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Unreasonable histories : nativism, multiracial lives, and the genealogical imagination in British Africa / Christopher J. Lee. Durham : Duke University Press, 2015. ALEX DT32.5.L44 2015

The African diaspora : slavery, modernity, and globalization / Toyin Falola. Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2013. ALEX DT16.5.F35 201

Screens and veils : Maghrebi women's cinema / Florence Martin

SA ePublications Humanities and Social Sciences Collection

A comprehensive, searchable collection of full-text electronic journals from South Africa with broad multidisciplinary coverage of the social sciences and humanities. Journals in the fields of communications, education, history, library & information science, linguistics, literature, music, political science, psychology, sociology, and other disciplines are included.

The Cambridge history of African and Caribbean literature / edited by F. Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

• Africa and orality by Liz Gunner
• The folktale and its extensions by Kwesi Yankah
• Festivals, ritual, and drama in Africa by Tejumola Olaniyan
• Arab and Berber oral traditions in North Africa by Sabra Webber
• Heroic and praise poetry in South Africa by Lupenga Mphande
• African oral epics by Isidore Okpewho
• The oral tradition in the African diaspora by Maureen Warner-Lewis
• Carnival and the folk origins of West Indian drama by Keith Q. Warner
• Africa and writing by Alain Ricard
• Ethiopian literature by Teodros Kiros
• African literature in Arabic by Farida Abu-Haidar
• The Swahili literary tradition: an intercultural heritage by Alamin M. Mazrui
• Africa and the European Renaissance by Sylvie Kandé
• The literature of slavery and abolition by Moira Ferguson
• Discourses of empire by Robert Eric Livingston
• African-language literatures of southern Africa by Daniel P. Kunene
• Gikuyu literature: development from early Christian writings to Ngũgĩ's later novels by Ann Biersteker
• The emergence of written Hausa literature by Ousseina Alidou
• Literature in Yorùbá: poetry and prose; traveling theater and modern drama by Karin Barber
• African literature and the colonial factor by Simon Gikandi
• The formative journals and institutions by Milton Krieger
• Literature in Afrikaans by Ampie Coetzee