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The Battle of Normandy: The Falaise GapJames Sidney Lucas and James Barker The Battle of the Falaise Pocket was a disaster for the Germans in August 1944. This books sets the battle in the context of Allied Strategy in Northern Europe. Having set the scene, the readers is led through each phase of the action. The particular strength is that it draws heavily on German sources giving the reader a penetrating insight into an army trapped in a killing ground. More > |  |
A Dance of Masks: Senghor, Achebe, and SoyinkaJonathan A. Peters Peters searches for themes about African self-identity by exploring images of the mask in the poetry of Senghor, the fiction of Achebe, and the drama of Soyinka. His focus is not on the mask as a physical object, but as a concept—a dynamic interplay that involves both the mask and its wearer. Within this interplay, he finds important insights about Africanness as defined by three of the More > | |
Fire: Six Writers from Angola, Mozambique and Cape VerdeDonald Burness Because of, and at times in spite of, the distinct quality of Portuguese colonial policy, an original and vibrant lusophone literature exists today in Africa. Burness introduces the too-little- known work of Angola’s Luandino Viera, Agostinho Neto, Geraldo Bessa Victor, and Mario Antonio, Cape Verde’s Baltasar Lopes, and Mozambique’s Luis Bernardo Honwana. More > | |
Critical Perspectives on V.S. NaipaulRobert D. Hamner, editor This collection combines articles by Naipaul himself, reflecting his developing ideas from 1958 through the mid-1970s, with fourteen perceptive essays representing his reception among critics.
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Arabs and Israelis: A DiaglogueSaul Friedlander and Mamoud Hussein, translated by Paul Auster and moderated by Jean Lacouture |  |
The Friar's, Summoner's, and Pardoner's Tales from the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerN.R. Havely, editor | |
The Story of Africa from the Earliest TimesA.J. Wills |  |
Protest and Conflict in African LiteratureCosmo Pieterse and Donald Munro, editors | |
Contemporary African Art: The Catalogue of an Exhibition of Contemporary African Art Held at the Camden Arts Centre, LondonCamden Arts Centre | |
Gender and Literary VoiceJanet Todd, editor A lively debate on the question of the feminine voice in literature. Writers examined include Louise Bogan, Olive Schreiner, Hazel Hall, May Sarton, Edith Wharton, Lisa Alther, and Margaret Drabble. More > |  |