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The library collects books to support your studies. More recently we are purchasing mainly eBooks. This page presents three main categories of books: New Books, Prescribed Textbooks and Reference Books
You can find books in the library by using uKwazi. The video below will guide you on how to search for books and articles on uKwazi
Ebooks can be accessed by clicking on the relevant link on uKwazi. Physical books are shelved according to the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) System.
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World by
Discover the captivating world of 'Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World.' Delve into the paradoxical relationship between the portrayal of enslaved individuals and the oppressive system of chattel slavery. This groundbreaking book explores rare and enigmatic artworks, shedding light on the historical conditions that allowed their creation. Gain a deeper understanding of power dynamics during this era while unraveling the complexities of Western art through interdisciplinary perspectives.
Naturalizing Africa by
Discover a groundbreaking journey into African literature! This captivating book goes beyond traditional boundaries: (1) Explore the intricate web of human-nonhuman connections in diverse locations, expanding the realm of African literary studies; (2) Challenge conventional ideas of agency by delving into distributed and multifaceted forms of agency between humans and the environment; (3) Gain new insights into the interplay between violent resistance, ecological decline, and the legacy of liberation struggles, echoing the thought-provoking ideas of Frantz Fanon; and (4) Join the quest for alternative, sustainable ecosystems as part of a larger visionary project. Unleash your imagination, broaden your horizons, and be transported into a world of possibilities!
Red Love Across the Pacific by
This book examines the Red Love vogue that swept across the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s as part of a worldwide interest in socialism and follows its trails throughout the twentieth century. Encouraging both political and sexual liberation, Red Love was a transnational movement demonstrating the revolutionary potential of love and desire.
James Joyce and the Revolt of Love by
This study examines the representation of marital and extramarital relations in James Joyce's texts, with reference to context and to Joyce's biography. Utell claims that Joyce uses these relations to imagine a different kind of love, one based in a radical acceptance and a rejection of a utilitarian and sexually repressive stance towards marriage.
Setwork books are the prescribed reading materials for your courses.
You can find these books on Shortloans, located on Level 5 of the library, books not on shortloans will be on lvl8. The Shortloan system allows you to borrow a book for one hour within the library, ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to access these important resources. Due to budget constraints, we can't provide a personal copy for every student, but where possible, we've purchased electronic copies for your convenience. Unfortunately, this isn't always feasible. We are actively working to acquire more copies for books in short supply.
Below, you'll find a list of your setwork books, along with details and links to their catalog entries or any available e-books.
Reef by
A haunting and elegiac love story set in a spoiled paradise, as vital and as relevant today as when it was first published.
At her feet : the playscript by
The one-woman, one-act play is set in Cape Town a year after 9/11 and delves into the intersecting lives of four Muslim women, beginning with the honour killing of a Jordanian girl. The narrative reflects on themes of race, religion, culture, and gender through characters like a young Muslim narrator, a slam poet, a middle-aged 'Malay' auntie, and a newly-married Indian-Muslim woman. Using music, poetry, and dance, the play examines Cape Town's heritage and Islam's influence in South Africa, posing questions about racism and shared human experiences.
Nervous conditions by
Two decades before Zimbabwe would win independence and ended white minority rule, thirteen-year-old Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her education. On her shoulders rest the economic hopes of her parents, siblings, and extended family, and within her burns the desire for independence. A timeless coming-of-age tale, and a powerful exploration of cultural imperialism, Nervous Conditions charts Tambu's journey to personhood in a nation that is also emerging.
Romeo and Juliet by
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare is a tragic tale of two young lovers from feuding families in Verona. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet meet at a party and fall instantly in love, despite the longstanding enmity between their families. They secretly marry with the hope of reconciling their kin. However, a series of miscommunications and unfortunate events, including a deadly confrontation between Romeo and Juliet’s cousin Tybalt, lead to further complications. The young lovers' desperate efforts to be together ultimately end in tragedy, which brings about a reconciliation between the feuding families.
Playing with light : a novel (e-book) by
A group of Cuban American women are sucked into the historical novel of nineteenth-century Havana that their reading group has chosen. In this entertaining and fanciful novel, a Cuban-American woman in Miami decides to revive the old Latin American tradition of literary tertulias, with startling and hilarious results!
Things Fall Apart by
The story of Okonkwo, an important man in the Obi tribe, in the days when white men were first appearing on the scene. This novel tells of the series of events by which Okonkwo, through his pride and his fears, becomes exiled from the tribe.
Collected Plays by
`The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' The Times The ironic development and consequences of `progress' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works included in this second volume of Wole Soyinka's plays. The Lion and the Jewel shows an ineffectual assault on past tradition soundly defeated. In Kongi's Harvest, however, the pretensions of Kongi's regime are also fatal. The denouement points the way forward. The two Brother Jero plays pursue that way, the comic `propheteering' of the earlier play giving way to the sardonic reality of Jero's Metamorphosis. Madmen and Specialists, Soyinka's most pessimistic play, concerns the physical, mental, and moral destruction of modern civil war.
Frankenstein second edition C by
This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelley's English Romantic novel along with critical essays that introduce students to Frankenstein from contemporary psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, gender, and cultural studies perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how various critical perspectives can be combined. In this second edition, three of the six essays are new.
Great Expectations by
A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens's haunting late novel depicts Pip's education and development through adversity as he discovers thetrue nature of his 'great expectations'.
A handbook on legal languages and the quest for linguistic equality in South Africa and beyond / by 
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