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This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment.

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The book argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemological claims but on how feelings and temperaments affect the way we approach the Middle Ages. -- .

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This bibliography includes entries for nearly 700 books written in English by both African and Western authors and published between 1873 and 1994. The books are carefully selected to give fair representation to the various regions and countries of Africa, literary genres, prominent authors and books, and literary phases;

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Entries for 78 African American writers active between 1745 and 1945 provide biographical information, discussions of major works and themes, summaries of criticism, and primary and secondary bibliographical citations.

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There is growing popular and scholarly interest in autobiography, along with increasing regard for the achievements of African American writers. Together, the entries provide a detailed portrait of the African American autobiographical tradition from the 18th century to the present.

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Casts African American autobiographies as a form of the epic, in which learning creates a passage to freedom.

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A collection of first hand narratives and oral histories portraying the African American experience from slavery through emancipation and into the 20th century.

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This biocritical dictionary covers 46 poets from more than two centuries of African American literary history. The poets are situated within their historical and literary context, and for each a biographical sketch is given, with information on the poet's personal history and education.

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Presents a comprehensive overview of African writing in the Francophone literary world. This title explores the work of important classic and contemporary African writers from the 1950s onwards. It provides a variety of theoretically sophisticated analyses of Francophone writing.

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Presents a comprehensive overview of African writing in the Francophone literary world. This title explores the work of important classic and contemporary African writers from the 1950s onwards. It provides a variety of theoretically sophisticated analyses of Francophone writing.

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As non-African writers have created images of Africa that suit their own needs, African writers have countered these images with African landscapes that emphasize the landmarks and horizons that are significant for Africans.

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From a forest of controversies and opinions by African and non-African critics and writers, Bishop has been able to elicit strong paradigms of critical and theoretical evaluation of African literature by Africans themselves, and therein lies the abiding merit of this book.

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"A consideration of the theoretical, conceptual, and material connections between African literatures and "the world.""--

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"A consideration of the theoretical, conceptual, and material connections between African literatures and "the world.""--

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African pasts examines African literatures in English since the end of colonialism, investigating how they represent African history through the twin matrices of memory and trauma. -- .

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Demonstrating that Africa has become a popular setting for American novels written since World War II, this text examines how these works use African settings, and reassesses the traditional views of Africa found in Anglo-American literature.

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This book examines representations of blacks in British literature to illuminate how society viewed blacks during the eighteenth century.

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Traces the development of Afro-Cubanism, a movement in Caribbean arts and letters that stemmed from a rediscovery of the region's African heritage during the 1920s.

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Provides the poets' personal glimpses into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood. This book features translations of women poets living in Europe in the decades before and after World War II who chart the sheer ordinariness through which cataclysm is experienced, and by which life is cruelly shattered.

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Examines the works of contemporary German writers and the changing contexts of German literature from the 1960s to the 1970s.