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Female Genital Mutilation in African Literature

Tobe Levin and Augustine H. Asaah, editors
A thorough discussion and education on the subject of female circumcisionwhether driven by rage, empathy, or engagementis important. By focusing on creative writing as the site of discussion, this book provides a multifaceted education. A must read. NGUGI WA THIONGO An important collection on an important subject that some misguided cultural nationalists would rather keep wrapped under the silences and perversions of tradition.... It derives its freshness and power from its excavation of representations in the works of African and Diasporan writers.
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20% discount off three or more books! You will want to take advantage of our 20% discount on purchases of three or more titles. Just fill out the form at the back of this catalog. (Librarians: simply attach the order form to your purchase order.) Dont delaythis offer ends May 15, 2010! Examination Copies We will be glad to send you paperback examination copies (limit 3 per course) for $7.50 each including postage. Please submit your request on department letterhead and include the name and number of the course, its anticipated enrollment, and when it will be offered. Payment must be enclosed. Looking for a specific book? Cant find it in this catalog? To make space for our evergrowing list of new books, we had to leave out some of your old favorites. For information about books not in this catalog, visit www.rienner.com. Text-in-Time Created with professors and students in mind, our Text-in-Time print-on-demand program allows us to make out-of-stock and hardcover-only titles available for course use. Simply have your campus bookstore call us at 303-444-6684 to place a prepaid, nonreturnable order, and books will be delivered within 4 weeks.

This pioneering collection discusses representations of female genital mutilation as a theme in literary art. The contributorsboth scholars and activistsjoin together to analyze African and African American literature in the context of the debate between those who see FGM as a time-honored tradition and those who recognize it as an egregious human rights abuse. Tobe Levin is professor of English and womens studies at the University of Maryland University College Europe. Augustine H. Asaah is associate professor of modern languages at the University of Ghana, where he pioneered research into African feminist literature and gender-based violence in African fiction.
C ONTENTS : Assaults on Female Genitalia: Activists, Authors and the ArtsT. Levin. EMPATHIZERS. From Womens Rite to Human Rights Issue: Literary Explorations of Female Genital Excision since Facing Mount Kenya (1938)E. Bekers. Oppositional Approaches to FGM in African LiteratureS. Bishop. Going Home Again: Diaspora, FGM and Kinship in Warrior MarksT.L. Cage. Mother as a Verb: The Erotic, Audre Lorde and FGMJ. Browdy de Hernandez. ENRAGED. Female Genital Mutilation: Ambivalence, Indictment and Commitment in Sub-Saharan African FictionA.H. Asaah. The Anti-Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Novel in Public Education: An Example from Ghana A.V. Adams. What Is Wrong with Mariam? Gloria Naylors Infibulated JewT. Levin. Somali Womanhood: A Re-visioningM. Sarkis. ENGAGED. Excision and African Literature: An Activists Annotated Bibliographical Excursion P. Herzberger-Fofana. Whos Afraid of Female Sexuality?M. Mathai. Trnen im Sand/Desert Tears (Excerpts)N. Abdi and L.G. Linder. 2009/218 pages ISBN: 978-0-9555079-4-6
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The Rienner Anthology of African Literature

Anthonia C. Kalu, editor
A Herculean labor of dedication and love.... The incontestable value of this anthology is in its gathering together of, and making available, materials which show the range, richness and variety of the corpus.... Every undergraduate library in the country should have a copy ... on its shelves.
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Queen Pokou: Concerto for a Sacrifice a novel

Vronique Tadjo, translated by Amy Baram Reid
With Queen Pokou, Tadjo has given a clear and magnificent rendition of an Akan classic of this tragic motif. In an English version that seems not to have lost anything in translation, this poetic narrative is as lyrical as it is cerebrally compelling. AMA ATA AIDOO Tadjo uses her powerful and fertile imagination to rekindle an ancient Akan myth and deliberately sets it ablaze! FEMI OSOFISAN This award-winning novel, woven into the framework of eighteenth century West Africa, recounts the story of Queen Abraha Pokous sacrifice of her son to save the Baoule people. But it is also much more than that. Telling and retelling the story, changing key elements each timewhat if the queen saved her son? what if she went crazy from grief? what if she ended up on a slave ship? and so onVronique Tadjo explores both intimate personal relationships and broad historical themes. Her multiple retellings of events surrounding the founding of the Baoule invites discussion not only of the past, but also about the challenges of the present, most notably the bloody ethnic wars that have engulfed West Africa in recent decades. Both enchantingly poetic and deceptively simple, Queen Pokou received the prestigious Grand Prix littraire dAfrique noire in 2005. Vronique Tadjo, a widely acclaimed African Francophone writer, is head of French studies at the School of Literature and Language Studies at the University of Witswatersrand in South Africa.
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An important collection.... Enhances a readers understanding of the development from oral literature to contemporary written texts.... There is an exciting sense of discovery as one turns the pages of this book. ANNE SERAFIN, MULTICULTURAL REVIEW Ranging from ancient cultures to the present century, from Africas rich oral traditions to its contemporary fiction, poetry, and drama, this long-awaited comprehensive anthology reflects the enduring themes of African literature. The pieces are organized chronologically within geographic region and enhanced by both introductory material and biographical notes on each writer. An author/title index and suggestions for further reading are also included. Anthonia C. Kalu is professor of African American and African studies at Ohio State University.
Boy E. Mphahlele, Exile in Nigeria THE POSTCOLONIAL PERIOD, 1957 TO THE PRESENT North Africa T. Salih, The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid Y. Sibai, The Country Boy A. Djebar, My Father Writes to My Mother D. Chraibi, Mother Comes of Age (Chs 23) N. el Saadawi, The Fall of the Imam A. Chedid, Who Remains Standing? T. AlHakim, Food for the Millions (Acts 13). West Africa C. Achebe, Things Fall Apart (Chs 34) F. Nwapa, Efuru (Chs 910) F. Oyono, Houseboy M. B, So Long a Letter (Chs 18) B. Emecheta, Kehinde (Chs 1314) S. Ousmane, Tribal Scars or The Voltaique Z. Alkali, Saltless Ash B. Kwakye, The Clothes of Nakedness (Chs 89) K. Awoonor, Songs of Sorrow B. Dadie, I Thank You God K. Anyidoho, Our Birth-Cord I. Amadiume, Nok Lady in Terracotta E. Ohaeto, It Is Easy to Forget A.P.A. Busia, Achimota L.S. Senghor, Letter to a Poet B. Diop, Breath L. Peters, Soweto, I Know Your Anguish W. Soyinka, Abiku C. Okigbo, Heavens-gate (I, V) N. Osundare, Our Earth Will Not Die N.B. Horne, Nana Bosompo O. Agbajoh-Laoye, Motherhood Cut Short W. Soyinka, The Trials of Brother Jero (Act 1, Scenes 13) A.A. Aidoo, Anowa (from Phase 1). Central Africa H. Lopes, The Honorable Gentleman T. U Tamsi, Agony. East Africa and the Horn N. wa Thiongo, Mugumo A. Ayoda, Workday P. Anyang-NyongO, Daughter of the Low Land W. Odame, By the Long Road T. Gabre-Medhin, Home-Coming Son O. pBitek, Song of Lawino. Southern Africa B. Head, The Deep River M. V. Mzamane, Children of Soweto N. Gordimer, A City of the Dead, A City of the Living D. Marechera, Black Skin What Mask G. Ndlovu, The Barrel of a Pen T. Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (Ch 4) S. Magona, A State of Outrage D. Brutus, Robben Island Sequence G. Mhlope, Sometimes When it Rains A. Neto, Kinaxixi C. Hove, Nursery Rhyme After a War M. Kunene, A Note to All Surviving Africans N.S. Ndebele, The Revolution of the Aged L. Nkosi, The Rhythm of Violence (Act 1, Scenes 13).
2007/977 pages LC: 2006036746 ISBN: 978-1-58826-491-6 hc $125/99.95

