Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kerry manzo”
Skip side bar filters

  • Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature

    by Kerry Manzo ...
    Series series African Humanities and the Arts
    Queer Contiguities of Nigerian Literature explores how normative ideas of sex and gender have shaped the development of Nigerian literature. Tracing this influence from the rise of mid-twentieth-century modernist writing to the contemporary appearance of LGBTQIA literature, Kerry Manzo presents a new framework for understanding Nigerian literature, one in which sexuality and gender—or more ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • ALT 36: Queer Theory in Film & Fiction

    African Literature Today

    by Ernest N. Emenyonu, Ernest N. Emenyonu, Ives S. Loukson, John C. Hawley, John C. Hawley, John C. Hawley, Kerry Manzo, Lizzy Attree, M'Bha Kamara, Naminata Diabate, Ndubuisi Osuagwu0, Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri1, Pede Hollist2, Robert LaRue3, Shola Adenekan4, Simone James Alexander5, Stella Onome Omonigho6, Unoma Azuah7, Asuncion Aragon8, Chioma Toni-Duruaku9, Edgar Fred Nabutanyi0, Grant Andrews1, Isidore Diala2 ...
    Debates on the future of the African continent and the role of gender identities in these visions are increasingly present in literary criticism forums as African writers become bolder in exploring the challenges they face and celebrating gender diversity in the writing of short stories, novels, poetry, plays and films. Controversies over the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Death of a Discipline

    by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel

    Edited by Ato Quayson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Reflecting the development of postcolonial literary studies into a significant and intellectually vibrant field, this Companion explores genres and theoretical movements such as magical realism, crime fiction, ecocriticism, and gender and sexuality. Written by ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Women Writers of the New African Diaspora

    Transnational Negotiations and Female Agency

    by Pauline Ada Uwakweh ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Africa
    This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers, Yaa Gyasi, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Adichie, Imbole Mbue, NoViolet Bulawayo, Aminatta Forna, Taiye Selasi, and Leila Aboulela, and positions them as chroniclers of African immigrant experiences ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Sexual Diversity in Africa

    Politics, Theory, and Citizenship

    by S.N. Nyeck, Marc Epprecht ...
    How does one address homophobia without threatening majority rule democracy and freedoms of speech and faith? How does one "Africanize" sexuality research, empirically and theoretically, in an environment that is not necessarily welcoming to African scholars?In Sexual Diversity in Africa, contributors critically engage with current debates about sexuality and gender identity, as well as with ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A House of Prayer for All People

    Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church

    by David K. Seitz ...
    Perhaps an unlikely subject for an ethnographic case study, the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto in Canada is a large predominantly LGBT church with a robust, and at times fraught, history of advocacy. While the church is often riddled with fault lines and contradictions, its queer and faith-based emphasis on shared vulnerability leads it to engage in radical solidarity with asylum-seekers ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination

    We, Too, Are Humans

    by Chielozona Eze ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Africa
    Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa.Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s robust achievements in human rights, this book argues that the notion of restorative justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory democracy and ... Read more

    Free

  • Stories of women

    Gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation

    by Elleke Boehmer ...
    Why is the nation in a postcolonial world so often seen as a motherland? Stories of women is a pathbreaking study of the perenially fascinating relationship between foundational fictions of the nation and gendered images. The book focuses critically on postcolonial spaces ranging from West Africa to India. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Who's Afraid of Gender?

    by Judith Butler ...
    National Bestseller. Named a Best Book of 2024 by NPR, Harper’s Bazaar, W, and Esquire.“A profoundly urgent intervention.” —Naomi Klein“A timely must-read for anyone actively invested in reimagining collective futurity.” —Claudia RankineFrom a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world.Judith Butl... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $62.99 USD

  • Go the Way Your Blood Beats

    On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire

    by Michael Amherst ...
    Using bisexuality as a frame, Go the Way Your Blood Beats questions the division of sexuality into straight and gay, in a timely exploration of the complex histories and psychologies of human desire.A challenge to the idea that sexuality can either ever be fully known or neatly categorised, it is a meditation on desire’s unknowability. Interwoven with anonymous addresses to past loves - the sex of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD