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The Pan- Africanists, by Barrington Watson (Hardcover) $32.95

This book celebrates the lives of seventeen Black leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the liberation, unity and solidarity of Africa and African peoples throughout the world. Inspired by the "Pan-Africanists" portfolio, a series of...

SEA ISLAND ROOTS: African Presence in the Carolinas & Georgia, Edited by Mary A. Twining and Keith E. Baird $21.95

This collection of scholarly articles and personal reminiscences presents a well-informed and appreciative survey of the life and culture of the predominately African American population of the Sea Islands. Contents: Paul Salter, "Changing...

AFRICAN TEXTUALITIES: Texts, Pretexts and Contexts of African Literature, by Bernth Lindfors, HARDCOVER $79.95

African literary texts can be approached in a variety of ways. They may be examined in isolation as verbal artifacts that have a unique integrity. They may be studied in relation to other texts that preceded and followed them. Or they may be seen...

AFRICAN TEXTUALITIES: Texts, Pretexts and Contexts of African Literature, by Bernth Lindfors $21.95

African literary texts can be approached in a variety of ways. They may be examined in isolation as verbal artifacts that have a unique integrity. They may be studied in relation to other texts that preceded and followed them. Or they may be seen...

FLIGHT FROM THE DEVIL: Six Slave Narratives, Compiled and with an introduction by William Loren Katz $18.95

During the early 19th century some African American men and women who broke their chains also gave the abolitionist movement its strongest verbal weapons in the form of detailed autobiographies that exposed the slave system. Perceptive, dramatic and...

POPULAR LITERATURES IN AFRICA, by Bernth Lindfors $16.95

What is the written word that captivates the masses of African people? What are the stories and essays that most Africans read? Scholars usually pay little attention to the popular literature of Africa. At long last, however, one the best known...

THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT: And Other Essays in Biographical Criticism, by Bernth Lindfors $21.95

In an intellectual climate dominated by formalistic theoretical concerns, biographical criticism may seem an unfashionable mode of academic discourse, but it is sorely needed when writers and readers hail from different countries. A text may be so...

MARKETS OF MEMORIES: Between the Postcolonial and the Transnational, Maik Nwosu $29.95

Markets of Memories combines the analysis of rhetorical (and dialectical) structures and the exploration of contact zones (and their power dynamics). In effect, the book explores the movement of history, and its interpretive narratives, from two...