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Pate, Alexs D. West of Rehoboth: A novel. Perennial, 2002.

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West of Rehoboth: A novel. William Morrow, 2001.

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Nwahunanya, Chinyere. Tragedy in the Anglophone West African novel. Springfield Publishers, 2003.

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Zabus, Chantal J. The African palimpsest: Indigenization of language in the West African europhone novel. Rodopi, 1991.

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Lewis, Ora M. Seeds in the wind: A historical novel, Louisiana (1565-1865). Maranatha Press, 2000.

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The evolution of the West Indian's image in the Afro-American novel. Associated Faculty Press, 1986.

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The Third World novel of expatriation: A study of emigre fiction by Indian, West African, and Caribbean writers. Sterling Publishers, 1989.

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Trice, Dawn Turner. An eighth of August: A novel. Crown Publishers, 2000.

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Brand, Dionne. At the full and change of the moon: A novel. Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1999.

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Brand, Dionne. At the Full and Change of the Moon: A Novel. Grove Press, 1999.

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Brand, Dionne. At the full and change of the moon: A novel. Vintage Canada, 2000.

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Fatou: Return to Harlem : a novel. Harlem Book Center, 2006.

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NDiaye, Marie. Three strong women: A novel. Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

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Sounding off: Rhythm, music, and identity in West African and Caribbean francophone novels. Temple University Press, 2009.

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Glaser, Jason. The Buffalo soldiers and the American West. Capstone Press, 2006.

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Laurence, Laluyaux, and Stanton Gareth, eds. The Babel guide to French fiction in English translation. Boulevard Books, 1996.

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Pate, Alexs D. West of Rehoboth: A Novel. Harper Perennial, 2002.

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Bangura, Ahmed S. Islam and the West African Novel: The Politics of Representation. L. Rienner Publishers, 2000.

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Robotham, Rosemarie. ZACHARY'S WINGS: A Novel. Scribner, 1999.

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Zabus, Chantal. The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel. (Cross/Cultures). Rodopi, 2007.

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McCrumb, Sharyn. The unquiet grave: A novel. 2017.

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Trice, Dawn Turner. An Eighth of August: A Novel. Anchor, 2002.

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At the Full and Change of the Moon: A Novel. Vintage Canada, 2000.

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Booker, M. Keith, and Dubravka Juraga. The Caribbean Novel in English: An Introduction (Studies in African Literature). Heinemann, 2000.

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Booker, M. Keith, and Dubravka Juraga. The Caribbean Novel in English: An Introduction (Studies in African Literature). Heinemann, 2000.

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Watson, Tim. “Jumble Sales Are the Same the World Over”. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190852672.003.0002.

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This chapter analyzes the novels of the British writer Barbara Pym, which are often read as cozy tales of English middle-class postwar life but which, I argue, are profoundly influenced by the work Pym carried out as an editor of the journal Africa at the International African Institute in London, where she worked for decades. She used ethnographic techniques to represent social change in a postwar, decolonizing, non-normative Britain of female-headed households, gay and lesbian relationships, and networks of female friendship and civic engagement. Pym’s novels of the 1950s implicitly criticize the synchronic, functionalist anthropology of kinship tables that dominated the discipline in Britain, substituting an interest in a new anthropology that could investigate social change. Specific anthropological work on West African social changes underpins Pym’s English fiction, including several journal articles that Pym was editing while she worked on her novels.

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Watson, Tim. “Every Guy Has His Own Africa”. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190852672.003.0004.

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This chapter analyzes the writer Saul Bellow as an anthropological novelist, focusing on his African novel, Henderson the Rain King. Bellow incorporates ethnographic source material, including some from his erstwhile teacher Melville Herskovits, but Henderson is a bumbling caricature of the academic fieldworker. Nevertheless, the novel asks essential anthropological questions about how culture determines human behavior and thought and how cultural patterns change. I compare Bellow’s work with C. P. Snow’s The Two Cultures, which promoted the ideas of technical know-how and knowledge transfer from the West to the developing world that Bellow satirizes. The chapter ends with an analysis of the South African writer Bessie Head, whose story “The Woman from America” highlights the dangers of development projects that fail to pay attention to local conditions, just as Henderson does.

