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Penguin Group (USA)’S Great Selection of African Studies Titles AfricAn2009 StudieS Here is a round-up of the Penguin Group (USA)’s great selection of African Studies titles. Click on the 13-digit ISBN to get more information on each title. Examination and personal copy forms are available at the back of the catalog. For personal service, adoption assistance, and complimentary exam copies, sign up for our College Faculty Info Service at http://www.penguin.com/facinfo PenGuin GrOuP (uSA) 2 FEATURED TITLES Marcus Rediker f THE SLAVE SHIP A Human History Focusing on the 18th-century American and British slave trade, Rediker explores how the ships, their crews, and their human cargo connected and transformed societies on both sides of the hor- rendous voyage. He draws on thirty years of research in maritime archives, court records, diaries, and firsthand accounts, to reconstruct the “floating dungeons” at the forefront of the birth of African American culture. “The Slave Ship is the best of histories, deeply researched, brilliantly formulated, and morally informed.”—Ira Berlin, University of Maryland. “I was hardly prepared for the profound emotional impact of The Slave Ship: A Human History. Reading it established a transformative and never to be severed bond with my African ancestors.”—Alice Walker. 16 pp. b/w photos, 8 maps. Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-311425-3 • $16.00 Winner of the George Washington Book Prize, the AHA James A. Rawley Prize, and the OAH Merle Curti Award Full Table of Contents available online and www.penguin.com/toc John Carlin f PLAYING THE ENEMY Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament—the story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. “This wonderful book describes Mandela’s methodical, improba- ble and brilliant campaign to reconcile resentful blacks and fearful whites around a sporting event, a game of rugby.”—The New York Times Book Review. “ If you have any doubts about the political genius of Nelson Man- dela, read John Carlin’s engrossing book.”—USA Today. Penguin Press • 288 pp. • 978-1-59420-174-5 • $24.95 Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-311572-4 • $16.00 Paperback available August 2009 A Barnes and Noble Best Book of 2008 tABLe Of cOntentS FEATURED TITLES .................................................. 2 RELIGION & ANTHROPOLOGY ............................13 LITERATURE ............................................................ 4 REFERENCE ...........................................................14 J.M. COETZEE ................................................. 5 DK .................................................................15 NURUDDIN FARAH ........................................ 6 ROUGH GUIDES ...........................................15 NADINE GORDIMER ...................................... 7 COLLEGE FACULTY INFORMATION SERVICE ......16 CHILDREN’S CORNER .................................... 8 SCHOOL & PERSONAL COPIES ORDER FORM ....18 HISTORY ................................................................. 9 EXAMINATION COPY ORDER FORM ....................19 POLITICS & CURRENT EVENTS ............................11 For more African Studies related titles, please see our Art & Architecture, Geography, History and Sociology catalogs, available for download on us.penguingroup.com/subjectcatalogs AFRICAN STUDIES 2009 PENGUIN GROUP (USA) f denotes new or forthcoming title 3 FEATURED TITLES Padraig O’Malley f SHADES OF DIFFERENCE Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa Foreword by Nelson Mandela Based on extensive interviews with Maharaj and hitherto unavailable documents, O’Malley reveals the inside story of South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement. “[O’Malley] is knowledge- able and sure-footed as he recounts this story . making a complex narrative on the whole quite clear.”—San Francisco Chronicle. “A striking success.”—The New York Times Book Review. Penguin • 672 pp. • 978-0-14-023224-0 • $18.00 Ruth First f 117 Days An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law Introduction by Angela Y. Davis An invaluable testimonial of the excesses of the apartheid system, 117 Days presents the chronicle of journalist First’s isolation and abuse at the hands of South African interrogators. Upon her arrest in 1963, she was detained in sol- itary confinement, under South Africa’s ninety-day detention law. Thus began a war of nerves between First and her Special Branch captors. “[Ruth First’s] life, and her death, remains a beacon to all who love liberty.”—Nelson Mandela. Penguin Classics • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-310574-9 • $14.00 Rob Spillman, editor f GODS AND SOLDIERS The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing Whether about life in the new urban melting pots of Cape Town and Luanda, or amid the battlefield chaos of Zimbabwe and Somalia, or set in the imaginary surreal landscapes born out of the oral sto- rytelling tradition, these 30 stories represent a striking cross section of an extraordinary new Afri- can literature. Includes stories from northern Arabic-speaking to southern Zulu-speaking writers, and features J. M. Coetzee, Chimamanda Adichie, Nuruddin Farah, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Chi- nua Achebe. Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-311473-4 • $16.00 Joni Seager f THE PENGUIN ATLAS OF WOMEN IN THE WORLD 4th Edition In this updated edition of her groundbreaking atlas, Joni Seager provides compre- hensive and accessible analysis of global data on the key issues facing women today. “Innovative....A wealth of fascinating information.”—The Washington Post. Penguin • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-311451-2 • $20.00 Dan Smith f THE PENGUIN STATE OF THE WORLD ATLAS 8th Edition A unique visual survey of current events and global trends. “Succeeds in displaying the geopolitical subtleties of global affairs....A single map here tells us more about the world today than a dozen abstracts or scholarly tomes.”—Los Angeles Times. Penguin • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-311452-9 • $20.00 AFRICAN STUDIES 2009 PENGUIN GROUP (USA) f denotes new or forthcoming title 4 LITERATURE Annelie Botes Joseph Conrad LiterAture RIDDLE CHILD f HEART OF DARKNESS Penguin SA • 311 pp. • 978-0-670-04792-5 • $16.00 and THE CONGO DIARY Edited by Owen Knowles, John Buchan Robert Hampson and J.H. Stape Anonymous f THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS Introduction by Owen Knowles Edited with and Introduction by John Keegan Notes by Owen Knowles and Robert Hampson SUNJATA STORY Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-144167-2 • $9.00 Penguin Epics In his introduction to this new edition, John Penguin • 128 pp. • 978-0-14-102685-5 • $8.95 Keegan compares Buchan’s life–his experiences Youth; Heart of Darkness; in South Africa, his love of Scotland and his THE END OF THE Tether Simi Bedford moral integrity–with his fictional hero. This edi- Edited with an Introduction by John Lyon tion also includes notes, a chronology and fur- Penguin Classics • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-018513-3 • $10.00 YORUBA GIRL DANCING A semi-autobiographical first novel about a ther reading. HEART OF DARKNESS and Nigerian girl’s adjustment to life at an English Penguin Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-144117-7 • $9.00 THE Secret SHARER Great Books for Boys Series boarding school. “A wise and provocative book.” Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates Penguin • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-103373-0 • $10.00 —Publishers Weekly. Afterword by Vince Passaro Penguin • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-023293-6 • $14.00 Signet Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-451-53103-2 • $4.95 Bruce Chatwin f THE NIGGER OF THE “NARCISSUS” Aphra Behn THE VICEROY OF OUIDAH and Other Stories The story of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor OROONOKO, THE ROVER, Edited by Allan H. Simmons and J.H. Stape Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in Introduction by Gail Fraser AND OTHER WORKS West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his Edited with an Introduction by Janet Todd Includes: “Youth,” “The Secret Sharer,” “The fortune. “Both a luminous historical document Based on the first printed edition of 1688 and Lagoon,” “An Outpost of Progress,” “Il Conde,” and an exploitation of the surreal past.”—Time. includes a chronology, bibliography and notes. and “The Duel”. Penguin • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-011290-0 • $13.00 Includes “The Fair Jilt,” “Love Letters to a Gentle- Penguin Classics • 528 pp. • 978-0-14-144170-2 • $14.00 man,” The Widow Ranter” and poems. Penguin Classics • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-043338-8 • $12.00 Carolyn Coman Quobna Ottobah Cugoano MANY STONES OROONOKO THOUGHTS AND SENTIMENTS “You read this small book in one breathless rush ON THE EVIL OF SLAVERY Edited with an Introduction to the end, then go back and back again and and Notes by Janet Todd and Other Writings find more to think about each time.”—The New In this new single-volume edition of the early Edited with an Introduction York Times Book Review. “In plain words, as hard antislavery novel, Prince Oroonoko’s passion for and Notes by Vincent Carretta as stones, this small, riveting book connects the Imoinda leads to the lovers’ banishment from “Carretta’s edition restores this important, but anguish in one family with the struggle of a Africa into slavery in Surinam. Includes carefully little known author to his rightful place as a country to come to terms with its savage modernized text and suggestions for further central figure in the Black Atlantic tradition of past.”—Booklist, starred review. reading. the eighteenth century...A masterful achieve- Puffin • 60 pp. • 978-0-14-230148-7 • $5.99 ment.”— Henry Louis Gates, Jr Penguin Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-043988-5 • $11.00 A National Book Award Finalist Penguin Classics • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-044750-7 • $14.00 Stephen Belcher Maryse Conde Vincent Carretta AFRICAN MYTHS OF ORIGIN SEGU f A unique anthology of retold fables from Africa EQUIANO, THE AFRICAN Translated by Barbara Bray Biography of a Self-Made Man with individual prefaces to each section, which In the year 1797, the flourishing kingdom of put the stories in their geographical and social A controversial look at the most renowned per- Segu reckons with coming changes, in the son of African descent in the eighteenth cen- context.
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