Download or read book Insila the Eyes and Ears of the King written by John Dube and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insila, the Eyes and Ears of the King is a fresh, modern translation of the Zulu novel, "Insila kaShaka," which was first published in 1931, the first novel by a Zulu writer. Dube's narrative is an extraordinary, gripping and haunting window into Zulu life as it was lived before the land was lost to the Europeans. It tells of a young man, Jeqe, who is summoned by Emperor Shaka to his Royal Residence at Dukuza to be his Insila. There is no accurate translation of the word, insila. The only way to find out what it entails is to read Dube's book. An earlier translator, J. Boxwell, translated it as 'bodyservant'. This captures only one aspect of the Insila's role. The word insila means body dirt and conveys the fact that the Insila becomes very close to and inseparable from the king. When Shaka is murdered by his half-brothers, Jeqe must be buried along with Shaka's wives and his earthly possessions. Jeqe's Buthelezi ancestors come to him in a dream. They tell him he still has much to accomplish - and he flees. This is the start of an enthralling adventure involving traversing dangerous bushveld teeming with wild animals of all kinds, crossing mighty rivers and negotiating lands populated by foreign peoples. The story includes some wonderful and thrilling encounters - the courting of Zakhi, the love of his life; the island school of Nkosazana, the female mistress of traditional medicine and divining in the swamps of the Usuthu River between what is now South Africa and Mozambique; and an apocalyptic landscape of abandoned villages and dying people on a plateau in the Ubombo Mountains. Dube is anxious to record the culture and social conditions of the time as well as to tell the story. It is thus a Zulu novel in a real sense, quite different to the form that developed in the West. This translation of Insila kaShaka by Thembani Ndiya Nene and Robert Mshengu Kavanagh, comes with a substantial introduction and a glossary.
Download or read book African Literatures as World Literature written by Alexander Fyfe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enormous success of writers such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie demonstrates that African literatures are now an international phenomenon. But the apparent global legibility of a small number of (mostly Anglophone) writers in the diaspora raises the question of how literary producers from the continent, both past and present, have situated their work in relation to the world and the kinds of material networks to which this corresponds. This collection shows how literatures from across the African continent engage with conceptualizations of 'the world' in relation to local social and political issues. Focusing on a wide variety of geographic, historical and linguistic contexts, the essays in this volume seek answers to the following questions: What are the topographies of 'the world' in different literary texts and traditions? What are that world's limits, boundaries and possibilities? How do literary modes and forms such as realism, narrative poetry or the political essay affect the presentation of worldliness? What are the material networks of circulation that allow African literatures to become world literature? African literatures, it emerges, do important theoretical work that speaks to the very core of world literary studies today.
Download or read book Aeneid written by Virgil and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.
Download or read book Kings Commoners and Concessionaires written by Philip Bonner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-16 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first full-length study of the political economy of the nineteenth-century Swazi state.
Download or read book Silas Marner Illustrated written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by Mary Ann Evans. It was published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community.
Download or read book Modern Written Arabic written by El Said Badawi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Written Arabic is a complete reference guide to the grammar of modern written Arabic. The Grammar presents an accessible and systematic description of the language, focusing on real patterns of use in contemporary written Arabic, from street signs to literature. Examples are drawn from authentic texts, both literary and journalistic, published since 1990. This comprehensive work is an invaluable resource for intermediate and advanced students of Arabic and anyone interested in Arabic linguistics and the way modern written Arabic works. Features include: comprehensive coverage of all parts of speech full cross-referencing authentic examples, given in Arabic script, transliteration and translation a detailed index.
Download or read book Stanley in Africa written by James P. Boyd and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley in Africa is a book by James Penny Boyd. A volume of travel, exploration and adventure that isn't without instruction, we delve into to the deepest and most treacherous regions of Africa during the 19th century.
Download or read book Truth Be Told written by Maishe Maponya and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconic playwright and performance poet, Maishe Maponya, surveys with passion the milestones in the making of South Africa since 1994. In richly indigenous verse and with the humour that has made it possible for them to turn defeat into victory over the years he sings of his people's struggles, their hopes, anger and pain, and above all the people's demand for something better than what they have now. His is a deeply South African voice . Fearlessly he penetrates the political and public relations smokescreen of events and lays bare the truth. Satiric poetry of a high order-these poems challenge the establishment and speak with the people's voice.