PARTIAL CONTENTS: THE ORAL TRADITION North Africa The King Climbs to the Sky on a Ladder The Shipwrecked Sailor. West Africa Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky Anansi Borrows Money The Song of Gimmile Iron Is Received from Ogun. Central Africa The Woman Who Killed Her Co-Wife The Mwindo Epic. East Africa and the Horn Wanjiru, Sacrificed by Her People The Legend of Kintu How Makeda Visited Jerusalem, and How Menelik Became King . Southern Africa Why the Hippo Has a Stumpy Tail Mnkabayi, Daughter of Jama of the Zulu Clan Senzangakhona EARLY AFRICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHIES Equianos Travels Narrative of the Travels of Ali Eisami The Narrative of Samuel Ajayi Crowther Slave Boy to Priest THE COLONIAL PERIOD, 18851956 West Africa A. Opoku, River Afram C. Laye, The Dark Child (Chs 23) J.E. Henshaw, The Jewels of the Shrine A. Tutuola, The Palm Wine Drinkard. Central Africa P.G. Lumumba, Dawn in the Heart of Africa. South Africa T. Mofolo, Chaka (Chs 34) S.W. Nkuhlu, The Land of the People Once Living P. Abrahams, Mine

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The Blind Kingdom

Vronique Tadjo, translated by Janis A. Mayes
The Blind Kingdom is a collection of short stories and poetic texts woven together to illustrate an African society on the brink of collapse. Writing in 1960 at a time when Cte dIvoire was in chaos after declaring its independence from France, Vronique Tadjo explores themes of love, independence, and renewal as she creates a new world of hope and creativity. Her illuminating political allegory will resonate with contemporary readers as they draw parallels between Cte dIvoires crisis of forty years ago and the turmoil facing the country today. This edition includes an afterword by the translator, Janis Mayes, as well as Professor Mayes interview with the author.
2008/106 pages ISBN: 978-0-9555079-1-5
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Masculinities in African Literary and Cultural Texts

Helen Nabasuta Mugambi and Tuzyline Jita Allan, editors
This impressive collection provides many answers and is destined to become a staple in the library.
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The Other Crucifix a novel

Benjamin Kwakye
Praised as one of the most accomplished of a new generation of African novelistsand perhaps the most important Ghanaian writer since Ayi Kwei ArmahBenjamin Kwakye establishes a powerful connection with the reader in his story of a young African mans immigrant experience. The protagonist in The Other Crucifix immerses himself in American college life, a new life that alienates him in more ways than one from his native Africa. As the years pass, memories of Ghana fade until his uncles death in a coup dtat triggers a crucial reawakening. Benjamin Kwakye is author of The Clothes of Nakedness (awarded the 1999 Commonweath Writers Prize for Best First Book, Africa) and The Sun by Night (awarded the 2006 Commonweath Writers Prize, Africa). Born in Ghana, he attended Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School and now lives in Chicago.
April 2010/ca. 220 pages ISBN: 978-0-9562401-2-5
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Offers important insights that both clarify and complicate our hitherto stereotypical notions of masculinities in Africa. KOFI ANYIDOHO Every chapter here makes a significant contribution to the growing theoretical and analytical scholarship in the field. The editors deserve commendation for putting together important materials that have opened up a new dimension in Cultural and Gender Studies. ABDUL-RASHEED NALLAH Focusing on the ways in which men are represented and problematized in African literary and other cultural expression, this collection represents a ground-breaking intervention in a field that is largely woman-centered. The book, with its multigenre approach, will serve as a vital and much-needed resource for both scholars and students. Helen Nabasuta Mugambi is associate professor of English and comparative literature at California State University, Fullerton. Tuzyline Jita Allan is professor of English at Baruch College.
CONTENTS: PrefaceA.C. Kalu. Introductionthe Editors. CONFIGURING MASCULINITY IN ORATURE AND FILM. Staging Masculinity in the East African EpicK.W. Waliaula. Masculinity in the West African EpicT.A. Hale. Men and Power: Masculinity in the Folktales and Proverbs of the BagandaA. Kiyimba. Ndabaga Folktale Revisited: (De)Constructing Masculinity in PostGenocide Rwandan SocietyR.B. Gallimore. Deploying Masculinity in African Oral Poetic Performance: The Man in UdjeT. Ojaide. Masculinity on Trial: Gender Anxiety in African Song PerformancesH.N. Mugambi. Faces of Masculinity in African Cinema: Dani Kouyates Sia, Le Rve du PythonD. Dipio. Masculinity in Selected North African Films: An Exploration J.D.H. Downing. Penetrating XalaB. Lindfors. WRITING THE MASCULINE. Rapacious Masculinity and Ethno-Colonial Politics in a Swahili Novel A. Bukenya. Masculinity in Achebes Anthills of the SavannahC.A. Okafor. Dark Bodies/White Masks: African Masculinities and Visual Culture in Graceland, The Joys of Motherhood and Things Fall ApartG. Etter-Lewis. Sexual Impotence as Metonymy for Political Failure: Interrogating Hegemonic Masculinities in Ama Ata Aidoos AnowaN.B. Horne. Virility and Emasculation in Ahmadou Kouroumas NovelsS.A. Konate. Women, Men, and Exotopy: On the Politics of Scale in Nuruddin Farahs MapsP. Hitchcock. Killing the Pimp: Firadauss Challenge to Masculine Authority in Nawal El Saadawis Woman at Point ZeroM.S. Zucker. The Price of Pleasure: K. Sello Duikers Thirteen Cents and the Economics of Homosexuality in South AfricaT. Johns. The Ambivalence of Masculinity in Gorgui Diengs A Leap Out of the DarkD. Loum. A Retrospective: Looking for the African in the Hybrid: Thoughts on Masculinity in Equianos The Interesting NarrativeT.J. Allan. Afterword: Masculinities in African Literary and Cultural TextsS. Gikandi. May 2010/352 pages ISBN: 978-0-9555079-5-3
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Caught in the Storm a novel

Seydou Badian, translated by Marie-Thrse Noiset
Noiset ... has meticulously preserved the integrity and subtlety of the original French, its invigorating idiom and orality, without undermining its satiric undertonesa challenging task she has mastered beautifully.
JAMAL EN-NEHAS, WORLD LITERATURE TODAY

This poignant novel evokes the utopian hopes at the very dawn of the decolonization of Africa.
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A gentle novel about the enduring conflict between young and old, new and traditional, foreign and native. Badian tells the story of a village family in an African country under French rule. The familys father and the eldest son revere the customs of their ancestors, while the younger children are strongly attracted by European ways and ideas. The inevitable conflict intensifies when the daughter, who has fallen in love with her Westernized schoolmate, is promised in marriage to a merchant who already has two wives.