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Shields, David S. The Atlantic World, the Senses, and the Arts. Edited by Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199210879.013.0008.

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In 1825, the father of gastronomy, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, proposed that the perfection of the senses in Western history coincided with the European encounter with America. How exactly did novel sensations of pleasure and pain change people on both sides of the Atlantic? Smelling, tasting, hearing, seeing, and touching changed profoundly for those who experienced the opening of the Atlantic world. This article uses the classical ‘five senses’ organisation of Western physiology as an organising principle, doing so for convenience's sake rather than to suggest that it operated as a universal structure of sensing in every culture of Europe, Africa, and the Americas. For smelling, it concentrates on the East Indies and West Indies, for hearing on Africa and Ibero-America, for tasting Central America and the West Indies (with a side glance at Africa), and for seeing north Europe and North America.

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Saylor, Eric. Race, “Realism,” and Fate in Frederick Delius’s Koanga. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036781.003.0005.

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This chapter examines how race intersects with questions of “realism” and fate in Frederick Delius's Koanga, which features black characters as its protagonists as well as examples of African American folk music. Based on an episode from George Washington Cable's novel The Grandissimes, Koanga is a nineteenth-century story of love, jealousy, and betrayal centered on Koanga, an enslaved West African prince and voudon priest, and Palmyra, a quadroon maidservant. This chapter first provides a background on Koanga's genesis and textual variations before discussing its seeming contradiction: the dramatic portrayal of Koanga and Palmyra as a reflection of period beliefs about the Otherness of blacks; and its treatment of the exoticism of “blackness,” both physical and musical, as an attractive quality integral to achieving its dramatic and musical aims. It argues that Koanga revives many familiar tropes of racial exoticism and manifests troubling new resonances concerning questions of destiny and free will.

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David, Deirdre. Prologue. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198729617.003.0001.

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Pamela Hansford Johnson’s childhood was spent in a theatrical household in Battersea. Her grandfather had been treasurer to Sir Henry Irving, and her mother and her aunts at one time or another were all on the stage. Her father was largely absent when she was growing up since he was a Chief Railway Storekeeper on the African Gold Coast. He died when she was eleven years old. She attended a Clapham grammar school where she was an excellent student but for financial reasons was forced to leave school and take a course in shorthand-typing. While working in a West End bank for four years, she published her first novel and began to mix with a crowd of young writers. Exotically good-looking, she attracted many admirers, among them the conductor Leopold Stokowski.

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Buffalo Soldiers and the American West. Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2006.

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The Buffalo Soldiers and the American West. Capstone Press, 2007.

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Chodat, Robert. Sociology to the Scientists. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190682156.003.0004.

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Unlike Percy and Robinson, Ellison shows minimal interest in religious questions, and in this sense can be seen as part of a larger anticlerical project among some twentieth-century African-American writers. Unlike many other secular black intellectuals, however, he scorns the social sciences. His nonfiction repeatedly distinguishes meaning from matter, purposeful action from bodily motion, and continually highlights both “improvisation” and “black and white fraternity”—concepts that align him both with the pragmatism of his mentor Kenneth Burke and place him in a longstanding tradition of republican sociopolitical thought. His fiction, however, repeatedly emphasizes just how vexed such terms are in the context of modern American life. Invisible Man portrays a world governed unrelentingly by determinism and social–scientific theorizing, and his second novel went unfinished in part because he struggles to portray the mutual recognition that his essays insist is needed between black and white culture.

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In a Free State: A Novel With Two Supporting Narratives. Picador, 2002.

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Jonsson, Herbert, Lovisa Berg, Chatarina Edfeldt, and Bo G. Jansson, eds. Narratives Crossing Borders: The Dynamics of Cultural Interaction. Stockholm University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.16993/bbj.

