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  • A Waltz

    by Lynda Chouiten, Ph.D, Mildred Mortimer ...
    Translated by Skyler Artes ...
    Series series CARAF Books
    A prize-winning novel from one of Algeria’s rising literary starsIn A Waltz, Lynda Chouiten depicts an irreverent and creative woman with an artistic temperament navigating the stiflingly conservative society in which she was raised. The narrative follows the path of Chahira, a seamstress from El Moudja—a fictional small coastal town in the Kabyle region of Algeria—to an international design ... Read more

    $23.29 USD

  • Women Fight, Women Write

    Texts on the Algerian War

    by Mildred Mortimer ...
    Today, the "fight to write"—the struggle to become the legitimate chronicler of one’s own story—is being waged and won by women across mediums and borders. But such battles of authorship extend well beyond a single cultural moment.In her gripping study of unsung female narratives of the Algerian War, Mildred Mortimer excavates and explores the role of women’s individual and collective memory in ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Arabic as a Secret Song

    by Leïla Sebbar, Mildred Mortimer ...
    Translated by Skyler Artes ...
    Series series CARAF Books
    The celebrated and highly versatile writer Leïla Sebbar was born in French colonial Algeria but has lived nearly her entire adult life in France, where she is recognized as a major voice on the penetrating effects of colonialism in contemporary society. The dramatic contrast between her past and present is the subject of the nine autobiographical essays collected in this volume. Written between ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Writing from the Hearth

    Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean

    by Mildred Mortimer ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    If space is important in the realm of imagination and a key theme in feminist theory, cross-cultural studies of social maps reveal that men and women's spatial experiences differ; women rarely control physical or social space directly. Positing the thesis that women's writing of Francophone Africa and the Caribbean offers important perspectives on the relationship of gender to space,Writing from ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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  • Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years

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  • In a Queer Time and Place

    Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

    by Judith Halberstam ...
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    In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms’especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are ... Read more

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  • Consenting victims

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  • Postcolonial Ecologies

    Literatures of the Environment

    Edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, George B. Handley ...
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    Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing

    by Donald E. Pease, Catherine A. John ...
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    Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or “third sight,” is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated through a rich oral tradition. This consciousness has served diasporic communities by creating ... Read more

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  • Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature

    Edited by Antonio D. Tillis ...
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    After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction to the literary worlds and perceptions of national culture and identity of authors from Spanish ... Read more

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  • Rewriting the Return to Africa

    Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers

    by Anne M. François ...
    Rewriting The Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the masculinist version by Négritude male writers from the 1930s to 1960s. Négritude, a cultural and literary movement, drew much of its strength from the idea ... Read more

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