As the story unfolds, it is traditional African wisdom, generous to all perspectives and faithful to both generations, that resolves the familys problems. First published in French (as Sous lorage) in 1954. Seydou Badian was a member of the second generation of African intellectuals that rose to defend the value of their own culture and to take a greater role in their political future. After the establishment of the Republic of Mali in 1960, he was leader of the radical Marxist group in the government of Modibo Keita, and he spent 10 years in prison after Keitas 1968 overthrow. Marie-Thrse Noiset is associate professor of French at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
1998/116 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-793-1 ISBN: 978-0-89410-794-8 LC: 95-51197 hc $25/19.95 pb $12.50/9.95

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Nervous Conditions a novel

Tsitsi Dangarembga, with a new introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah
An absorbing page-turner that will delight the reader. BLOOMSBURY REVIEW From the first days of its publication, it was obvious that Nervous Conditions had the makings of a classic: a timeless coming-of-age tale, great lyrical narrative, unforgettable characters, and courageous. Sixteen years down the line, this notion has been amply confirmed. AMA ATA AIDOO Dangarembgas characters are fascinating, and the issue of freedom is examined dispassionately and firmly. A unique and valuable book. BOOKLIST Dangarembgas acclaimed first novel tells of the coming-of-age of Tambu and, through her, also offers a profound portrait of African society. In awarding Nervous Conditions the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa in 1989, the judges described the book as a beautiful and sensitive exploration of the plight and struggle of an African people.... A distinguishing feature of this work is its courageous honesty and devastating understatement. Tsitsi Dangarembga lived and studied in both England and Germany before returning to her native Zimbabwe. She currently is working on the third novel in the trilogy that began with Nervous Conditions and continues in The Book of Not.
2004/224 pages ISBN: 978-0-9547023-3-5
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A Fine Madness
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Mashingaidze Gomo
This is a masterful work. I found it powerful, as powerful as the fiction of the early Marechera.
SIMON GIKANDI

Combining powerful prose and evocative poetry, Mashingaidze Gomos first novel reflects on the nature of war and the fate of African identities during Zimbabwes struggle for independence. Gomos poignant portrait follows a warrior who fights Africas wars in places where the battlefronts keep changing, but the enemy remains the sameand where foreign influences continue to dictate the direction of his and Africas future. Negotiating the fine line between literary and political genres, A Fine Madness reiterates the scars left by colonialism. Mashingaidze Gomo, a native of Zimbabwe, was a member of the Zimbabwean Defence Forces in 19842007. His work is already being compared to such classics in the African literary canon as Franz Fanons The Wretched of the Earth, Aime Cesaires Discourse on Colonialism, and Okot pBiteks Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol.
April 2010/ca. 208 pages ISBN: 978-0-9562401-4-9
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The Book of Not a novel

Tsitsi Dangarembga
This novel disrupts any comfortable sense of closure to the dilemmas of colonial modernity explored in Nervous Conditions. Life happens to Tambu and she must make another journey.... This is a most engrossing and provocative sequel [and one] that already begs another. NANA WILSON-TAGOE A most intensely felt and remembered book that reproduces the feel, sight, sound, and emotion of an African convent boarding school a quarter of a century ago.... No book I have read conveys so powerfully and truthfully the wounds of cultural colonialism. TERRENCE RANGER This is, as its title suggests, a book about denial and unfulfilled expectations, about the theft of the self that remains one of colonialisms most pernicious legacies. Through all of this, however, it remains funny and engaging, a tale of adolescent rivalry and misadventure, narrated in a style that blends the sardonic with the lyrical. CHRIS WARNES This sequel to the award-winning Nervous Conditions traces Tambus continuing quest to redefine the personal, political, and historical forces at work in her complex world.
2006/256 pages ISBN: 978-0-9547023-7-3
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The Cry of Winnie Mandela

a novel
Njabulo S. Ndebele
Njabulo Ndebele has walked where angels fear to tread: he has made Winnie Mandela a character in an epic story that speaks powerfully about South Africas recent history and legacy.
BEVERLY ROOS, CAPE ARGUS

Critical Perspectives on Dennis Brutus

Craig W. McLuckie and Patrick J. Colbert,
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Achebe, Head, Marechera: On Power

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Annie Gagiano

African Novels in the Classroom

Margaret Jean Hay, editor Hay has edited nothing short of an instantly invaluable resource for teachers of African studies.... perhaps the most useful resource I have found for teachers of African literature and African studies at the college level. DONALD E. LANDRUM, MULTICULTURAL REVIEW

Poet, activist, teacher, and scholar, Dennis Brutus is one of the foremost names in African literatureas a creative force, a cultural influence, and a personality. Exploring Brutuss life and writings, this collection opens with a biographical introduction to his art and activism, covering his childhood, his university days, his arrest and imprisonment in 19641965, his years in exile, and his eventual return to South Africa in 1991. Subsequent essays focus on Brutuss poetry, though his politics are not ignored, and several pieces are personal accounts of meetings with the writer. The book includes an interview with Brutus and an annotated bibliography. Craig W. McLuckie is professor of English at Okanagan University College in Canada. Patrick J. Colbert is associate dean of arts at Okanagan University College.
1995/269 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-769-6 ISBN: 978-0-89410-770-2

[An] excellent critical study.... This work deserves a place on the shelves of students of African studies. Gagiano has carefully dissected the literary works of these three great African writers so that the rest of us may now go beyond wherever we were before we read A wonderfully practical, even inspiring, her book.... opens passageways to meaningful book for Africanist teachers at the undergraddiscussions on African literature and postJAN BENDER SHETLER, uate level. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES GLEN BUSH, colonial studies.
AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW

The Cry of Winnie Mandela is a powerful novel that links the lives of four ordinary South African women with the life of Winnie Mandela. It is the story of five women who wait for their husbands during the long years of struggle against apartheid. Njabulo S. Ndebele is author of the celebrated Fools and Other Stories, as well as the childrens book Bonolo and the Peach Tree and The Rediscovery of the Ordinary, a widely known collection of critical essays. He is currently vice chancellor of the University of Cape Town.
2004/160 pages ISBN: 978-0-9547023-0-4
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Probing analysis of the narratives of three of Africas most distinguished novelists.... this book is recommended for all college and university libraries.CHOICE

Concentrating on issues of power and change, Annie Gagianos close reading of literary texts by Chinua Achebe, Bessie Head, and Dambudzo Marechera teases out each authors view of how colonialism affected Africa, the contribution of LC: 94-6489 Africans to their own malaise, and above hc $35/27.95 all, the creative, progressive, pragmatic pb $16.95/13.50 role of many Africans during the colonial and postcolonial periods. Annie Gagiano lectures in English at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa).
2000/314 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-887-7 LC: 99-056357 hc $59.95/47.95

Some of the best college teachers have found novels to be extremely effective assignments in courses addressing various aspects of African studies. Here, two dozen of those teachers describe their favorite African novels and share their experiences in using them in the classroom. Margaret Jean Hays publications include African Women South of the Sahara (coedited with Sharon Stichter).
CONTENTS: Introduction. Peter Abrahams, A Wreath for UdomoR. Rathbone. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall ApartM. Klein. Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet BornE. Akyeampong. Miriama B, So Long a LetterJ. Pritchett. Driss Chrabi, Mother Comes of AgeJ. Spleth. Lindsey Collen, The Rape of SitaB. Mack. Maryse Cond, SeguJ. Bowman. Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous ConditionsB. Bravman. Modikwe Dikobe, The Marabi DanceI. Berger. Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of MotherhoodM. Bastian. Buchi Emecheta, The Slave GirlK. Sheldon. Nuruddin Farah, GiftsL. Kapteijns. Elsa Joubert, Poppie NongenaJ. Penvenne. J. Nozipo Nkosama Maraire, ZenzeleK. Keim. Meja Mwangi, Going Down River RoadC. Ambler. Ngugi wa Thiongo, A Grain of Wheat M.J. Hay. D.T. Niane, SundiataC. Keim. Flora Nwapa, EfuruS. Greene. Ferdinand Oyono, HouseboyB. Cooper. Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the NorthF. Topan. Ousmane Sembene, Gods Bits of WoodD. Cordell. Wole Soyinka, AkeT. Giles-Vernick. Moyez G. Vassanji, The Gunny SackJ. Monson. P. T. Zeleza, Smouldering CharcoalM. Page. Appendixes: Novels by Region. Novels by Theme. 2000/314 pages ISBN: 978-1-55587-878-8
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Underground People
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Lewis Nkosi
This is one of the best books to have come out of South Africa in recent times.... This absorbingly fine novel is a leafed score of reflection and sardonic wit, as well as a gripping page turner.
ANDRIES OLIPHANT, SOUTH AFRICAN SUNDAY TIMES

