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Literature, languages and the arts

African and African diaspora literature, criticism, languages, theatre and art.

13 items

Library ResourceAchebe’s Things Fall ApartOde Ogede’s guide to Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel Things Fall Apart, which tells of life in south-eastern Nigeria before colonial rule and…
Library ResourceAfrican-American LiteratureAn anthology of African American literature that opens with Toni Morrison’s declaration that Black writers are “the subjects of our own narratives”.
Library ResourceAfrican Drama and PerformanceEssays on African theatre and performance, edited by John Conteh-Morgan and Tejumola Olaniyan, written at a time of fast-growing critical interest in…
Library ResourceAfrican IdentitiesKadiatu Kanneh explores the meanings history has given to “Africa” and “Blackness”, using literature, autobiography, ethnography and historical documents.
Library ResourceAfrican Languages in a Digital AgeDon Osborn looks at bringing computers, the internet and their content into the many languages Africans speak, a question that grows as…
Library ResourceAfrican Literature Animism and PoliticsCaroline Rooney asks how “inventions of Africa” differ from inventions of the Orient, and questions writing that has repeatedly cast doubt on…
Library ResourceAfrican Literature as Political PhilosophyM.S.C. Okolo reads African literature as political philosophy, starting from the closeness of the two disciplines: both aim to raise social consciousness…
Library ResourceAmericanahChimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2013 novel about Ifemelu, a young Nigerian woman who goes to the United States for university, following her life…
Library ResourceArt of Oceania, Africa and the Americas from the Museum of Primitive ArtThe catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 1969 exhibition of works from the Museum of Primitive Art, with its African section…
Library ResourceBody, Sexuality and GenderThe opening volume of the series Versions and Subversions in African Literatures, which sets out to leave old debates behind and open…
Library ResourceContemporary African Literature and the Politics of GenderFlorence Stratton places African women writers at the heart of African literature, aiming for a fuller definition of the contemporary African literary…
Library ResourceContemporary African Literature in EnglishMadhu Krishnan studies contemporary African literature in English, starting from Binyavanga Wainaina’s mocking essay “How to Write About Africa” and the clichés…
Library ResourceEncyclopedia of African LiteratureSimon Gikandi’s encyclopedia of African literature in its oral and written forms, rooted in the continent’s long traditions of storytelling and performance.

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