The revised and updated edition of Modern Arabic takes this authoritative, concise linguistic description of the structure and use of modern Arabic to an invaluable new level. Clive Holes traces the development of the Arabic language from Classical Arabic, the written language u…
A Spanish grammar workbook
by Santamaría Iglesias, Esther
fromBlackwell reference grammars
"This is a guide to Arabic usage for students who have already acquired the basics of the language and wish to extend their knowledge. Focussing mainly on Modern Standard Arabic, it is divided into three clear sections on varieties of Arabic, grammar and vocabulary. 'Varieties o…
Embedded in the socio-political milieu of the country Anglophone Pakistani fiction provides a critical perspective on some of the important contemporary issues facing the country like feminism, class struggle, misuse of religious discourse, sectarianism, terrorism and the fragme…
Like any good public relations campaign, this dissertation aims to offer a persuasive interpretation of certain key facts. The facts, as I see them, are as follows: first, a great number of contemporary novels and poems explore the personal and social consequences of diasporic m…
For years, critics have used Black writers' interweaving of African-derived oral textual features and European written forms to reject the concept of the Great Divide between orality and writing in literacy studies. These critics primarily see the hybridized texts of writers of …
This dissertation examines the activities of three key national human rights commissions (NHRCs) in Anglophone Africa, to assess whether they are "deflectionist" or resourceful institutions for the protection and promotion of human rights. It conducts a study of the NHRCs in Ken…
My dissertation focuses on the persistence of national consciousness in postcolonial and contemporary British literatures. Theories of globalization after 1945 represent nationalism and culture as mutually exclusive and absolute terms. These theories project a heterogeneous, dec…
Postcolonial literary critics note persistently recurring representations of colonial violence in post-independence Anglophone African novels. I suggest that complex psychological and political processes of colonial trauma compel this narrative repetition. This dissertation juxt…