Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism
Love: A Novel
From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a spellbinding symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of Black women in a fading beach town.“A marvelous work, which enlarges our conception not only of love...
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Unabridged and uncensored with the cover from the first edition. SeaWolf Press Mark Twain books are carried by the Mark Twain Museum.SeaWolf Press is proud to offer another book in its Mark Twain 100th Anniversary Collection. Each book in the...
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Education of the Deprived. Anglophone Cameroon Literary Drama
Education of the Deprived is a perceptive socio-artistic examination of the key works of some major writers of Anglophone Cameroon literary drama today. For over two decades now socio-political developments in Cameroon, including the liberalization of the press, have led...
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Dynamism in African Languages and Literature: Towards Conceptualization of African Potentials
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Dynamism in African Languages and Literature: Towards Conceptualization of African Potentials
The book provides novel perspectives towards conceptualisation of African Potentials. It explores diverse and dynamic aspects of linguistic communications in Africa, ranging from convivial multilingual practices to literal and musical arts. The book reflects the diversity and ever-changing dynamism in...
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Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds
This book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African, ideologies that continue to shape how research is conceptualised, taught and practised in universities across Africa. Africans immersed in popular traditions of meaning-making are denied the right,...
$54.00
Detective Fiction and The African Scene. From The Whodunit? To The Whydunit?
From its very inception, detective fiction has enjoyed a great popularity among the young and the old, the learned and the not so learned. By some unfortunate stroke of irony, its respect has not kept pace with its enormous popularity....
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Cry my Beloved Africa. Essays on the Postcolonial Aura in Africa
Cry My Beloved Africa is a compendium of essays having as locus the continent of Africa. It comprises insightful observations on the politics, governmental systems, political economy, cultural practices, educational systems and natural phenomena that impact the lives of Africans....
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Critical Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Translating Camfranglais Literature
This study teases out the nexus between text typologies and translational paradigms. Camfranglais fictional works are not canonical texts; rather they find a niche in the corpus of peripheral ethnographic texts that require an interpretive approach to translational practice. Translators...
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The Cameroonian Novel of English Expression. An Introduction
Initially considered something of a black sheep within the Anglophone Cameroon literary genres, the Anglophone novel has gradually grown to carve out a respectable niche for itself in the Anglophone Cameroon sub-system, imposing itself in a way that makes it...
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Best "New" African Poets 2016 Anthology
Best New African Poets 2016 Anthology has 251 pieces from 131 poets and artists in 7 languages (English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, Shona, Yoruba and Kiswahili) from 24 African countries and Diasporas, with South African and Angolan poets dominating the list. We...
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Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe's Proverbs
This book is a timely addition to debates and explorations on the epistemological relevance of African proverbs, especially with growing calls for the decolonization of African curricula. The editors and contributors have chosen to reflect on the diverse ways of...
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The Absurd and the Cameroonian Tragedy at Decolonization: The Writings of Emmanuel Fru Doh
The Cameroons is in the grips of a perpetual tailspin. The confusion and lack of clarity in the nation threaten everyone's sanity. The Absurd and the Cameroonian Tragedy at Decolonization dissects these ills and tries to isolate what has caused...
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Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America
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Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America
What does it mean for a child to be a "reader" and how did American culture come to place such a high value on this identity? Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring...
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Shakespeare’s Missing Years
The ‘missing years’ of William Shakespeare is one of the major puzzles in the field of English Literature. He is by universal agreement the most important writer of the English language. Hundreds, if not thousands, of books of his works...
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We Were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene
The punk rock scene of the 1970s and ’80s in Southern California is widely acknowledged as one of the most vibrant, creative periods in all of rock and roll history. And while many books have covered the artists who contributed...
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Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World
“The finest modern introduction to [Wordsworth's] work, life and impact. It shows how and why ‘Wordsworth made a difference.’”—Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times Named a Favorite Book of 2020 by The Progressive Published in time for the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth’s birth, this is...
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DC Comics Super-Villains
Discover the origins, secrets, and nefarious schemes of the most powerful and corrupt villains in the DC Universe in this lavishly illustrated visual history, now available in paperback for the first time.As any comics fan knows, a Super Hero is...
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The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History
From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years.Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of...
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Shaped by the Waves
Cassie George is barely staying above water as she works to get her doctorate and raise her daughter. But she stubbornly keeps swimming to prove a few bad decisions haven't ruined her forever. Plus, it's all a great excuse to...
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A Separate Peace
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence...
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The Secret Life of Bees
The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Wings and The Book of LongingsSet in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of...
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I Do Not Sleep: A Novel
A story of betrayal, desire, and family drama, written by a giant of Egyptian popular fiction who shocked readers in the 1950s when this Lolita-esque novel first appeared and whose work has never before been available in EnglishSixteen-year-old Nadia had...
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The Help (Used)
Used- Good Condition - Cover may vary The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels...
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The Help (Used)
Used- Good Condition - Cover may vary The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels...
$16.00
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The H. G. Wells Collection: Deluxe 6-Book Hardcover Boxed Set (Arcturus Collector's Classics, 8)
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The H. G. Wells Collection: Deluxe 6-Book Hardcover Boxed Set (Arcturus Collector's Classics, 8)
This deluxe slipcased collection brings together the most celebrated works of H.G. Wells, presented in six clothbound volumes with beautiful embossed cover designs.H.G. Wells was a pioneer of the science fiction genre and a man of boundless imagination. Whether describing...
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The Golden Asse (Calla Editions)
Written in the second century A.D., this picaresque classic is the ancient world's only surviving complete novel. Concerning an inquisitive young man transformed into an ass by a magic potion, the narrative digresses into other tales of love, intrigue, and...
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Everything Yearned For: Manhae's Poems of Love and Longing
Manhae (1879-1944), or Han Yongun, was a Korean Buddhist (Son) monk during the era of Japanese colonial occupation (1910-1945). Manhae is a political and cultural hero in Korea, and his works are studied by college students and school children alike.Everything...
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The Classic H. P. Lovecraft Collection
his beautiful five-volume box set brings together H.P. Lovecraft's best-known works, enclosed hard-shell slipcase and presented with striking contemporary cover-designs.This collection includes everything from his early macabre stories to his tales of the dreamlands, and of course, his famous Cthulhu...
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The Call of the Wild
2017 Reprint of 1903 Edition. The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central...
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Beautyland: A Novel
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn’t feel at home on Earth.At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception...
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