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Hardback. An overview of the Swahili novel, its place in a globalized world and a reflection on the status and dynamism of Kafka's concept of 'minor literature'. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2HCBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- James Currey United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847010797
- ISBN
- 9781847010797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.73
€ 98.73
Paperback. Num Pages: 332 pages, 8000 entries. BIC Classification: 2H; CBD; CF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 103 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Hippocrene Books
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780781802642
- ISBN
- 9780781802642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.61
€ 17.99
€ 16.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3,000+ entries. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2HC; CBDX; WTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780781810869
- ISBN
- 9780781810869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.51
€ 13.99
€ 13.51
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Hippocrene Books
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780781813563
- ISBN
- 9780781813563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.54
€ 15.99
€ 14.54
Paperback. The first truly continentally representative collection of modern African drama in any language, this Norton Critical Edition includes plays from Egypt, Algeria, the Republic of South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Kenya. Editor(s): Jeyifo, Biodun. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 672 pages, chronology, bibliog. BIC Classification: 1H; 2H; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 174 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393975291
- ISBN
- 9780393975291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.85
€ 26.99
€ 23.85
Paperback. This work provides a systematic and comprehensive reconstruction of proto-Afroasiatic. The book applies throughout the established canon and techniques of the historical-comparative method and incorporates up-to-date evidence from the distinctive African branches of the family. Series: UC Publications in Linguistics. Num Pages: 575 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2H; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 180 x 34. Weight in Grams: 944.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 575
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520097995
- ISBN
- 9780520097995
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 83.17€ 64.47
€ 83.17
€ 64.47
![Thera Marie Crane - A Grammar of Nzadi [B865]: A Bantu language of Democratic Republic of Congo - 9780520098862 - V9780520098862](https://www.kennys.ie/products/thumbs/9780520098862.jpg "Thera Marie Crane - A Grammar of Nzadi [B865]: A Bantu language of Democratic Republic of Congo - 9780520098862 - V9780520098862")
Paperback. Presents the documentation of Nzadi, a Bantu language spoken by fishermen along the Kasai River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This title covers the segmental phonology, tone system, morphology, and sentence structure, followed by appendices on the Nzadi people and history and on Proto-Bantu to Nzadi sound changes. Series: UC Publications in Linguistics. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2HCB; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520098862
- ISBN
- 9780520098862
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.66€ 43.58
€ 54.66
€ 43.58
Paperback. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naive vis-a-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-a-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues the author, is their disposition toward Utopia or the horizon of a radical reconfiguration of social relations. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2H; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691122120
- ISBN
- 9780691122120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.47€ 42.58
€ 53.47
€ 42.58
Paperback. Series: African Literature Today. 173 pages, 17, 17 black and white. Editor(s): Emenyonu, Ernest N. Brings together experiences of teachers of African literature from around the world in the context of technological change. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1H; 2AB; 2H; DSBH; JNU. Dimension: 211 x 139 x 12. Weight: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 173
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847015112
- ISBN
- 9781847015112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.04
€ 27.04
Paperback. Describes what might be called the workers' culture of Shaba, through analyses of communicative (sociolinguistic) and cognitive (ethnosemantic) aspects of language use. In this study, inquiry will be directed to the past, and it will, for many reasons, have to reach into a past which is rather remote from present-day Shaba Swahili. Num Pages: 212 pages, 1M. BIC Classification: 1H; 2H; 3JH; 3JJ; CF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 68.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780520076259
- ISBN
- 9780520076259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.93
€ 34.99
€ 25.93
Hardcover. This book describes the lexical phonology and morphology of the verb stem in Ciyao. Series: Stanford Monographs in African Languages. Num Pages: 250 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 2HCB; CFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 637.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Centre for the Study of Language & Information United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 74th ed.
- SKU
- V9781575862477
- ISBN
- 9781575862477
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 38.52
€ 48.99
€ 38.52
paperback. The Akan language is a group of dialects within the larger Niger-Congo language family, whose other branches include Swahili, Yoruba, Igbo, Fula, and Zulu. The subgroup of Akan known as Twi includes the dialects of Akuapem and Asante. This guide features Asante Twi. Editor(s): Hippocrene Books. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2H; CBDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 105. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Hippocrene Books
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780781813297
- ISBN
- 9780781813297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.61
€ 17.99
€ 16.61
Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation: The Corresponde...
. Ed(S): Graham, Shane; Walters, J.
paperback. This collection combines previously unpublished letters between African-American poet Langston Hughes and South-African writers of the 1950s and 1960s with scholarly commentary and criticism. The letters tell a fascinating story of the civil rights movement and apartheid and the struggle to overthrow it. Editor(s): Graham, Shane; Walters, J. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DSBH; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349287499
- ISBN
- 9781349287499
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. For nearly a decade, writers' collectives such as Kwani Trust in Kenya and Femrite, the Ugandan women writers' association, have dramatically reshaped the East African literary scene. This text extends the purview of postcolonial literary studies by providing the long overdue critical inquiry that these writers so urgently deserve. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DSBH5; HPD; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349291748
- ISBN
- 9781349291748
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DSBH5; HBJH; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349384914
- ISBN
- 9781349384914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
paperback. This book uses the uniquely positioned culture of East African Asians to reflect upon the most vexing issues in postcolonial literary studies today. By examining the local histories and discourses that underpin East African Asian literature, it opens up and reflects upon issues of alienation, modernity, migration, diaspora, memory and nationalism. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DSA; DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349442386
- ISBN
- 9781349442386
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Condition: New
€ 65.92
€ 65.92
Paperback. Featuring canonical Spanish American and Brazilian texts of the 1920s and 30s, Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature is an innovative analysis of the body as site of inscription for avant-garde objectives such as originality, subjectivity, and subversion. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AD; 2H; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349443635
- ISBN
- 9781349443635
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.86
€ 65.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DSBH5; HRA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349444342
- ISBN
- 9781349444342
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.46
€ 126.46
Paperback. Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature examines the popular literary stereotype, the tragic mulatto, from a transnational perspective. Mafe considers the ways in which specific South African and American writers have used this controversial literary character to challenge the logic of racial categorization. Num Pages: 195 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349473601
- ISBN
- 9781349473601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.56
€ 65.56
Paperback. Editor(s): Davis, C.; Johnson, D. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DSA; JFC; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 379.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349486441
- ISBN
- 9781349486441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.01
€ 127.01