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“dr jan wilm”

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  • The Slow Philosophy of J. M. Coetzee

    by Dr Jan Wilm ...
    In The Slow Philosophy of J.M. Coetzee Jan Wilm analyses Coetzee's singular aesthetic style which, he argues, provokes the reader to read his works slowly. The effected 'slow reading' is developed into a method specifically geared to analyzing Coetzee's singular oeuvre, and it is shown that his works productively decelerate the reading process only to dynamize the reader's reflexion in a way that ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

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    by Ruth Finnegan ...
    Series Book 1 - World Oral Literature Series
    Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa.This revised edition makes Finnegan’s ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new ... Read more

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  • Gods and Soldiers

    The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing

    Edited by Rob Spillman ...
    A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literatureComing at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality and urgency of African writing today. With stories from northern Arabic-speaking to southern Zulu-speaking writers, this collection conveys thirty different ways of approaching what it means ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys

    by Elaine Savory ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Since her death in 1979, Jean Rhys's reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpretations from radically different critical perspectives; formalism, feminism, and postcolonial studies among them. This Introduction offers a reliable and stimulating account of her life, work, contexts and critical reception. Her masterpiece, ... Read more

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  • Assia Djebar's L'Amour La Fantasia and the historiographic approach

    by Laura Aletti ...
    This essay will discuss Hutcheon's theory about “historiographic metafiction” in order to explain the meanings of Djebar's work; it will introduce Djebar's approach to history from a gender and post-colonized point of view; finally, issues related to language and history will be addressed. ... Read more

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  • Writing Out of All the Camps

    J.M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement

    by Laura Wright ...
    Series series Studies in Major Literary Authors
    Writing "Out of all the Camps": J. M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement is an interdisciplinary examination--combining ethical, postcolonial, performance, gender-based, and environmental theory--of the ways that 2003 Nobel Prize-winning South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, primarily through his voicing of a female subject position and his presentation of a voiceless subjectivity, the animal, ... Read more

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  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of Assia Djebar

    Edited by Anne Donadey ...
    Series Book 144 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    A significant and prolific francophone writer and filmmaker, Assia Djebar is celebrated for her experimental, multilingual prose and her nuanced, imaginative representations of Algeria. From her first novel, La soif (The Mischief), to her final book, Nulle part dans la maison de mon père ("No Place in My Father's House"), she offers a wealth of pedagogical and theoretical possibilities.Part 1, ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial Ecologies

    Literatures of the Environment

    Edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, George B. Handley ...
    The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia. Turning to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial ... Read more

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  • Close to the Sources

    Essays on Contemporary African Culture, Politics and Academy

    by Abebe Zegeye, Maurice Vambe ...
    Series series Routledge African Studies
    European and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality. This book explores the status and critical relationship between politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and publishing in the context of promoting Africa’s indigenous knowledge, and seeks to recover some of the sites where Africans continue to ... Read more

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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

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  • Animals and Desire in South African Fiction

    Biopolitics and the Resistance to Colonization

    by Jason D. Price ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book considers the political potential of affective experiences of desire as reflected in contemporary South African literature. Jason Price argues that definitions of desire deployed by capitalist and colonial culture maintain social inequality by managing relations to ensure a steady flow of capital and pleasure for the dominant classes, whereas affective encounters with animals reveal the ... Read more

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  • Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration

    Envisioning Language

    by Thomas Jay Lynn ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines vital intersections of narration, linguistic innovation, and political insight that distinguish Chinua Achebe’s fiction as well as his non-fiction commentaries. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of these intersections: Achebe’s narrative response to Western authors who have written on Africa, his integration of Igbo folklore, the political implications of writing ... Read more

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