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Thirteen Cents: A Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Cape Town, between the picture postcard mountain and sea, has its own shadow: a place of dislocation and uncertainty, dependence and desperation, destruction and survival,... Læs mere
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The New Short Story Theories (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Aimed at writers, students, teachers, and critics interested in the short story as a genre, this rich collection of essays examines theoretical issues raised about this demanding literary form.
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The Madness of Vision: On Baroque Aesthetics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics, the author asserts the materiality of the body and world in her aesthetic theory.
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Kwame Nkrumah: The Father of African Nationalism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The first African statesman to achieve world recognition was Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who became president of the new Republic of Ghana in 1960. He campaigned ceaselessly for African solidarity and for the liberation of southern Africa from white settler rule.
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Authentically African: Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Together, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaire (IMNZ) in the Congo have defined and marketed Congolese art and culture.
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Julius Nyerere (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
With vision, hard-nosed judgment, and biting humor, Julius Nyerere confronted the challenges of nation building in modern Africa. Constructing Tanzania out of a controversial Cold War... Læs mere
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The Quick-Change Artist: Stories (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors.
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The Memory of Place: A Phenomenology of the Uncanny (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Drawing on influences as diverse as Merleau-Ponty, Freud, and J G Ballard, this book charts the memorial landscape that is written into the body and... Læs mere
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Coffee Is not Forever: A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Coffee Is Not Forever assesses the global spread of a dire existential threat—coffee rust—to a crop consumers take for granted. In... Læs mere
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The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890–1920 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Situating sleeping sickness control within African intellectual worlds and political dynamics, Webel prioritizes local... Læs mere
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Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A timely and original short biography reintroducing Fanon for a new generation of readers. Written with clarity and passion, Christopher J. Lee's account argues for the pragmatic idealism of Frantz Fanon and his continued importance today.
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Athens and Jerusalem (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
For more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem).
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