Download or read book Africa written by John Middleton and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 2002 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at the continent of Africa and the countries that comprise it, including peoples and cultures, the land and its history, art and architecture, and daily life.
Download or read book The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez written by Sony Labou Tansi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sony Labou Tansi's surreal portrait of a despised and incompetent regime is a biting, burlesque fable, incisive in its description of postcolonial life. History has been silenced in this modern African state: only the voices of the dead cry out for justice. It is a cry answered by Estina Bronzario, the Woman of Bronze, determined to act against the political and moral corruption of male-dominated society. Murders escalate, crowds ebb and flow, and the years roll by. But all the while, the police never come... 'Central Africa's greatest writer.' New York Times 'No greater genius than Sony Lab'ou Tansi.' Independent 'Sublimely surreal allegory... Tansi [is] one of Africa's important voices.' Publishers Weekly
Download or read book The Shameful State written by Sony Labou Tansi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a fictitious African nation, this novel by the distinguished writer Sony Labou Tansi takes aim at the corruption, degeneracy, violence, and repression of political life in Africa. At the heart of The Shameful State is the story of Colonel Martillimi Lopez, the nation’s president, whose eccentricity and whims epitomize the "shameful situation in which humanity has elected to live." Lopez stages a series of grotesque and barbaric events while his nation falls apart. Unable to resist the dictator’s will, his desperate citizens are left with nothing but humiliation. The evocation of this deranged world is a showcase for the linguistic and stylistic inventiveness that are the hallmark of Sony Labou Tansi’s work. This first English translation by Dominic Thomas includes a foreword by Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou that contextualizes the novel’s importance in literary history and the significance of Sony Labou Tansi for future generations of writers.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara written by John Middleton and published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1997 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged alphabetically. In addition to biographies, extensive country information (primarily postindependence), and historical events, the encyclopedia treats general topics in articles such as agriculture, political systems, and religion and ritual.
Download or read book Wounding Words written by Evelyne Accad and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author, Evelyne Accad, Wounding Words tells the story of Hayate, a young student in Tunisia, as she struggles to cope under the everyday injustices around her. After seeing too many of her cousins die under the blows of their husbands, Hayate promises herself to do everything she can to avoid the same fate. Her hope lies in a drastic move to Tunisia - hailed to be the most democratic and inclusive country in the Arab world. Yet what she finds when she arrives is a starkly different reality. Following Hayate's journals as a feminist scholar, Wounding Words offers a thought-provoking and intelligently written account of feminism as it exist across the world, asking how women everywhere can live day-to-day by its values.
Download or read book Linguistic stylistics written by Nils Erik Enkvist and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Promised Land written by Grace Ogot and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 1991-06-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young farmer and his wife who have migrated to Tanzania from Kenya become embroiled in issues of personal jealousy and materialism, and a melodramatic tale of tribal hatreds ensues. The novel explores Ogot's concept of the ideal African wife: obedient and submissive to her husband; family and community orientated; and committed to non-materialist goals. The style is distinctively ironic giving the story power and relevance. Grace Ogot has been employed in diverse occupations as a novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter, politician, and representative to the UN. Some of her other works include The Island of Tears (1980), the short story collection Land Without Thunder (1988), The Strange Bride (1989) and The Other Woman (1992). The Promised Land was originally published in 1966, and has since been reprinted five times.
Download or read book New Encyclopedia of Africa written by John Middleton and published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 2008 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a collection of alphabetically-arranged entries from 'Abd al-Qadir to John Cummings on the history, geography, culture, religion and ideologies, wars, and economy of the African nations; and includes essays and photographs.
Download or read book The Sacred Seed written by Rebeka Njau and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing African Women written by Stephanie Newell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does our understanding of Africa shift when we begin from the perspective of women? What can the African perspective offer theories of culture and of gender difference? This work, as unique and insightful today as when it was first published, brings together a wide variety of African academics and other researchers to explore the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender. Beginning with a ground-breaking overview of African gender theory, the book goes on to analyse women's writing, uncovering the ways different writers have approached issues of female creativity and colonial history, as well as the ways in which they have subverted popular stereotypes around African women. The contributors also explore the related gender dynamics of mask performance and oral story-telling. This major analysis of gender in popular and postcolonial cultural production remains essential reading for students and academics in women's studies, cultural studies and literature.
Download or read book God Dies by the Nile written by Nawāl Saʻdāwī and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nawal el Saadawi's classic tale attempts to square Islam with a society in which women are respected as equals is as relevant today as ever. 'People have become corrupt everywhere. You can search in vain for Islam, or a devout Muslim. They no longer exist.' Kafr El Teen is a beautiful, sleepy village on the banks of the Nile. Yet at its heart it is tyrannical and corrupt. The Mayor, Sheikh Hamzawi of the mosque, and the Chief of the Village Guard are obsessed by wealth and use and abuse the women of the village, taking them as slaves, marrying them and beating them. Resistance, it seems, is futile. Zakeya, an ordinary villager, works in the fields by the Nile and watches the world, squatting in the dusty entrance to her house, quietly accepting her fate. It is only when her nieces fall prey to the Mayor that Zakeya becomes enraged by the injustice of her society and possessed by demons. Where is the loving and peaceful God in whom Zakeya believes?"
Download or read book Jagua Nana s Daughter written by Cyprian Ekwensi and published by Spectrum Books Limited. This book was released on 1986 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of Africa's foremost novelists and master story-teller, this is a sequel to Ekwensi's best-selling Jagua Nana. The story centres around the heroine's traumatic search for her real mother. All the intracacies of family life and relationships are woven into the story, and Liza finds both her mother and a partner.
Download or read book Criticism in the Wilderness written by Geoffrey H. Hartman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1980, this now classic work of literary theory explores the wilderness of positions that grew out of the collision between Anglo-American practical criticism and Continental philosophic criticism. This second edition includes a new preface by the author as well as a foreword by Hayden White. ?A key text for understanding ?the fate of reading' in the Anglophone world over the last fifty years.”?Hayden White, from the Foreword ?Criticism in the Wilderness may be the best, most brilliant, most broadly useful book yet written by an American about the sudden swerve from the safety of established decorum toward bravely theoretical, mainly European forms of literary criticism.”?Terrence Des Pres, Nation ?A polemical survey that reaffirms the value of the Continental tradition of philosophical literary criticism.”?Notable Books of the Year, New York Times Book Review
Download or read book House of Symbols written by Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Her Mother s Daughter written by Chioma Carol Opara and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dead Artists Live Theories and Other Cultural Problems written by Stanley Aronowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Children of the Eagle written by Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
