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Life Under the Baobab Tree

Life Under the Baobab Tree

Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age

Edited by Kenneth N. Ngwa, Aliou Cissé Niang and Arthur Pressley

Afterword by Catherine Keller

Contributor(s): Shola Adegbite, Desmond D. Coleman, Salim Faraji, Rachel E. Harding, Minenhle Nomalungelo Khumalo, Althea Spencer Miller, Hugh R. Page Jr., A. Paige Rawson, Nimi Wariboko, Sharon Kimberly Williams and An Yountae

Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously written by early and later diaspora people of African descent....

ISBN: 9781531502973

The Work of Repair

The Work of Repair

Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa

Thomas Cousins

The Work of Repair is an ethnographic examination of the intimate relationships between laborers in the timber plantations of postapartheid South Africa, in the wake of the HIV crisis and the contentious politics of nutrition. It explores how capacity is augmented as the wounds of history are embodied and modulated.

ISBN: 9781531503543

Africans in Harlem

Africans in Harlem

An Untold New York Story

Boukary Sawadogo

The untold story of African-born migrants and their vibrant African influence in Harlem.From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Harlem was the intellectual and cultural center...

ISBN: 9780823299126

The Politics of the Near

The Politics of the Near

On the Edges of Protest in South Africa

Jérôme Tournadre

Translated by Andrew Brown

The Politics of the Near offers a novel approach to social unrest in post-apartheid South Africa. Keeping the noise of demonstrations, barricades, and clashes with the police at a distance,...

ISBN: 9780823299959

The Disposition of Nature

The Disposition of Nature

Environmental Crisis and World Literature

Jennifer Wenzel

This book examines how literature shapes understandings of nature and can therefore be both complicit in environmental harm and part of an environmentalist practice. The book devotes particular attention to formerly colonized regions (e.g. Africa and South Asia) in order to understand the relationships among imperialism, globalization, and environmental injustice.

ISBN: 9780823286775

Morality at the Margins

Morality at the Margins

Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya

Sarah Hillewaert

What does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim? Documenting everyday life in Lamu (Kenya), this book explores the mundane practices of behavior and speech that create moral personhood. In elaborating everyday practices of Islamic pluralism, the book shows how Muslim societies critically engage with change while sustaining a sense of integrity and morality.

ISBN: 9780823286508

Postcolonial Bergson

Postcolonial Bergson

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Translated by Lindsay Turner

At a moment of renewed interest in Bergson’s philosophy, this book, by a major figure in both French and African philosophy, gives an expanded idea of the political ramifications of Bergson’s thought in a postcolonial context.

ISBN: 9780823285822

The Tongue-Tied Imagination

The Tongue-Tied Imagination

Decolonizing Literary Modernity in Senegal

Tobias Warner

Winner, 2021 African Literature Association First Book AwardShould a writer work in a former colonial language or in a vernacular? The language question was one of the great, intractable...

ISBN: 9780823284290

Xamissa

Henk Rossouw

Xamissa is a book-length poem that sounds out the city of Cape Town in a joyful elegy for the city of alternate takes. Xamissa adapts the mythical name for the springs and streams running...

ISBN: 9780823281107

The Global South Atlantic

The Global South Atlantic

Edited by Kerry Bystrom and Joseph R. Slaughter

Contributor(s): Luis Felipe Alencastro, Jaime Hanneken, Jason Frydman, Isabel Hofmeyr, Anne-Garland Mahler, Kerry Bystrom, Oscar Hemer, Christina Civantos, Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, Lanie Millar, Luis Madureira, Maja Horn and Waïl Hassan

Not only were more African slaves transported to South America than to North, but overlapping imperialisms and shared resistance to them have linked Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean for over...

ISBN: 9780823277889

The People's Right to the Novel

The People's Right to the Novel

War Fiction in the Postcolony

Eleni Coundouriotis

This study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa and argues for the genre’s distinct contribution to the literary culture of the continent. The war novel is a form of people’s history that participates in a political struggle for the rights of the dispossessed.

ISBN: 9780823262335

Law and Revolution in South Africa

Law and Revolution in South Africa

uBuntu, Dignity, and the Struggle for Constitutional Transformation

Drucilla Cornell

The relation between law and revolution is one of the most pressing questions of our time. As one country after another has faced the challenge that comes with the revolutionary overthrow of past...

ISBN: 9780823257584

Drawing the Line

Drawing the Line

Toward an Aesthetics of Transitional Justice

Carrol Clarkson

Drawing the Line examines the ways in which cultural, political, and legal lines are imagined, drawn, crossed, erased, and redrawn in post-apartheid South Africa—through literary texts, artworks,...

ISBN: 9780823254163

The Dignity Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

The Dignity Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

Cases and Materials, Volumes I & II

Stu Woolman, Sam Fuller, Jason Brickhill, Michael Bishop and Diana Dunbar

Edited by Drucilla Cornell

Since the Second World War, dignity has increasingly been recognized as an important moral and legal value. Although important examples of dignity-based arguments can be found in western European...

ISBN: 9780823250080

War in Worcester

War in Worcester

Youth and the Apartheid State

Pamela Reynolds

War in Worcester explores the experiences of the young in taking a stand against the apartheid regime in the 1980s at the height of the struggle for freedom. It combines an analysis of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s process and findings with a close ethnographic study in a small town. Issues including tactics, pain, betrayal and ethics are examined from the point of view of young activists and the forms of documentation of conflict used by the Commission are critiqued.

ISBN: 9780823243105

uBuntu and the Law

uBuntu and the Law

African Ideals and Postapartheid Jurisprudence

Edited by Drucilla Cornell and Nyoko Muvangua

This book brings together the uBuntu jurisprudence of South Africa, as well as the most cutting-edge critical essays about South African jurisprudence on uBuntu. Can indigenous values be rendered compatible with a modern legal system? This book raises some of the most pressing questions in cultural, political, and legal theory.

ISBN: 9780823233823

Apocalyptic Futures

Apocalyptic Futures

Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee

Russell Samolsky

In this book, the author argues that certain modern literary texts have apocalyptic futures. Rather than claim that great writers have clairvoyant powers, he examines the ways in which a text incorporates...

ISBN: 9780823234806

Narratives of Catastrophe

Narratives of Catastrophe

Boris Diop, ben Jelloun, Khatibi

Nasrin Qader

Narratives of Catastrophe tells the story of the relationship between catastrophe, in the senses of "down turn" and "break," and narration as "recounting" in the senses suggested by the French term...

ISBN: 9780823230488