Latin American Literature / African Literature

The Intersections of Storytelling and Journalism in Contemporary Literature

Liliana Chávez Díaz, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico Unpacking the precarious testimonial relationship between author and subject, Latin American Documentary Narratives covers a variety of nonfiction genres from the 1950s to the 2000s that address topics including social protests, dictatorships, natural disasters, crime and migration in Latin America. This book analyzes – and includes an appendix of interviews with – authors who have not previously been critically read together, from Gabriel García Márquez and Elena Poniatowska to more recent authors, such as Leila Guerriero and Santiago Roncagliolo, who are currently reshaping media and audiences in Latin America.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781501366017 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501366024 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501366031 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Haiti’s Literary Legacies

Romanticism and the Unthinkable Revolution

Edited by Kir Kuiken, SUNY Albany, USA & Deborah Elise White, Emory University, USA Haiti’s Literary Legacies unpacks the theoretical, historical and political resonance of the Haitian revolution across a multiplicity of European and American Romanticisms, including Haitian, British, French and German traditions. This volume works at the intersection of Romantic and Caribbean studies to outline the myriad ways that the politicized literature of the Romantic period engages the revolution in Haiti. Demonstrating the centrality of the Haitian revolution to the larger configuration of transnational Romantic writing, this collection articulates a literary legacy that speaks to our contemporary moment.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 240 pages HB 9781501366352 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501366338 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501366345 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic Nature, Disaster and Revolution in Latin America

Carlos Fonseca, Cambridge University, UK Through a study of philosophical, literary and artistic representations of three catastrophic figures – earthquakes, volcanoes and epidemics – this book investigates how nature and history intertwined during the violent aftermath of the Spanish American Wars of Independence. Engaging a variety of sources and protagonists, from Simón Bolívar’s manifestoes to Cesar Aira’s use of landscape in his novels, from the revolutionary role mosquitoes had within the Haitian Revolution to the role AIDS played in the writing of Reinaldo Arenas’ posthumous novel, Carlos Fonseca offers an original retelling of this foundational moment, recounting how history has become a site where the modern division between nature and culture collapses.

UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 208 pages • 6 bw illus PB 9781501370700 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501350634 ePub 9781501350641 • £76.69 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501350658 • £76.69 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation

Bola Dauda, Independent Scholar, UK & Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin, USA This timely and expansive introduction to Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate and social activist, shows how the author’s early years influence his life’s work and how his writing, in turn, informs his political engagement. Three sections covering his early life, his major texts and his place in history connect Soyinka’s legacy with global issues beyond the boarders of his own country, and indeed beyond the African continent. The volume looks at how Soyinka, one of Africa’s most successful and popular authors, uses his writing – plays, novels and memoirs, among others – to inform, mobilize and incite civil action.

UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 320 pages • 7 bw illus PB 9781501375750 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781501375767 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501375774 • £24.54 / $31.45 ePdf 9781501375781 • £24.54 / $31.45 Series: Black Literary and Cultural Expressions • Bloomsbury Academic

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