African Studies Fall 2020
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A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa
A History of Tourism in Africa
Exoticization, Exploitation, and Enrichment Todd Cleveland
Edited by Joel Beinin, Bassam Haddad & Sherene Seikaly
Africa in World History January 2021 220pp 9780821424339 £22.99 / $28.95 PB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures February 2021 328pp 9781503614475 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503613836 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Takes readers on a journey through the dynamics of Africa’s tourist history from the nineteenth century to the present to illuminate and Challenges conventional wisdom on the dynamics challenge deeply ingrained (mis)perceptions of capitalism in the Middle East and North Africa. about the continent and its peoples.
At Penpoint
Blackness in Morocco
African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War Monica Popescu
Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture Cynthia J. Becker
Theory in Forms September 2020 272pp 12 illus. 9781478009405 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478008514 £83.00 / HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2020 304pp 72 B-W Illustrations, 12 Color Plates 9781517909390 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781517909383 £99.00 / $120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century, showing how the United States and the Soviet Union’s efforts to further their geopolitical and ideological goals influenced literary practices.
Shows how Gnawa emerged as a practice associated with Blackness and enslavement by reviewing visual representation and musical traditions from the late nineteenth century to the present. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Genetic Afterlives
Hoarding Memory
Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa Noah Tamarkin
Covering the Wounds of the Algerian War Amy L. Hubbell
Theory in Forms September 2020 280pp 27 illus. 9781478009689 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478008828 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
December 2020 192pp 8 figures 9781496214027 £41.00 / $50.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Analyzes the work of Algerianborn French creators, positioning hoarding as a theoretical framework to examine the productive and destructive nature of clinging to memory through their respective modes of expression.
Illustrates how Lemba people in South Africa give their own meanings to the results of DNA tests that substantiated their ancestral connections to Jews and use them to manage their competing Jewish, African, and South African identities.
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Hybrid Anxieties
Media Primitivism
Queering the French-Algerian War and Its Postcolonial Legacies Christine Quinan
Technological Art in Africa Delinda Collier
The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas October 2020 312pp 79 illustrations, incl. 16 in color 9781478009696 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478008835 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality December 2020 282pp 6 photographs, 1 illustration 9781496224262 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781496206817 £82.00 / $99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural.
Hybrid Anxieties analyzes intertwined and composite aspects of identities and textual forms in the wake of the French-Algerian War.
Mozambique’s Samora Machel
Nostalgia after Apartheid
A Life Cut Short Allen F. Isaacman & Barbara S. Isaacman Foreword by Albie Sachs
Disillusionment, Youth, and Democracy in South Africa Amber R. Reed
Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development November 2020 258pp 9780268108779 £50.00 / $60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Ohio Short Histories of Africa September 2020 258pp 9780821424230 £13.99 / $17.95 PB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
A unique approach on how the attempted postapartheid reforms have failed rural Black South Africans, and how this failure has actually led to a nostalgia for apartheid.
Samora Machel held a reputation as a revolutionary hero to the oppressed. Three decades after his death, for many Mozambicans his memory lives on as a beacon of hope.
Sports in Africa, Past and Present
Edited by Todd Cleveland, Tarminder Kaur & Gerard Akindes
October 2020 256pp 9780821424254 £48.00 / $60.00 HB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through the prism of sports and from a range of scholarly perspectives, this anthology offers insight into the varied and shifting experiences of African athletes, fans, communities, and postcolonial states.
The Albert Memmi Reader
Albert Memmi Edited by Jonathan Judaken & Michael Lejman
France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization February 2021 384pp 9781496203236 £66.00 / $80.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
One of the great thinkers of the twentieth century’s insights on the legacies of the colonial era, critical theories of race, and his own story as a French writer of Tunisian and Jewish descent.
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The Laziness Myth
The Yoruba
Narratives of Work and the Good Life in South Africa Christine Jeske
A New History Akinwumi Ogundiran
November 2020 440pp 37 b&w illus., 8 color plates 9780253051493 £41.00 / $40.00 PB 9780253051486 £86.00 / $100.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
December 2020 240pp 3 b&w halftones, 2 b&w line drawings 9781501752513 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781501752506 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue Confluence in present-day Nigeria to becoming one of the most populous cultural groups on the African continent.
Offers evidence of the laziness myth’s harsh consequences and insights into how to challenge it with other South African narratives of a good life. Will stimulate discussion on creative possibilities for seeking the good life in and out of employment, in South Africa and elsewhere.
African Kings and Black Slaves
Clémence Pinaud
Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic Herman L. Bennett
February 2021 336pp 6 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 3 maps 9781501753008 £15.99 / $19.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Early Modern Americas March 2020 240pp 9780812224627 £17.99 / $22.50 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Traces the rise of a predatory state during civil war in southern Sudan and its transformation into a violent Dinka ethnocracy after the region’s formal independence. That new state, Pinaud argues, waged genocide against non-Dinka civilians in 2013-2017.
Examining early modern African-European encounters, offers a reappraisal of the dominant depiction of these exchanges as being solely mediated through the slave trade and racial difference.
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Recent highlight
War and Genocide in South Sudan
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