Nkosis is a voice that needs to be heard. HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. Following on his awarding-winning Mating Birds, Lewis Nkosis second novel is a tour de force. Nkosi takes us from mansions to mountain hideouts, introducing a dazzling array of characters. Switching from comedy to sensitive observation to action, and with doubledealing operatives and political shenanigans, Underground People blends elements of a political thriller in a sophisticated human drama. Lewis Nkosi is an eminent critic, novelist, and essayist. A writer for Drum magazine in its 1950s heyday, he later went into exile from South Africa, pursuing his academic career elsewhere in Africa, in the United States, and in Europe. At present, he lives in Switzerland.
2005/320 pages ISBN: 978-0-9547023-2-8
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Bu Me Be:
Proverbs of the Akans
Peggy Appiah, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Ivor Agyeman-Duah
This collection will be useful not only for linguists, but for anyone that takes Akan culture seriously, from anthropologists to historians, to cultural critics.... It is a veritable treasure trove. ATO QUAYSON Invaluable. Our languages cannot grow as literary languages unless we also develop tools that will enable their effective use. Our languages must be in dialogue with not only the languages of Europe, but also those of Africa and Asia. This work is an important step in that direction. NGUGI WA THIONGO This invaluable bilingual collection of more than 7,000 Akan proverbs reveals the nuances of Akan and Asante life and culture. Kwame Anthony Appiahs introduction to the volume contextualizes the proverbs, revealing the wit and wisdom of the Akan language and demonstrating how the proverbs can be compared with philosophical musings from a wide range of other countries. The late Peggy Appiah was awarded the MBE by Queen Elizabeth II for her distinguished promotion of Anglo-Ghanaian cultural and creative enterprises. Kwame Anthony Appiah is professor of philosophy at Princeton University. Ivor Agyeman-Duah is founder of the Centre for Intellectual Renewal in Ghana.
2008/312 pages ISBN: 978-0-9555079-2-2
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Broadening the Horizon:

Critical Introductions to Amma Darko
Vincent O. Odamtten, editor Amma Darko is revealed in this important collection as a novelist whose work reflects both compelling storytelling talent and unflinching criticism of what Ghana has become as its people are increasingly enmeshed in the network of global capitalism. The authors critically situate Darkos work within the context of postindependence Ghanaian and other African writers such as Ayi Kwei Armah, Ama Ata Aidoo, Mariama B, and Florence Nwapa. Vincent O. Odamtten, a poet and critic originally from Ghana, is professor of English at Hamilton College.
C ONTENTS : Introduction: Beyond the Comfort ZoneV.O. Odamtten. Amma Darko: Writing Her WayL.A. Zak. Victims and/or Victimisers? Womens De(Con)structive Power in The HousemaidM. Bungaro. Licit Desires, Alien Bodies and the Economics of Invisibility in Amma Darkos Beyond the Horizon and Stephen Frears Dirty Pretty ThingsS.P. OConnell and V.O. Odamtten. Ngambika and Grassroots Fiction: Amma Darkos The Housemaid and FacelessM.E. Higgins. Amma Darkos The Housemaid and the Gendering of Novel and NationC. Garritano. Exploitation, Negligence and Violence: Gendered Interrelationships in Amma Darkos NovelsG. Angsotinge, K. Dako, A. Denkabe, and H. Yitah. Amma Darkos Beyond the Horizon: Vending the Dream and Other Traumas for the Obedient DaughterV.O. Odamtten. Sage, Muse, Crone: The Grandmother in Amma Darkos NovelsN.B. Horne. Breaking the Shell: Our Customs, Our Traditions and the Pan-African Dream; Or, Rethinking PanAfricanismA. Darko. 2007/160 pages ISBN: 978-0-9547023-8-0
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The Wild Hunter in Ken Saro-Wiwa: the Bush of the Ghosts Writer and Political Activist
Amos Tutuola, edited by Bernth Lindfors Bernth Lindfors ... [is] to be congratulated for recovering for the Tutuola reader, forty years on, that early vivid freshness and raw intensity in this new edition of the authors DEREK WRIGHT, first written work.
CRNLE REVIEWS JOURNAL

Craig W. McLuckie and Aubrey McPhail,

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A lively, colourful tale, unadulterated by any long-winded words or pretentious ideas. The story is told as if it were coming directly from the tellers mouth. MARY HARPER, WEST AFRICA The manuscript for this novel, written in 1948, was hidden in a file in London for more than thirty years, until unearthed by Bernth Lindfors. The present edition of the book, its first publication other than a limited facsimile edition in 1982, incorporates minor revisions made by Tutuola during a visit to the United States in 1983, when he corrected obvious errors and restructured several passages. The first long prose fiction written by a Nigerian author for publication in English, Wild Hunter is a classic example of Tutuolas blend of Yoruba and Christian theology, local folkloric archetypes, and African oral tradition. Amos Tutuola (19201997) is recognized as a founding father of 20th century Nigerian literature. Among his most celebrated novels, all written in his distinctive Yoruba-influenced version of English, is The Palm-Wine Drunkard (1952), also adapted into a play.
1989/126 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-452-7 ISBN: 978-0-89410-453-4

The editors have done an outstanding job of bringing together first-rate minds to cover the multiple dimensions of Saro-Wiwas writing and political career.... The bibliography is extensive and impressive.... This is probably the most comprehensive book to date analyzing Saro-Wiwas creativity. TOYIN FALOLA,
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES

The McLuckie-McPhail volume [strikes] ... the right balance between honoring the man and criticizing his patent excesses. The detailed bibliography, careful organization of essays, and diversity of information in this volume also make it an outstanding contribution to African literary studies, the best resource on Saro-Wiwa to date. CHRISTOPHER WISE,
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The shocking execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa at the hands of the Nigerian government in 1995 stirred new interest in the many facets of his lifeas novelist and short story writer, radio and television personality, publisher and entrepreneur, political and environmental activist. This interdisciplinary collection critically assesses SaroWiwas exceptional life and work from a range of fresh perspectives. The authors examine Saro-Wiwas literary output both in terms of literary criticism and within a political framework. They give equal attention to his more public roles, including public reaction within Nigeria to his work. A comprehensive, annotated bibliography of print hc $20/15.95 and electronic resources on Saro-Wiwa is pb $10/7.95 an indispensable feature of the book. Craig W. McLuckie is professor of English at Okanagan University College in Canada. Aubrey McPhail is in the English Department at Mount Royal University.
2000/292 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-883-9 LC: 99-31267 hc $59.95/47.95

