Ana-Maurine Lara, Olumide Popoola, Nelly Rosario, Kathleen Staudt, Meredith E. Abarca, Gabriela Durán Barraza, Sasha Pimentel Chacón, Myriam J. A. Chancy, Karma R. Chávez, Ayo Abiétou Coly, Veronica Savory McComb, Milena Simões Murta ...
    Series series Critical Africana Studies
    Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas. This book seeks to emphasize connections rather than divisions among different migratory ethnic communities via a reconfiguration of borders and ethnic identities. This collection of essays has three major goals: ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • The Years

    by Annie Ernaux ...
    Translated by Alison L. Strayer ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize**Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions ... Read more

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  • The Inheritance of Loss

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  • The Bad Girl

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    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
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  • Ilustrado

    by Miguel Syjuco ...
    Miguel Syjuco's debut novel, Ilustrado, opens with Crispin Salvador, lion of Philippine letters, dead in the Hudson River. His young student, Miguel, sets out to investigate the author's fatal departure from his encroaching obscurity and the suspicious disappearance of an unfinished manuscript—a work that had been planned to not just return the once-great author to fame, but to expose the ... Read more

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  • Letter to a Stranger

    Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us

    Edited by Colleen Kinder ...
    “Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness. Perfect for our times.”—Dani Shapiro, author of InheritanceSixty-five extraordinary writers grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter with a stranger leave such an eternal mark?When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to write a letter to a stranger about an unforgettable ... Read more

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