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SUNY Press, 2009. Clean and unmarked in full cloth binding. 346pp. Dust jacket has creasing to front flap, is offered now in a new mylar cover. The profound effects of colonialism and its legacies on African cultures have led postcolonial scholars of recent African literature to characterize contemporary African novels as, first and foremost, responses to colonial domination by the West. In Africa Writes Back to Self, Evan Maina Mwangi argues instead that the novels are primarily engaged in conversation with each other, particularly over emergent gender issues such as the representation of homosexuality and the disenfranchisement of women by male-dominated governments. He covers the work of canonical novelists Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as popular writers such as Grace Ogot, David Maillu, Promise Okekwe, and Rebeka Njau. Mwangi examines the novels' self-reflexive fictional strategies and their potential to refigure the dynamics of gender and… Leer más

Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1969. Covers have shelf wear, including a crease to upper corner front cover. Binding tight. Internally unmarked. 371pp. Offers criticism from some of the most distinguished twentieth-century British and American writers, critics, and scholars, including Virginia Woolf, Walter De La Mare, William Empson, Edmund Wilson, Henry Seidel Canby, and Harry Morgan Ayers.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

New York: Atheneum, 1980. 1st printing of the Enlarged Edition. Tight, square and unmarked. Full blue cloth binding. xiii, 687pp. Very nice unclipped jacket is slightly rubbed, now in a new mylar cover. This enlarged edition, one hundred pages longer than the original volume, has added essays to many of the original chapters, dealing withy new work by the poets originally examined but leaving the original text unchanged. Comprehensive studies of 41 American poets.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

The Hague: Mouton, 1968. Full tan cloth binding. Clean and unmarked. 341pp. Dust jacket, very slightly rubbed, in new mylar cover. Takes an especial look at The Hound & Horn, The Symposium, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review, and Partisan Review.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Ohio University Press, 1979. Full cloth binding. 309pp. Jacket is moderately rubbed and sunned.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Alpha Academic Books, 1979. Tight, square and unmarked in full blue cloth binding. 134pp. Jacket is rubbed and with a chip to upper edge front, offered now in a new mylar cover. Includes material on: Anglo-Irish relations; Prejudice and tolerance in Ireland; Language policy and economic development in the Cetic Periphery, Hidden Ireland of Irish landlords; Sternesque elements in novels by Flann O'Brien; Yeats in Celtic Ireland; more.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Alpha Academic Books, 1975. Tight, square and unmarked in full red cloth binding. 118pp. Jacket is lightly rubbed and soiled, offered now in a new mylar cover. This first volume consists of lectures given to Cambridge University Hiberian Society during the year. Includes material on: Becket; Irish Education; Daniel Maclise; 19th Century Irish politics; Yeats' early drama; Placename research in Ireland, etc.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First trade edition hard cover with dust jacket, NF/VG. Clean, tight and unmarked copy mildly foxed to top edge. Dust jacket, slightly rubbed in fresh protective mylar. xii, 224 pp. Index. Nice copy of this classic.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

St. Martin's Press, 1989. 1st printing. Clean and unmarked. Full cloth binding. Dust jacket is slightly rubbed. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Henry Holt & Company, 1997. 1st printing. Crisp and unmarked, NF/NF. In a very nice unclipped jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Arcade Publishing, 2005. 1st printing. Tight and unmarked, NF/NF. 277pp. Jacket in a protective mylar cover.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Pantheon Books, 2005. 2nd printing. Tight and unmarked, VG/VG. 247pp. Dust jacket slightly rubbed.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Henry Holt and Co., 2009. 1st printing. Tight and unmarked. 370pp. Very nice unclipped jacket now in a new mylar cover.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1976. 1st printing. Square and unmarked copy in full cloth binding. xxxviii, 504pp. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed, with sunned and spotted spine. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. 1st printing. Crisp and unmarked. Full cloth binding. 198pp. Very nice jacket now in a new mylar cover.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. 1st printing. Tight and unmarked in full cloth binding. 126pp. In a very nice jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Oxford University Press, 1953. 3rd printing. Square and unmarked in full red cloth binding. xxxviii, 763pp. Price-clipped jacket is lightly rubbed and extremities, offered now in a new mylar cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Chicago: Swallow Press, 1977. 1st printing. Two remainder marks on bottom page edges, otherwise square and clean. 188pp. Good only jacket is price-clipped, worn, with a long tear to back panel.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Cambridge University Press, 1984. 1st paperback printing. Covers shelf rubbed. Tight and unmarked. 352pp.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

University of Toronto Press, 1994. 1st printing. A clean, crisp copy. No dj. Inscribed by Whitman on front flyleaf. Full cloth binding. 170pp.. Inscribed and Signed By Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.