A Month and a Day & Letters

Ken Saro-Wiwa, with a foreword by Wole Soyinka
A Month and a Day & Letters presents an edited version of A Detention Diary, Ken SaroWiwas own record of his arrest in July 1993 and the story of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People and the struggle against the Nigerian military dictatorship. Saro-Wiwas criticisms of the corrupt regime eventually led to his execution, along with eight others, in November 1995. This edition also includes previously unpublished letters smuggled to and from SaroWiwa during his final imprisonmentincluding correspondence with Nelson Mandela, Nadine Gordimer, and Ethel Kennedy, as well as other concerned people from around the worldand a letter written by Ken Wiwa to his late father. On September 3, 1993, Saro-Wiwa wrote to the president of International PEN: The writer is his cause. I am more and more convinced ... that the path of literature is the assured way to human salvation and civilisation. I hail the power of the pen. That power is abundantly, and poignantly, displayed in this volume.
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Fathers and Daughters:

An Anthology of Exploration
Ato Quayson, editor
The rarely explored relationship between African men and their daughters is brought to the forefront in this anthology of newly commissioned stories and essays. Pieces by women about their fathers and men about their daughters shed light not only on particular relationships, but also on broader perceptions of African fatherhood. Contributors include Leila Aboulela, Ama de-Graft Aikins, Abena P. Busia, Harry Garuba, Simon Gikandi, Helon Habila, Abiola Irele, Anthonia Kalu, Obiageli Okigbo, Teju Olaniyan, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Vronique Tadjo, and Izundu Uchenna. Ato Quayson is professor of English and director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto.
2009/196 pages ISBN: 978-0-9555079-0-8
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The New African Poetry: An Anthology

Tanure Ojaide and Tijan M. Sallah, editors This impressive anthologythe most comprehensive in years in terms of gender, geography, and nationalityhopefully will turn the tide in favor of attention to the continents contemporary bards.... Equally important, the informative introduction contextualizes the volume within the continents recent artistic renaissance. WORLDVIEW These forward-looking and energetic poems reveal that new African poets sing of a world reshaped. LIBRARY JOURNAL This anthology presents the voices of a new generation of African poets, drawn from across the continent and representing a wide range of themes, styles, and ideologies. Tanure Ojaide is professor of African and African-American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Tijan M. Sallah is author of three poetry collections and a book of short stories.
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Dreams of Dusty Roads: New Poems

Tijan M. Sallah In Dreams of Dusty Roads Tijan Sallah has matured into a master word magician.... This collection has given me more delight than any other book of poetry I have read in recent years. TANURE OJAIDE

Traces of a Life:
A Collection of Elegies and Praise Poems
Abena P.A. Busia

These poems of lamentation and celebration were written and dedicated to individualssome famous, some unknownwhose lives touched the One of the most important literary voices author in a profound way. I discovered, writes Busia, that these poems when to emerge from The Gambia for several decades, Sallah writes nostalgically about placed together not only record the lives of those to whom they are dedicated, but his African roots. This, his third collecin the end also trace my own. tion, includes elegant, often melodic Abena P.A. Busia is associate profespoems about love, prayer, fate, homesicksor in the Departments of Literatures in ness, and the contrasts between different English, Comparative Literature, and places and cultures. Tijan M. Sallah is author of three poet- Womens and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Widely published in the fields ry collections and a book of short stories. of colonial discourse and African litera1993/79 pages LC: 99-056007 ture, she is also author of an earlier volISBN: 978-0-89410-765-8 hc $25/19.95 ume of poems, Testimonies in Exile.
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The Legacy of Efua Sutherland:

Pan-African Cultural Activism
Anne V. Adams and Esi Sutherland-Addy, editors
These intellectually stimulating reminiscences provide invigorating accounts of Sutherland's pragmatic and progressive visionary approach to African education and culture. KWADWO OSEI-NYAME, JR. This incisive collection of essays on the legacy of Efua Sutherland, published 11 years after her death, will rekindle an awareness of her lifes work as an educator, publisher, artist, and writer. The collection also reflects Sutherlands deep passion for African and Ghanaian culture, as well as theatrical cultures from around the world. Anne V. Adams is director of the W.E.B. DuBois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture in Ghana. Esi Sutherland-Addy, Efua Sutherlands eldest daughter, is senior research fellow and head of the Language, Literature, and Drama Section of the Institute of African Studies and associate director of the African Humanities Institute Programme at the University of Ghana.
C ONTENTS : PrefaceA. Sutherland Phillips. Introductionthe Editors. EFUA SUTHERLANDS ARTISTIC SPACE. The Attainment of Discovery: Efua Sutherland and the Evolution of Modern African DramaO. Rotimi. When Anansegoro Begins to Grow: Reading Efua Sutherland Three Decades OnB. Jeyifo. Kodzidan Mboguw: Supplanted Acts, Displaced Narratives, and the Social Logic of a Trickster in the House of StoriesD. Donkor. The Entrance of Ghanaian Women into Popular EntertainmentJ. Collins. Empowerment for Gender Equality Through Theatre: The Case of TusemeP. Mlama. Efua Theodora Sutherland: Visionary Pioneer of Ghanaian Childrens LiteratureM. Komasi. Creating for and with Children: Efua Sutherlands Childrens PlaysE. SutherlandAddy. Meshack Asare: Transforming Folklore into Childrens LiteratureJ. Martini. Revis(it)ing Ritual: The Challenge to the Virility of Tradition in Works by Efua Sutherland and Fellow African Women WritersA.V. Adams. Dramatising the Diasporas Return: Tess Onwuemes The Missing Face and Ama Ata Aidoos The Dilemma of a GhostS. Richards. Hesitant Homecomings in Hansberrys and Aidoos First PlaysJ. Lemly. Introducing Daughters of AfricaM. Busby. Selected Bibliography on Efua SutherlandJ. Gibbs. E FUA S UTHERLAND AND C ULTURAL A CTIVISM . Here, Then, Is Efua: Sutherland and the Drama StudioR. July. KodzidanS. Arkhurst. The Ghana National Commission on ChildrenC. Caulley-Hanson. Architecture: Spatial Deployment for Community ExperienceH.N.A. Wellington. Pan-African Partnership on Childrens Literature: Reminiscences of a Diaspora EducatorV. Windley. Theres a Lot of Strength in Our People: Efua Sutherlands Last Interview F. Osofisan. R EMINISCENCES AND T RIBUTES . TommyM. McMullan. My MentorF. Laast. Efua Theodora Sutherland: A Personal Reflection W. Branch. Reaching Out to Your Africa: Obituary of Efua SutherlandM. Busby. Tribute to a SisterM. Angelou. Mother Courage: A Tribute to Auntie Efua from All Her Children in the Arts K. Anyidoho. The Pathfinder (For Auntie Efua at Araba Mansa)M. Busby. Spirit of the Red Earth: Remembering EfuaM. Watts. An Interrogation of an Academic Kind: An EssayA.A. Aidoo. EFUA THEODORA SUTHERLAND: A LIFE IN BRIEF. Dr. Efua Sutherland (A Biographical Sketch)K. Anyidoho. ChronologyA. Sutherland Phillips. 2008/271 pages ISBN: 978-0-9547023-1-1
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Islam and the West African Novel: The

Politics of Representation
Ahmed S. Bangura Bangura has produced an original and pioneering study that is likely to define the critical tradition of African literature of Islamic orientation for many years to come.
ALAMIN MAZRUI, JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC STUDIES

