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ISBN: 9780415297622 - Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture
Toorawa, Shawkat M

ISBN10: 9780203324530  ISBN13: 9780203324530
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
Toorawa re-evaluates the literary history and landscape of  third to ninth century Baghdad by demonstrating and emphasizing the significance of the important transition from a predominantly oral-aural culture to an increasingly literate... More

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ISBN: 9780199796373 - State of Peril State of Peril
Graham, Lucy Valerie

ISBN10: 9780199796502  ISBN13: 9780199796502
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Electronic Book

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ISBN: 9780415340618 - Magical Realism in West African Fiction Magical Realism in West African Fiction
Cooper, Brenda

ISBN10: 9780203451397  ISBN13: 9780203451397
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its West African pioneers: Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Ben Okri of Nigeria and Kojo Laing of Ghana. More

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ISBN: 9780203307090 - Contemporary Arab Women Writers Contemporary Arab Women Writers
Valassopoulos, Anastasia

ISBN10: 9780203307090  ISBN13: 9780203307090
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
This book engages with contemporary Arab women writers from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Algeria. In spite of Edward Said's groundbreaking reappraisal of the uneven relationship between the West and the Arab world in Orientalism, there has been... More

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ISBN: 9780415958189 - Literature and Development in North Africa Literature and Development in North Africa
Giovannucci, Perri

ISBN10: 9780203928080  ISBN13: 9780203928080
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
The book examines how modern global development largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the "e;developing"e; nations of the East. The practices of development have mostly led not... More

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ISBN: 9780521110730 - Wole Soyinka Wole Soyinka
Jeyifo, Biodun

ISBN10: 9780511059056  ISBN13: 9780511059056
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Biodun Jeyifo examines the connections between the innovative and influential writings of Wole Soyinka and his radical political activism. Jeyifo carries out detailed analyses of Soyinka's most ambitious works, relating them to the controversies... More

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ISBN: 9780415394956 - Oral and the Written in Early Islam Oral and the Written in Early Islam
Montgomery, James E ; Schoeler, Gregor

ISBN10: 9780203965313  ISBN13: 9780203965313
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
Made up of a number of seminal articles that are translated for the first time in English, this prestigious book from Gregor Schoeler gives a reasoned, informed and comprehensive overflow of how the written and the spoken interacted... More

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ISBN: 9780415396448 - Nationalism, Islam and World Literature Nationalism, Islam and World Literature
Omri, Mohamed-Salah

ISBN10: 9780203965283  ISBN13: 9780203965283
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
The writer and politician Mahmud al-Mis'adi is a figure of prime importance in the development of North African literature and cultural politics since the last war. This fascinating book covers both his essays and fiction, written between the... More

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ISBN: 9780195086188 - African Imagination African Imagination
Irele, F Abiola

ISBN10: 9780195358810  ISBN13: 9780195358810
Publisher: Oxford University Press, UK
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ISBN: 9780312299316 - America in An Arab Mirror America in An Arab Mirror

ISBN10: 9780312299316  ISBN13: 9780312299316
Publisher: Palgrave Trade
Format: Electronic Book