Literature – August 2012
Literature
- After sex? : on writing since queer theory / edited by Janet Halley and Andrew Parker.
- Feminism in West African novel / M. Farida Begum.
- The negritude moment : explorations in francophone African and Caribbean literature and thought / F. Abiola Irele.
- Neo-imperialism in children’s literature about Africa : a study of contemporary fiction / by Yulisa Amadu Maddy, Donnarae MacCann.
- The Oxford India anthology of Bengali literature / edited by Kalpana Bardhan. [Vol.2 to follow]
- Transplanted imaginaries : literatures of new climes / edited by K.T. Sunitha.
- Postcolonial ecologies : literatures of the environment / edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley.
Drama
- Crosswinds : an anthology of Black dramatists in the diaspora / edited and with an introduction by William B. Branch.
- Decade : twenty new plays about 9/11 and its legacy / Samuel Adamson … [et al.].
- The great game : Afghanistan.
- The Methuen Drama book of plays by black British writers / edited and with an introduction by Lynette Goddard.
- Prayer Room. / by Shan Khan
- Six plays / Wole Soyinka.
- Via Dolorosa ; & When shall we live? / David Hare. [Arab-Israel conflict]
Fiction
- The Apex book of world SF / edited by Lavie Tidhar.
- As though she were sleeping / Elias Khoury ; translated by Humphrey Davies.
- Origins of love / by Kishwar Desai.
- Pao / by Kerry Young.
- So the path does not die / Pede Hollist.
- Smokewater / by Ibne Safi ; translated from the Urdu by Shamshur Rahman Faruqi.
- When she was queen / M G Vassanji.
Poetry
- Gitanjali : song offerings / Rabindranath Tagore ; a new translation by William Radice with an introduction and a new text of Tagore’s translation based on his manuscript.
- Poetry of the Taliban / translated by Mirwais Rahmany & Hamid Stanikzai ; edited and introduced by Alex Strick van Linschoten & Felix Kuehn ; preface by Faisal Devji.
- Singing the Kyrgyz Manas : Saparbek Kasmambetov’s recitations of epic poetry / edited by Howard Keith.
- The tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen : Siam’s great folk epic of love and war / translated and edited by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit ; illustrated by Muangsing Janchai.
- Women’s voices from West Africa : an anthology of songs from the Sahel / edited by Aissata G. Sidikou and Thomas A. Hale.
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