Yambo Ouologuem:
Postcolonial Writer, Islamic Militant
Christopher Wise, editor The first three parts of the book constitute an essential source for study of the reception of Ouologuem.... It is, however, the concluding accounts of Wises own research in the field which make this volume indispensable for future discussion of Ouologuem and open the path for innovative in vivo research into GEORGE LANG, African writing.
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The City Where No One Dies

a novel
Bernard Dadi, translated by Janis A. Mayes In this witty and ironic reversal of the typical colonial travelogue, Dadi recounts the journey of a bemused African traveler who settles in Rome, continuing his inquiries into the fundamental nature of humankind. Part conqueror, part pilgrim, part worshipper, and part critic, the protagonist compares Roman and African customs, traditions, history, and above all, personalities. Dadis account of the rewards and pitfalls of exploring other cultures is spiced with a generous enthusiasm and respect for life and all its eccentricities. First published in French in 1968. Bernard Dadi, born near Abidjan in 1916, is a prolific Ivorian novelist, playwright, and poet. He was Cte dIvoires minister of culture in 19771986. In his writing, influenced by his experiences of colonialism as a child, Dadi attempts to connect the messages of traditional African folktales with the contemporary world. Janis A. Mayes is associate professor of comparative African literatures in the Department of African, Caribbean, and African-American Literatures at Syracuse University.
1986/139 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-498-5
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An original and provocative narrative.... [Banguras] book offers a rich panoply of themes and issues to consider in the analysis of Islam in African fiction.
ROBERTA ANN DUNBAR, AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW

Bangura has produced a pioneering study of unmistakable strength. ALAMIN MAZRUI,

RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES

A wealth of well-documented information on literary, historical, philosophical, and mundane aspects of Ouologuems work.
ROBERT P. SMITH JR., WORLD LITERATURE TODAY

Ahmed Bangura argues that a deeply ingrained pattern of prejudice toward Islam in European-language writing on Africa has led to serious misreadings of many West African novels. Bangura discusses the historical and sociological contexts of Islam in subSaharan Africa, providing a framework for the study of West African novels with an Islamic subtext. Contrasting his own reading of the novels of Sembne Ousmane, Aminata Sow Fall, and Ibrahim Tahir with that of traditional Western critics, his analysis also features Wole Soyinka, Deborah Boyd-Buggs, Mohamadou Kane, Ali Mazrui, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ahmadou Kourouma, Mbaye Cham, and Kenneth Harrow. Ahmed S. Bangura is associate professor of modern languages at the University of San Francisco.
2000/176 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-863-1 LC: 99-056007 hc $49.95/39.95

Wise renders an important service by bringing together a dozen articles and several recent interviews on the work of this Malian (West African) francophone.... Recommended for all college and university collections supporting studies of African, African American, and postcolonial literature. CHOICE From the appearance of Bound to Violence in the late 1960s, Yambo Ouologuem has been one of Africas most controversial writers. This book gathers the most important essays on Ouologuem from critics on three continents. Wise also includes his recent interviews with the reclusive author and a companion essay on Ouologuems present life among the Tidjaniya Muslims of northern Mali. Christopher Wise is associate professor of English at Western Washington University, where he teaches global literary studies.
1999/258 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-861-7 LC: 98-46339 hc $29.95/23.95

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African Love Stories: An Anthology

Ama Ata Aidoo, editor
This collection of contemporary love stories by women from Africa and the African Diaspora combines the tentative freshness of budding writers with the confidence of established and award-winning authors. The anthology debunks preconceived notions about African women as impoverished victims, showing their strength, complexity, and diversity. The stories deal with a range of challenging themesincluding taboo subjects such as same-sex relationships, domestic violence, female circumcision, and ageismto produce a melting pot of narratives from multiple informed perspectives. Contributors include Sindiwe Magona and Antjie Krog from South Africa; Vronique Tadjo from Cte dIvoire; Leila Aboulela from Sudan; Nawal El Saadawi from Egypt; Helen Oyeyemi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sarah Manyika, Sefi Atta, and Promise Ogochukwu from Nigeria; Yaba Badoe from Ghana; Wangui wa Goro from Kenya; and Doreen Baingana and Monica Arac de Nyeko from Uganda. Ama Ata Aidoo, a renowned author in multiple genres, divides her time between Ghana and the United States, where she teaches at Brown University.
2006/272 pages ISBN: 978-0-9547023-6-6
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Maghrebian Mosaic:
A Literature in Transition
Mildred Mortimer, editor
We are lucky to have this valuable contribution to a long-neglected area of literary study.
BEVERLY B. MACK, AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW

Mortimer is to be congratulated for this excellent collection of essays.... A useful mosaic assessment of the present state of North African francophone literature.
MARY ANNE HARSH, RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURE

Maghrebian Mosaic will not only introduce readers to a number of established and emerging francophone Maghribi writers, but also provide them with a wide-ranging overview of current movements in the study of francophone Maghribi literature. SUZANNE GAUCH, NORTH AFRICAN STUDIES When Albert Memmi published the first anthology of francophone Maghrebian literature, he expressed his unhappy belief that francophone writing would quickly be eclipsed by Arabic. To the contrary, this volume demonstrates that the francophone writing of North Africa remains vibrant and prolific. Throughout the collection, the uneasy and ambiguous relationship between the Maghrebian writer and the French language is evident, as is the ongoing political nature of North African literature. Mildred Mortimer is professor of French at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
C ONTENTS : IntroductionM. Mortimer. THE IDENTITY QUEST. Inscribing a Maghrebian Identity in FrenchF. Abu-Haidar. Translation and the Interlingual Text in the Novels of Rachid BoudjedraR. Serrano. Modernity Through Tradition in the Contemporary Algerian Novel: Elements Toward a Global ReflectionG. Carjuzaa. Rewriting Identity and History: The Sliding Barre(s) in Tahar Ben Jellouns The Sacred NightM. Hamil. Rescripting Modernity: Abdelkbir Khatibi and the Archaeology of SignsL. Stone McNeece. INTERIOR LANDSCAPES. Mohammed Dib and Albert Camuss Encounters with the Algerian Landscape F. Ahmad. The Maghreb of the Mind in Mustapha Tlili, Brick Oussad, and Malika MokeddemL. Rice. The Absence of the Self: Tahar Ben Jellouns La Prire de labsentL. Ibnlfassi. WOMENS VOICE, WOMENS VISION. Voices of Resistance in Contemporary Algerian Womens WritingS. Ireland. Malika Mokeddem: A New and Resonant Voice in Francophone Algerian LiteratureY. Helm. Reappropriating the Gaze in Assia Djebars Fiction and FilmM. Mortimer. Hl Bjis GazeS. Lee. Tunisian Women Novelists and Postmodern TunisM. Naudin. BEUR FICTION: NORTH AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS IN FRANCE. Family, History, and Cultural Identity in the Beur NovelD. McConnell. Decentering Language Structures in Akli Tadjers Les A.N.I. du TassiliM. Manopoulos. Storytelling on the Run in Lela Sebbars ShrazadeJ-L. Hippolyte. AFTERWORDM. Mortimer. 2001/325 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-888-4 LC: 00-032856 hc $29.95/23.95

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Nile Baby a novel

Elleke Boehmer
An unusual kind of storypowerful in its use of language, subtle in tone, and seductive in the layers of narrative it presents to the reader. It is as beautiful and haunting as it is affirming and challenging. Above all, it challenges our sense of what we think are African stories. SIMON GIKANDI Nile Baby is Grange Hill crossed with Frankensteina fascinating read.
GILES FODEN, THE GUARDIAN

Nile Baby tells the story of two quirky young friends who discover a 90-year-old fetus in the laboratory storeroom of their school. This imaginative and daring novel explores the boundaries between the living and the dead and between the other and ourselves. With its resonances of Conrad and Achebe, it also confronts the restless ghosts of the past that reside in the most unexpected places of our psyche. The book will appeal to those familiar with African fiction, as well as newcomers to the genre. Elleke Boehmer, a native of South Africa, is professor of world literature in English at the University of Oxford.
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Flutes of Death
a novel
Driss Chrabi, translated by Robin A. Roosevelt

