Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anais Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be "the One," the lover who would satisfy her insatiable hunger for connection. In the middle looms a period Nin describes as "hell," during which she ......
Person, Family, and Nation in Colonial Bechuanaland, 1880s-1950s
In Morafe, Khumisho Moguerane has written a luminous exploration of two generations of the prominent Molema family. They were "border people" who straddled what would become present-day South Africa and Botswana. The book begins in the 1880s at the frontier of the new British territories of Bechuanaland (North West and Northern Cape provinces) and ......
This groundbreaking study of Moroccan modernism in the visual arts contextualizes the work in terms of postcolonial struggles and a constellation of contemporary artistic movements. In the years after independence, new art forms and practices flourished at the Casablanca Ecole des beaux-arts, transforming the colonial relic into a wellspring of ......
This groundbreaking study of Moroccan modernism in the visual arts contextualizes the work in terms of postcolonial struggles and a constellation of contemporary artistic movements. In the years after independence, new art forms and practices flourished at the Casablanca Ecole des beaux-arts, transforming the colonial relic into a wellspring of ......
A groundbreaking study of Yoruba-language print culture in colonial Lagos Much Matter in a Penny Paper offers the first in-depth exploration of the emergence of an African-language print culture in early twentieth-century Lagos, Nigeria. Focusing on the 1910s and 1920s-a period of rapid experimentation and innovation-Karin Barber examines the ......
A groundbreaking study of Yoruba-language print culture in colonial Lagos Much Matter in a Penny Paper offers the first in-depth exploration of the emergence of an African-language print culture in early twentieth-century Lagos, Nigeria. Focusing on the 1910s and 1920s-a period of rapid experimentation and innovation-Karin Barber examines the ......
Sex, Gender, and Nation in the Struggle Against Apartheid
The first book-length study to reveal how women in exile shaped South Africa's antiapartheid movement This groundbreaking book explores the often-overlooked role of women in South Africa's liberation movements, particularly within the African National Congress during its years in exile from 1960 to 1990. It examines how transformations in gender ......
Sex, Gender, and Nation in the Struggle Against Apartheid
The first book-length study to reveal how women in exile shaped South Africa's antiapartheid movement This groundbreaking book explores the often-overlooked role of women in South Africa's liberation movements, particularly within the African National Congress during its years in exile from 1960 to 1990. It examines how transformations in gender ......
A Gendered History of Rural Violence and Shame in Apartheid South Africa
No Ordinary Letter reconstructs the intellectual world of rural South African women who, in 1959, mounted determined campaigns across Natal to resist the expanding policies of apartheid. Challenging Bantu Authorities, detrimental agricultural schemes, restrictions on movement, and the extension of pass laws to women, these organizers drew on ......
