The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership, Paperback - Mukoma Wa Ngugi

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s ...

Reducere. Written as a tribute to family, place, and bodily awareness, Mukoma Wa Ngugi's poems speak of love, war, violence, language, immigration, and exile...

Part mystery, part road novel, part philosophical enquiry, [this] is a dazzling journey to discover the meaning of music and its immense power over...

In the fictional East African Kwatee Republic of the 1990s, the dictatorship is about to fall, and the nation's exiles are preparing to return. One...

Reducere. "One of Africa's greatest writers" (San Francisco Chronicle) makes an impassioned plea for the resurrection of African language-and African culture...

Reissued for the first time to be part of the }Vintage Classics{ series. With richly enigmatic traditional African storytelling, this is widely con...

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Reducere. Traducere din limba engleza de Mihaela Negrila „Acesta este romanul african al secolului XX!” (Moses Isegawa) In perioada de dupa cucerirea indepen...

Reducere. O poveste despre mituri, revolutie si dragoste in Africa secolului XX, spusa de un gigant al literaturii kenyene Considerat capodopera lui Ngugi wa...

Reducere. Un roman al nevoii de speranta, al renasterii culturii africane Pe malurile unui rau salasluiesc doua comunitati Gikuyu ce traiesc dupa legile trad...

Reducere. Renowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near Nairobi...

DescriptionAcross the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional famil...

This critique of modern Kenya highlights the greed and capitalism prevalent in society. Despair drives Wariinga to leave Nairobi and seek refuge in...

As we stand at the brink of a terminal decline in the world's languages, and the rise of the hegemonic 'super-tongue', this is a personal and engag...

Reducere. Brilliant, darkly funny and utterly compelling, "The Handbook of Human Ownership" rips the curtains of propaganda from the pedestals of power, reve...

Un bob de grau - Ngugi wa Thiongo

Reducere. An unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favored for the Nobel Prize, was thrown in a Kenyan jail without ...

Petale de sange - Ngugi wa Thiongo

This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approac...

„Acesta este romanul african al secolului XX!” (Moses Isegawa)In perioada de dupa cucerirea independentei Kenyei, uciderea invaluita in mister a tr...

DescriptionScience has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, is as riveting a...

In Speaking of Race, Jennifer B. Delfino draws on three years of teaching experience and ethnographic research to examine language and racial ident...

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O poveste despre mituri, revolutie si dragoste in Africa secolului XX, spusa de un gigant al literaturii kenyene Considerat capodopera lui Ngugi wa...

The Last Giants explores the rapid decline of one of the world's favourite animals and the measures required to halt their extinction, through Levi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the major accomplishments of the Occupy movement has been to draw global attention to the massive disparity of income, wealth, an...

Reducere. DescriptionThe New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: it...

Fifty years after the term "meritocracy" was coined, this book asks where the idea of meritocracy has led.Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LtdNumber ...

What can a turn to humour offer International Relations? This book suggests that a focus on comic practice can illuminate the relationship between ...

Features a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, It demo...

Reducere. An enchanting novel of magical realism from a new voice, Kenyan author Wanjikũ Wa Ngũgĩ. Victoriana is a country ruled by an Emperor-for-Life who i...

Reducere. Speaking of Race explores the linguistic practices of African American children in an after school program in Washington, DC. Drawing on ethnograph...

DescriptionThe Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the field of language and identity from an ...

A collection of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's early and later political short stories. Published for the first time in }Vintage Classics{.

Offering an innovative account of Britain's counter-radicalisation policy, Prevent, this book provides a timely analysis of the UK's response to th...

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