Annalisa Oboe

Elisa Bordin

This is the first full-length book on the work of ‘global Igbo’ writer Chris Abani. The volume dedicates a chapter to each of Abani’s fiction books, the two novellas Becoming Abigail (2006) and Song for Night (2007), the three novels GraceLand (2004), The Virgin of Flames (2007), and The Secret History of Las Vegas (2014), which are read against the grain of Abani’s most important essays and poetical production. By combining close readings and more theoretical reflections, this volume provides a significant insight for both scholars and students interested in the literature produced by the emerging African voices in the twentieth-first century, in the debate about human rights, and in general in how aesthetics is deeply linked with ethics.

Chris Abani

A collection of essays that deal extensively with the work of Mudrooroo; contributors treat questions of identity and representation; Mudrooroo's work is read through the lenses of such perspectives as psychanalysis, postmodernism, postcolonialism, deconstruction and queer theory.

Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo

Mongrel Signatures

Anna Scacchi

This book focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as questions of identity, political and human rights, cosmopolitics, and mnemo-history.

Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections

Recharting the Black Atlantic

Shaul Bassi

Modern ideas of freedom and human rights have been repeatedly contested and are hotly debated at the beginning of the third millennium in response to new theories, needs, and changes in the world today. This volume offers culturally diverse responses to the contemporary idea of ‘freedom’ from the literatures and the arts of the postcolonial world.

Annalisa Oboe

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