Award winning poet,journalist, novelist and academic, Maik Nwosu’s new book, Markets of Memories, has just hit the bookshelves. Published by Africa World Press, the book came out of Maik Nwosu’s Phd thesis which was on semiotics.

The book is described as combining “the analysis of rhetorical and dialectical structures and the exploration of contact zones and their power dynamics. In effect, the book explores the movement of history, and its interpretive narratives, from two perspectives—the postcolonial (with its central colonizer-colonized binary) and the transnational (with its cross-cultural multi-formity). To be postcolonial, especially in the contemporary sense, is to be already multicultural or transnational.” The first full length critical work from Maik Nwosu who is now an

assistant professor of African and world literature at the University of Denver,Colorado is further described by the publisher as focusing “on

markets (both actual sites and ideational frameworks or contexts) as the quintessential traveling sign of modernity, Markets of Memories includes the synoptic exploration of historical relations (and the pertinent markets of memories) in Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Americas. The book also includes, and in fact emphasizes, the text/context interpretation of particular works by Christopher Okigbo

(Africa), Derek Walcott (the Caribbean), James Joyce (Ireland/Europe),

and Isabel Allende (Latin America).”