Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism
The Lions' Den: A Novel (coming soon, June 25, 2024)
A missing boy. A corrupt system. A case that could change everything…When young queer dancer Wilbess “Bessy” Mulenga is arrested by corrupt police, fresh-from-the-village rookie lawyer Grace Zulu takes up his cause in her first pro bono case. Presented with...
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Little Rot: A Novel (coming soon, June 18, 2024)
One weekend.The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city.A party that goes awry.A tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no one unscathed.Aima and Kalu are a longtime couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from the...
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Leyendas Yorubas por M. I. Ogumefu B. A. 1929 (Spanish Edition)
Pequeño libro que trata sobre algunas historias antiguas de los pueblos Yorubas, asi con esos datos tratar de entender el pensamiento, creencias y tradiciones de estos seres humanos en tiempos antiguos en tiempos pasados.
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The Laws and Customs of the Yoruba People
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
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The Laws and Customs of the Yoruba People
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
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Afterlives: A Novel
From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa.When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the...
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African Fundamentalism: A Literary and Cultural Anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance
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African Fundamentalism: A Literary and Cultural Anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance
This book presents a rich treasury of literary criticism. book reviews, poetry on the Black aesthetic and other cultural writings of Garvey's Harlem's Renaissance.
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Seraph on the Suwanee: A Novel
This novel of turn-of-the-century white “Florida Crackers” marks a daring departure for Zora Neale Hurston, the author famous for her complex accounts of Black culture and heritage. Full of insights into the nature of love, attraction, faith, and loyalty, Seraph on...
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
A New York Times Bestseller“One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.”...
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A Grammar of the Yoruba Language
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
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Requiem for Harlem (Mercy of a Rude Stream)
Completed just months before Henry Roth's death, the four-volume works of Mercy of a Rude Stream has become an epic American literary event. Here, in Requiem for Harlem, Roth tells the psychologically lacerating love story of Ira Stigman, a senior at City College,...
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CREATION STORY OF THE YORUBAS: Lyric Poems On Creation Story Of The Yorubas
Prologue The Yorubas are one of the ethnic groups of the people of South West of Nigeria. Yorubas are very rich in stories about religion and culture. Among these is the famous story of creation of earth by Oduduwa, and...
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The Kebra Nagast
The Kebra Negast is the holy book of Ethiopian Christians and Jamaican Rastafarians.
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At the Crossroads: Nigerian Travel Writing and Literary Culture in Yoruba and English (African Articulations, 7)
Shortlisted for the SAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2020'Honorable Mention' for the ALA First Book Award - Scholarship 2021A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing.Throughout the twentieth century, Nigerians have been writing about their travels within...
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Abbeokuta Or Sunrise Within The Tropics: An Outline Of The Origin And Progress Of The Yoruba Mission (1855) Hardcover
Abbeokuta or Sunrise Within the Tropics: An Outline of the Origin and Progress of the Yoruba Mission is a historical book written by Sarah Tucker in 1855. The book provides a detailed account of the establishment and development of the...
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Sephora: a Hebrew Tale: Descriptive of the Country of Palestine and of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Israelites; VOL. II (hardcover)
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of...
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Sephora: a Hebrew Tale: Descriptive of the Country of Palestine and of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Israelites; VOL. II (paperback)
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of...
$44.00
The British Israelites: Or Evidences Of Our Hebrew Origin, Gathered From History, Genealogy, Philology, And Heathen Customs (1885)- Paperback
""The British Israelites: Or Evidences Of Our Hebrew Origin, Gathered From History, Genealogy, Philology, And Heathen Customs"" is a book written by Henry William J. Senior in 1885. The book puts forth the theory that the British people are descended...
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The British Israelites: Or Evidences Of Our Hebrew Origin, Gathered From History, Genealogy, Philology, And Heathen Customs (1885) - Hardcover
""The British Israelites: Or Evidences Of Our Hebrew Origin, Gathered From History, Genealogy, Philology, And Heathen Customs"" is a book written by Henry William J. Senior in 1885. The book puts forth the theory that the British people are descended...
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The British Israelites: Or Evidences Of Our Hebrew Origin, Gathered From History, Genealogy, Philology, And Heathen Customs (1885)- Paperback
The British Israelites is a book written by Henry William J. Senior in 1885. The book explores the idea that the British people are descended from the ancient Hebrews. Senior gathers evidence from various sources including history, genealogy, philology, and...
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their stories are better than the bestsellers
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their stories are better than the bestsellers
This “celebration of the world of books” (Kirkus) is filled with true stories from the booksellers and librarians—the superheroes of reading—as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson. To be a bookseller or librarian… You have to play detective. Be...
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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.Utilizing the linguistic insights of her...
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A Small Silence
Prof is an ex-prisoner, activist and retired academic, who resolves to live a life of darkness after his release from prison. He holes up in his apartment, pushing away friends and family, and embraces his status as an urban legend...
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Highlife Giants: West African Dance Band Pioneers
Blending European and African-American styles with traditional African patterns, highlife music was the soundtrack of the independence era. Its influence still resonates today. Highlife Giants is an intimate portrait of the pioneering artistes of West Africa's music scene from the 1920s onwards....
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The Count of Monte Cristo: Book Two: Volumes III, IV & V
Embark on a spellbinding journey through the labyrinthine twists of revenge, love, and redemption in Alexandre Dumas' timeless saga, "The Count of Monte Cristo." This epic tale, divided into two volumes, introduces Edmond Dantès, a young sailor betrayed by envy...
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The Count of Monte Cristo: Book One: Volumes I & II
Embark on a spellbinding journey through the labyrinthine twists of revenge, love, and redemption in Alexandre Dumas' timeless saga, "The Count of Monte Cristo." This epic tale, divided into two volumes, introduces Edmond Dantès, a young sailor betrayed by envy...
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Pleasure of Thinking
A yet-untranslated essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s. Wang Xiaobo’s Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East...
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Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm
Starting with the viral poem “Crossing Half of China to Fuck You,” Yu Xiuhua’s raw collection in Fiona Sze-Lorrain's translation chronicles her life as a disabled, divorced, single mother in rural China.Yu Xiuhua was born with cerebral palsy in Hengdian...
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Writing Rumba: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry
Arising in the heyday of the music recently made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s that tried to convey a national and racial identity. Through...
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Writing Black Britain, 1948–98: An interdisciplinary anthology
The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period within a single volume.. Spanning half a century, this rich archive of representations includes...
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