Inspector Ali a novel

Driss Chrabi, translated by Lara McGlashan

Muhammad
a novel
Driss Chrabi, translated by Nadia Benabid
Assuredly one of the most beautiful accounts ever written of ... the Prophet Muhammad.
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Lion Mountain
a novel
Mustapha Tlili, translated by Linda Coverdale This skillful translation is faithful to the originals delicate and evocative language, filled with poetic analogies reminiscent of the Koran. Motherhood and motherland are pointedly interwoven in this work, whose author is so evidently at one with his land.
LIBRARY JOURNAL

After many years abroad, Brahim, the author of stories about a detective (alterThe first book in a trilogy that continues ego) named Ali, returns to Morocco with with Mother Spring and Birth at Dawn, this his pregnant Scottish wife and two sons. naturalistic allegory is set in the Atlas Soon to join them are his in-laws, comMountains. plete with golf clubs and nervous expectaAt the center of the story is the clash tions about a mysterious land. In a warm, between the modern and the traditional, satirical novel about the misunderstandbetween those who are willing to make ing between two worlds, Chrabi pokes cultural accommodation and those who fun at both the native Morocco of Brahim are assertive of ancient traditions. Depicted and the Great Britain of his visiting famiin language that is sometimes acerbic and ly, writing in the sometimes tender, somesometimes lyrical, Chrabis characters times harsh language that is characteristic confront predicaments common to all culof his work. tures. First published in French in 1981.
1985/146 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-327-8 1994/143 pages LC: 83-50204 ISBN: 978-0-89410-746-7 pb $12.95/9.95 ISBN: 978-0-89410-747-4
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[A] moving and lyrical account of the life of Islams most sacred personage.... While the novels action is concentrated intensely upon a period of only a day and a half, its scope extends far beyond LUCY STONE MCNEECE, the here and now to embrace almost the whole of human culture.
THE JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES

One of the assets enabling the reader to appreciate this beautifully lyrical work is Nadia Benabids flawless translation.... [Benabid] masterfully conveys into English the fluid lyricism of the original.
MONA M. ZAKI, BANIPAL

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[Tlilis] description of the willful destruction of a small paradise is movingly elegiac.

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Mother Spring
a novel
Driss Chrabi, translated by Hugh A. Harter Beginning with an epilogue set in the present, this novel quickly moves back to the time of the generation after Muhammada time when North Africa, the home of the Berber peoples, was overrun by Arab armies. With strong characters and a compelling sense of place, Chrabi demonstrates how the Berbers tried to maintain their cultural identity in the face of the overwhelmingly rapid and powerful spread of Islam throughout their world. First published in French in 1982.
1989/118 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-402-2 pb

[Tlilis] fresh, imaginative descriptions empower this work with magic, myth, and poetry. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Mr. Tlili has written a small but elegant novel whose characters bear universal truths.
NEW YORK TIMES

Mother Comes of Age

a novel
Driss Chrabi, translated by Hugh A. Harter Chrabi opens the door on the protected world of a well-to-do Arab woman during World War II and charts her unexpected journey on new intellectual and emotional realms. First published in French in 1972.
1984/121 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-323-0 LC: 81-51655 pb $13.95/10.95

It is the 26th day of Ramadan in the year 610, and a handsome man named Muhammad is meditating in a cave on Mount Hira. The day that will transform Muhammads lifeand change the worldhas begun. This finely crafted, poetic novel captures the mystery of religious revelation as it unfolds in all its intensity, providing a unique window on Islams Prophet. Winner of Moroccos Grand Prix Atlas in 1996, it was first published in French in 1995 as L'homme du Livre. Born in Morocco in 1926, the late Driss Chrabi is author of more than a dozen highly acclaimed novels.
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Lion Mountain is the unforgettable story of a stubborn old woman, a one-legged Nubian war hero, and a mountain. As a young widow with two boys to raise, Horia El-Gharib struggled to reconcile tradition and change. She dared to take on a mans role in commerce and trade to protect the future of her sons but now, all is at risk in the midst of the turmoil of the newly independent regime. Mustapha Tlili, a native of Tunisia, currently makes his home in New York City. The French edition of Lion Mountain was short-listed for the prestigious Prix Fmina in 1988.
1998/180 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-878-5 LC: 97-52967 pb $15.95/12.50

The Butts a novel

The dehumanization of the Arabs who emigrated to Mother France is the subject of The Butts, one of Chrabis earliest novels. First published in French in 1955.
1989/123 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-325-4 LC: 83-70251 pb $13.95/10.95

LC: 83-50206 $14.50/11.50 Driss Chrabi, translated by Hugh A. Harter

Birth at Dawn
a novel
Driss Chrabi, translated by Ann Woollcombe The final volume in this trilogy, Birth at Dawn extends to the eighth century the story of the arrival of Islam in Morocco and Algeria. First published in French in 1986.
1990/136 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-576-0 ISBN: 978-0-89410-577-7 LC: 86-51006 hc $18 pb $12

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Fountain and Tomb a novel

Naguib Mahfouz, translated by Soad Sobhi, Essam Fattouh, and James Kenneson
Mahfouz is engrossed with the mysteries of existence.... The novel reads as an intriguing kaleidoscope, as intricate as a finely patterned prayer mat, as quickly brilliant as a discreet jewel.... The tales are warming, bizarre, frightening, frustratingas, of course, is life.
ANNIE GREET, CRNLE REVIEWS JOURNAL

A Last Glass of Tea

and Other Stories
Mohammed El-Bisatie,
edited and translated by Denys Johnson-Davies

The Sinners
a novel
Yusuf Idris, translated by Kristin Peterson-Ishaq

The Cheapest Nights

Yusuf Idris, translated by Wadida Wassef Yusuf Idris ... is the renovator and genius of the short story. TAWFIQ AL-HAKIM This collection, spanning more than 15 years of Idris' writing career, explores the social problems of everyday life in Egypt with authenticity, empathy, and humor.... Not only Idris' style, but also his social concerns, characters, and situations add up to a unique voice that readers of English are fortunate to have the opportunity to enjoy.
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A woman abandons her newborn baby in A vivid portrait of the lives of the Egyptian a ditch. Soon discovered, the corpse arouses in the local peasants an intense desire poor, particularly in the Nile Delta region, to bring the killer to justiceand gives emerges in this collection of 24 short them the excuse to pry into the lives of the stories. El-Bisatie offers glimpses of the entire community. The primary suspects daily struggles and activities of old men, are a group of migrant workers, and the young women, prisoners, war widows, question of their guilt or innocence soon and everyone in between. Masterfully reveals other kinds of truths. The Sinners is crafted, his stories cultivate in the reader an evocative account of life in prerevolucompassion, hatred, understanding, and tionary Egypt, taking a hard look at the suspense. Mohammed El-Bisatie has written social mores and taboos of peasant society. several volumes of short stories and four First published in Arabic in 1959. novellas. Born in the Nile Delta, he now A physician as well as a writer, Yusuf lives in Cairo. Denys Johnson-Davies has Idris (19271991) was imprisoned for published more than twenty-five volumes political activism under both Farouk and of stories, novels, plays, and poetry trans- Nasser. For a time he was forced to retire lated from modern Arabic literature. He from public view, but he emerged after lives in Cairo. the 1973 war, when he was appointed literary editor of Cairos Al Ahram newspa1998/150 pages LC: 95-22229 per. His stories are powerful reflections of ISBN: 978-0-89410-800-6 hc $14.95 both the experiences of his own rebellious No rights in Egypt or Western Europe life and his concern with social injustice.
1984/118 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-394-0 LC: 95-9464 pb $12.50/9.95

Idris developed a form of expression new to Arabic literary tradition, deliberately distinguishing between the colloquial Arabic spoken by his characters and the classical form that he used as narrator. This innovation at first raised an outcry among Arab critics, who disparaged his deviation from tradition; eventually, however, his work came to be valued as a purely indigenous product and a stark expression of himself.
1989/196 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-666-8
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I enjoy playing in the small square between the archway and the takiya [monastery] where the Sufis live. Like all the other children, I admire the mulberry trees in the takiya garden, the only bit of green in the whole neighborhood. Our tender hearts yearn for their dark berries. But it stands like a fortress, this takiya, circled by its garden wall. Its stern gate is broken and always, like the windows, shut. Aloof isolation drenches the whole compound. Our hands stretch toward this wallreaching for the moon.

