African Short Stories, Paperback - ***

This anthology of 20 stories are from all over Africa, grouped geographically into four different sections - West, East, North and Southern Africa.

This anthology represents the talent and scope to be found in contemporary African writing. It contains both new and previously published stories b...

All by writers who spent their formative years in South Africa, this diverse range of short stories spans from the end of World War II when the Nat...

Reducere. A classic anthology of short stories by Black writers including James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright -- edited and with an introdu...

Reducere. In 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African...

Now in its 21st year, the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing is African's leading literary prize, and is awarded to a short story by an African wr...

New collection of short stories from acclaimed Oxford-based South African author that tracks lives across continents from the perspective of the so...

Reducere. DescriptionPaul Laurence Dunbar (1872 1906) overcame racism and poverty to become one of the best-known authors in America, and the first African A...

Land Without Thunder is Grace Ogot's first collection of short stories. Her live feeling for the macabre and the fatalistic is reminiscent of the t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Phyllis BennisNow entering its nineteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize, and...

Reducere. Considers such topics as Welty's uses of African American signifying in her short stories and her attention to public street performances interacti...

What are African religions? African Religions: A Very Short Introduction answers this question by examining primarily indigenous religious traditio...

Reducere. DescriptionLad and his Pals develops the five short vowels across 14 stories, with stories introducing and practicing each short vowel and the digr...

Reducere. Fiction. Short Stories. African & African American Studies. THESE BODIES, a collection of eleven stories by Morgan Christie, explores the complexit...

Reducere. Frank Yerby's first novel, The Foxes of Harrow, established him as a writer and launched a forty-nine-year career in which he published thirty-thre...

Reducere. Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the African American experience. Rejecting the prevailin...

Reducere. DescriptionAnansi The Trickster Spider - Volumes One and Two (16 short stories) The stories featured in this book introduce Anansi the Spider, a tr...

Jewels from Our Ancestors: A Book of African Proverbs is a short, illustrated literary collection of words of wisdom from the continent of Africa. ...

Reducere. The lived realities of young queer people in African contexts are not well documented. On the one hand, homophobic political discourse tends to por...

Reducere. The African continent, where life began, has gifted us with amazing legends who have stood up against injustice and inspired us to be brave. They a...

Reducere. "Original and arresting.... Jones's] stories will touch chords of empathy and recognition in all readers."--Washington Post "These 14 stories of Af...

Reducere. African futurism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction--Dumas's stories form a vivid, expansive portra...

Reducere. DescriptionPaul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African American writers to gain national notoriety, and in his very short career ...

Reducere. Evelyn Waugh's short fiction reveals in miniaturized perfection the elements that made him the greatest satirist of the twentieth century. The stor...

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Reducere. Dreams is a collection of beautifully written short stories based on author's dreams and life on a farm in South Africa. In Dreams depicts Olive Sc...

Reducere. The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from La...

Reducere. Muslims are neither new nor foreign to the United States. They have been a vital presence in North America since the 16th century. Muslims in Ameri...

Reducere. From Kate Chopin's turn-of-the-century Lousiana, to Gertrude Stein's war-time Paris, to Alice Walker's modern-day America, here are twenty-six shor...

Reducere. "Theroux is at his best when he tellspeople's] stories, happy and sad . . . Theroux's great mission had always been to transport us beyond that rea...

Reducere. Molefi Kete Asante has been named by his peers as one of the most influential contemporary scholars in America. In fact, Maulana Karenga said, "Mol...

Reducere. Just So Stories by Rudyard KiplingHelp your child share your most wonderful childhood memories and emotions with the Illustrated Children's Classic...

Reducere. Just So Stories by Rudyard KiplingHelp your child share your most wonderful childhood memories and emotions with the Illustrated Children's Classic...

Reducere. Just So Stories by Rudyard KiplingHelp your child share your most wonderful childhood memories and emotions with the Illustrated Children's Classic...

Reducere. Drawn from the lives of key Christians from the past and present, Heroes in Black History is an inspiring collection of forty-two exciting and educ...

Reducere. Maroon Medicine (1905) is a short story collection by E. A. Dodd. Published by the All Jamaica Library under the pseudonym E. Snod, Maroon Medicine...

DescriptionDrawing upon his experiences as the captain of a steamer on the Congo River, Joseph Conrad wrote "An Outpost of Progress, " a sharp crit...

Arriving in a strange city with limited English, waiting for the yellow school bus that reminds you of a lion's mouth on your first day of school, ...

Reducere. A collection of 13 award winning short stories concerning the true adventures of California Fish and Game Wardens and the wildlife-destroying outla...

Reducere. Dissent, disease, disaster. This genre-spanning anthology explores the many ways that we grow, adapt, and survive in the face of our ever-changing ...

Reducere. Five memorable short stories of collies and the lives they touch at Christmas, including: SEBASTIAN AND THE THREE KINGS - A compassionate collie te...

From "one of the greatest writers of our time" (Toni Morrison)--the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God--a collection of remarkabl...

Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps and introduced new motifs and narra...

Reducere. American Literary Cultures highlights literature written by regional authors--particularly those of Texas and the Southwest--and includes readings ...

Reducere. Longlisted for the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Debut African FictionWinner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize"Kintu is a masterpiece, an absolute ge...

Reducere. The companion volume to the bestselling Hemingway on Fishing. Ernest Hemingway's lifelong zeal for the hunting life is reflected in his masterful w...

One of the South's most revered writers, Ernest J. Gaines attracts both popular and academic audiences. Gaines's unique literary style, depiction o...

DescriptionThe Wild Kratts roar in this Step into Reading story about lions The Wild Kratts have a rumble with the king of the jungle when they try...

Reducere. The late Toni Morrison was the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. A powerful writer, she wove stories depicting ...

Reducere. Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet Laureate of the Negro Race (1914) is a pamphlet on American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Published nearly a decade after D...

Reducere. Light at the Edge of the Field keeps readers wanting more as a pitcher's girlfriend confronts her lover, not about his obsession with baseball but ...