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Books: Text Books: African and Middle Eastern
Readings in African Popular Fiction:by International African Institute and Stephanie Newell Available from Amazon $24.95 On 7-21-2006 
See Item's Page Book Description " . . . an essential resource for scholars interested in African writing and culture, and . . . postcolonial studies." --Lyn Innes Readings in African Popular Fiction explores the social, political, and economic contexts of popular narratives by bringing new and classic essays by important scholars in African literature together with eight primary texts. This lively volume includes selections by Alex LaGuma, Bernth Lindfors, and Dorothy Driver.
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Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (New Middle Ages)by Jeffrey Cohen Available from Amazon $31.95 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Book Description Combining critical work in feminism, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies, the essays explore the relationship between Christian and masculine identity; children, penance, and sexuality; heroism, castration, and eunuchry; education; the relationship between male and animal bodies; discipline and gender; Chaucer; transvestism and knighthood; drag and blackface; contemporary identity theory; and other scholarly subjects. About The Author English and Human Sciences at George Washington University. His publications include Monster Theory: Reading Culture, Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages, and The Postcolonial Middle Ages. Bonnie Wheeler directs the Medieval Studies Program at Southern Methodist University. She is series editor of The New Middle Ages and edits the journal Arthuriana. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition. |
Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Filmby Oliver Leaman Available from Amazon $225.00 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page From Library Journal Edited by Leaman (philosophy, Univ. of Kentucky), this welcome addition to film reference is divided into nine chapters covering countries throughout North Africa and the Middle East, including Central Asia (the former Soviet republics), Egypt, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, The Maghreb, Palestine, and Turkey. Each chapter is written by a specialist in a particular region and gives the history and major issues of its filmmaking, biographical information on leading directors and actors, and annotated filmographies of significant works. Information varies widely from chapter to chapter, with some detailing audience size and distribution and others focusing on themes. Chapter length also varies significantly, dependent upon the strength of the nation's film industry (e.g., the chapter on Israel's cinema runs 140 pages, while that on Palestine's runs only 15). The transliteration of names and titles is irregular, but this should pose little trouble to most readers. Each chapter concludes with a brief bibliography, and short name, film, and general indexes make up the end matter. Sixty black-and-white photos from select films are also included. This is a useful addition to the growing library on non-Western cinema, which includes Sharon Russell's Guide to African Cinema (Greenwood, 1998), Lizbeth Malkmus and Roy Armes's Arab and African Film Making (o.p.), and Viola Shafik's Arab Cinema (American University in Cairo, 1998). Highly recommended for all libraries supporting film studies. Anthony J. Adam, Prairie View A&M Univ., TX Copyright 2001 Reed business Information, Inc. Product Review A unique reference source [that] focuses on a neglected body of non-western film in a serious, scholarly fashion. The Companion encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film does film students a real service. It pulls together information on a diverse but geographically related body of filmmaking and makes it accessible in one well-organized volume. Academic libraries serious about supporting film study programs will want it in their collections. –Against the Grain, June 2002 The text is enhanced by stills, easy-to-read typeface, sturdy binding, and helpful indexing. This work brings together material unavailable elsewhere in one place, much of it hitherto unavailable in English.[It] has no English-language rivals, and hence will be essential for any library wanting up-to-date, thoughtful coverage of cinema in the Middle and North Africa. General and academic readers, lower-division undergraduate through faculty.. As it pretty much goes without saying, the Companion encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Filmis nothing if not timely. It's also impressively comprehensiveand well researched, covering not only the well-trodden terrain of Iran and Egypt but, reading like the New York Times these days, also central Asia, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, the Maghreb, Palestine, and Turkey. This is a useful addition to the growing library on non-Western cinemahighly recommended for all libraries supporting film studies. |
Prospects for Middle Eastern and North African Economies: From Boom to Bust and Back?by Nemat Shafik Available from Amazon $105.00 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Book Description This volume analyzes the issues determining the Arab region's economic future. |
Global Dimensions of the African Diasporaby African Diaspora Studies Institute 1979 Available from Amazon $33.95 On 7-21-2006
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African Development Report 2004 (African Development Report)by The African Development Bank List Price: $39.95 Available from Amazon $28.94 On 7-21-2006
See Item's Page Book Description The African Development Report 2004 is the sixteenth annual survey of economic and social progress in Africa. The Report provides comprehensive analysis of the State of the African Economy, examining development policy issues affecting the economic prospects of the continent. |
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