So begins Naguib Mahfouzs Fountain and Tomb, a kaleidoscopic novel set in Cairo during the 1920s. The narrator tells tales of the streetof separated lovers, childhood games, workers, neighbors, loneliness. In his alley, his small slice of Egypt, he finds the excitement and harshness of Cairo at the one end, and the withdrawn but beautiful world of the sanctuary at the other. Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz is one of Egypts most beloved writers. This translation of Fountain and Tomb won Columbia Universitys 1986 Arab League Translation Award.
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Bab el-Oued a novel

Merzak Allouache, translated by Angela M. Brewer
Algerias national and cultural problems are translated in this novel into the daily feelings and concerns of its complex characters.
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[Allouache] deftly surveys the embattled populace of a poor section of Algiers ruled by a platitudinous and ingenuous Imam and rife with both sexual tension and militant Islamic politiKIRKUS REVIEWS cal activity. Bored housewives, kept in seclusion, smuggling in Harlequin romances. Modish young men transformed into Islamic militants in beards and white robes. A baker unwittingly caught in a web of intrigue, an imam whose faith is tested by urban corruption, a lonely divorceeall take part in Merzak Allouaches compelling novel of a society on the brink of crisis. Allouache tells the story of the people of Bab el-Oued, a poor neighborhood in

Critical Perspectives on Yusuf Idris

edited by Roger Allen Allen has made a judicious and balanced selection.... All written by well-known scholars and critics, the selected studies analyze a representative number of Idriss works and make available in one handy book an intelligent introduction to his fictional and dramatic universe and a good evaluation of his literary legacy.... A unique autobiographical piece written in English by Idris himself in 1983.... it is a valuable addition to the volume. So is the bibliography of works by and about Idris at the end of the book. ISSA J. BOULLATA, WORLD LITERATURE TODAY
1994/180 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-672-9 pb $16/12.50

contemporary Algiers. His experience as a filmmaker lends the work a cinematic quality, bringing it vibrantly and immediately to life. Through his words, we come to appreciate the human costs of economic and political decline, and also to understand something of the reasons underlying the power of new and violent forms of Islamic militancy. I wrote this book, said Algerian director Merzak Allouache, to exorcise the many frustrations that arose when making the film Bab el-Oued City in Algiers. Writing the book gave me a sense of freedom not possible with the constraints of the camera. Bab el-Oued City is Allouaches fifth full-length film.
1998/133 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-860-0 LC: 98-38470 pb $14.95

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Tawfiq al-Hakim: A Readers Guide

William Maynard Hutchins
Hutchinss thorough knowledge and undoubted passion for his subject succeed in making accessible to Western readers a writer who deserves recognition beyond the small sanctum of Arabs and Arabists.
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Season of Migration to the North

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Tayeb Salih, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
A beautifully constructed novel by an author whose reputation in Arabic is deservedly vast.
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A valuable tool for research and teaching at all levels. Highly recommended. All levels. CHOICE Tawfiq al-Hakim (18981987) dedicated much of his long life to a fruitful attempt to advance the fortunes of twentieth century Arabic literature by writing it. This guide to his work provides paths for readers through his multiple literary worlds. Chapters on his personal history, his novels, plays, short stories, and essays, his Islamic feminism, and his theology are enhanced by a discussion of reactions in the Arab world to his writing. The book also includes plot summaries, a chronology of al-Hakims life, and a comprehensive annotated bibliography. William Maynard Hutchins is known for his translations of Tawfiq al-Hakims Return of the Spirit, In the Tavern of Life and Other Stories, and Plays, Prefaces, and Postscripts, as well as Naguib Mahfouzs Cairo Trilogy. He is professor of Islamic studies at Appalachian State University.
2003/267 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-885-3 LC: 2002036825 hc $29.95/23.95

An Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions. THE OBSERVER Salihs shocking and beautiful novel reveals much about the people on each side of a cultural divide. A brilliant Sudanese student takes his mix of anger and obsession with the West to London, where he has affairs with women who are similarly obsessed with the mysterious East. Life, ecstasy, and death share the same moment in time. First published in Arabic in 1969. Tayeb Salih, a native of Sudan, is one of the most acclaimed of contemporary Arab writers. In 2001, Season of Migration to the North was selected by the Arab Literary Academy in Damascus as the most important Arab novel of the twentieth century. Denys JohnsonDavies has published more than twenty-five volumes of stories, novels, plays, and poetry translated from modern Arabic literature. He lives in Cairo.
1980/169 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-199-1
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In the Tavern of Life and Other Stories

Tawfiq al-Hakim, translated by William Maynard Hutchins [This] is the first collection of [al-Hakims] stories to be published in English, beautifully rendered by William Maynard Hutchins.... Whether they are inspired by Egyptian social conditions or by readings in the literary tradition, they consistently offer food for thought by their underlying serious analysis of ideas, even when they are comical, and by their critical views of reality.
WORLD LITERATURE TODAY

Return of the Spirit

a novel
Tawfiq al-Hakim,
translated by William Maynard Hutchins

This first collection of his stories to be published in English includes 27 of the authors best works written between 1927 and 1984.
1998/232 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-648-4 ISBN: 978-0-89410-649-1 LC: 95-19994 hc $40/31.95 pb $18.95/14.95

An admirable translation of an important work, well presented and annotated. It will assuredly serve to enhance Tawfiq al-Hakims already outstanding reputation in the West.
JOHN HAYWOOD, WORLD LITERATURE TODAY

The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories

Tayeb Salih, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies and illustrated by Ibrahim Salahi
This book ... has timelessness and universality ... humanity and abundant humor in all hues ... insights and worldliness and awareness. LONDON TRIBUNE Acclaimed in both its English translation and its original Arabic version, the title work in this collection has been made into a film, and a second piece, A Handful of Dates, is among the most anthologized of modern short stories.
1985/120 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-201-1
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Eminently readable.... Recommended for all academic collections, stories in this volume can be perused and analyzed by students of literature, literary form, and area studies at all levels. CHOICE For more than five decades, Tawfiq alHakim (18981987) was a dominant, influential, and controversial voice in modern Arabic and Egyptian literature.

Al-Hakims first novel tells the story of a young patriotic Egyptian artist in 19181919 Egypt. For some critics, this remains al-Hakims greatest novel, synthesizing Western and Islamic cultural and philosophical systems and treating issues of social justice, changing mores, and religious conflicts. First published in Arabic in 1933.
1990/288 pages ISBN: 978-0-89410-426-8 LC: 83-51167 pb $16.50/12.95

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