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Which is the identity of a traveler who is constantly on the move between cultures and languages? What happens with stories when they are transmitted from one place to another, when they are retold, remade, translated and re-translated? What happens with the scholars themselves, when they try to grapple with the kaleidoscopic diversity of human expression in a constantly changing world? These and related questions are, if not given a definite answer, explored in the chapters of this anthology. Its overall topic, narratives that pass over national, language and ethnical borders include studies about transcultural novels, poetry, drama and the narratives of journalism. There is a broad geographic diversity, not only in the anthology as a whole, but also in each of the single contributions. This in turn demand a multitude of theoretical and methodological approaches, which cover a spectrum of concepts from such different sources as post-colonial studies, linguistics, religion, aesthetics, art and media studies, often going beyond the well-known Western frameworks. The works of authors like Miriam Toews, Yoko Tawada, Javier Moreno, Leila Abouela, Marguerite Duras, Kyoko Mori, Francesca Duranti, Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, Rībi Hideo, and François Cheng are studied from a variety of perspectives. Other chapters deal with code-switching in West-african novels, border-crossing in the Japanese noh drama, translational anthologies of Italian literature, urban legends on the US-Mexico border, migration in German children's books, and war trauma in poetry. Most of the chapters are case studies, and may thus be of interest, not only for specialists, but also for the general reader.

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Hedges, Paul. Religious Hatred. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350162907.

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Why does religion inspire hatred? Why do people in one religion sometimes hate people of another religion, and also why do some religions inspire hatred from others? This book shows how scholarly studies of prejudice, identity formation, and genocide studies can shed light on global examples of religious hatred. The book is divided into four parts, focusing respectively on: theories of prejudice and violence; historical developments of Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and race; contemporary Western Antisemitism and Islamophobia; and, prejudices beyond the West in the Islamic, Buddhist, and Hindu traditions. Each part ends with a special focus section. Key features include: - A compelling synthesis of theories of prejudice, identity, and hatred to explain Islamophobia and Antisemitism. - An innovative theory of human violence and genocide which explains the link to prejudice. - Case studies of both Western Antisemitism and Islamophobia in history and today, alongside global studies of Islamic Antisemitism and Hindu and Buddhist Islamophobia - Integrates discussion of race and racialisation as aspects of Islamophobic and Antisemitic prejudice in relation to their framing in religious discourses. - Accessible for general readers and students, it can be employed as a textbook for students or read with benefit by scholars for its novel synthesis and theories. The book focuses on Antisemitism and Islamophobia, both in the West and beyond, including examples of prejudices and hatred in the Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions. Drawing on examples from Europe, North America, MENA, South and Southeast Asia, and Africa, Paul Hedges points to common patterns, while identifying the specifics of local context. Religious Hatred is an essential guide for understanding the historical origins of religious hatred, the manifestations of this hatred across diverse religious and cultural contexts, and the strategies employed by activists and peacemakers to overcome this hatred.

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Deadwood Dick hc. Chronicle Books, 2009.

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Tignor, Robert L. W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691202617.001.0001.

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W. Arthur Lewis was one of the foremost intellectuals, economists, and political activists of the twentieth century. This book, the first intellectual biography of Lewis, traces Lewis's life from its beginnings on the small island of St. Lucia to Lewis's arrival at Princeton University in the early 1960s. A chronicle of Lewis's unfailing efforts to promote racial justice and decolonization, it provides a history of development economics as seen through the life of one of its most important founders. If there were a record for the number of “firsts” achieved by one man during his lifetime, Lewis would be a contender. He was the first black professor in a British university and also at Princeton University and the first person of African descent to win a Nobel Prize in a field other than literature or peace. His writings, which included his book The Theory of Economic Growth, were among the first to describe the field of development economics. Quickly gaining the attention of the leadership of colonized territories, he helped develop blueprints for the changing relationship between the former colonies and their former rulers. He made significant contributions to Ghana's quest for economic growth and the West Indies' desire to create a first-class institution of higher learning serving all of the Anglophone territories in the Caribbean. This book, based on Lewis's personal papers, provides a new view of this renowned economist and his impact on economic growth in the twentieth century. It will intrigue not only students of development economics but also anyone interested in colonialism and decolonization, and justice for the poor in third-world countries.

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Keenoy, Ray, Laurence Laluyaux, and Gareth Stanton. Babel Guide to French Fiction in Translation (Good Book Guide (Boulevard (Firm)).). Boulevard Books, 1998.

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