Download or read book Making People s Theatre written by Robert Kavanagh and published by Witwatersrand University Press Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the theatre process from forming a group through to choosing a script, directing, lighting and set design to performance and touring.
Download or read book Theatre and Cultural Struggle in South Africa written by Robert Kavanagh and published by London : Zed Books ; Totowa, N.J. : US distributor, Biblio Distribution Center. This book was released on 1985 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering study of South African theatre under Apartheid, exploring the ways in which the stage became an arena for the battle against oppression.
Download or read book Indigenous knowledge for climate change assessment and adaptation written by Nakashima, Douglas and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique transdisciplinary publication is the result of collaboration between UNESCO's Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) programme, the United Nations University's Traditional Knowledge Initiative, the IPCC, and other organisations
Download or read book A Grammar of Lao written by N.J. Enfield and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lao is the national language of Laos, and is also spoken widely in Thailand and Cambodia. It is a tone language of the Tai-Kadai family (Southwestern Tai branch). Lao is an extreme example of the isolating, analytic language type. This book is the most comprehensive grammatical description of Lao to date. It describes and analyses the important structures of the language, including classifiers, sentence-final particles, and serial verb constructions. Special attention is paid to grammatical topics from a semantic, pragmatic, and typological perspective.
Download or read book Molecular Revolution written by Felix Guattari and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2025-03-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molecular Revolution comprises a series of articles from radical French philosopher and psychoanalyst, Felix Guattari, originally published in two separate French editions, of 1977 and 1980 - each bearing the name Molecular Revolution. Despite this titular similarity, these texts differed wildly in form and content so as to become hardly recognizable. This translated single volume makes available in English for the first time an ensemble of pieces featuring an introduction by the editor, Stéphane Nadaud, and an afterword by Janell Watson. By re-arranging and re-deploying these articles, Molecular Revolution stays true to the content of Guattari's work as both a unique version and the embodiment of the essential plurality of molecular revolutions. For Guattari, rather than a theory, molecular revolutions form a practical way of doing politics, and this volume will be essential to the full comprehension of the political force of Guattari's life and work.
Download or read book African Perspectives of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona written by Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the active role played by Africans in the pre-colonial production of historical knowledge in South Africa, focusing on perspectives of the second king of amaZulu, King Dingane. It draws upon a wealth of oral traditions, izibongo, and the work of public intellectuals such as Magolwane kaMkhathini Jiyane and Mshongweni to present African perspectives of King Dingane as multifaceted, and in some cases, constructed according to socio-political formations and aimed at particular audiences. By bringing African perspectives to the fore, this innovative historiography centralizes indigenous African languages in the production of historical knowledge.
Download or read book Complete Works of Edmund Spenser written by Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Compact Anthology of World Literature written by Laura Getty and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The introductions in this anthology are meant to be just that: a basic overview of what students need to know before they begin reading, with topics that students can research further. An open access literature textbook cannot be a history book at the same time, but history is the great companion of literature: The more history students know, the easier it is for them to interpret literature. In an electronic age, with this text available to anyone with computer access around the world, it has never been more necessary to recognize and understand differences among nationalities and cultures. The literature in this anthology is foundational, in the sense that these works influenced the authors who followed them. A word to the instructor: The texts have been chosen with the idea that they can be compared and contrasted, using common themes. Rather than numerous (and therefore often random) choices of texts from various periods, these selected works are meant to make both teaching and learning easier. While cultural expectations are not universal, many of the themes found in these works are."--Open Textbook Library.
Download or read book The Mah bh rata written by Chaturvedi Badrinath and published by Bright Sparks. This book was released on 2006 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a scholarly treatise on the subject of Indian philosophy and is also written by one of its foremost and most well-known proponents. Chaturvedi Badrinath shows that the Mahabharata is the most systematic inquiry into the human condition. Badrinath shows that the concerns of the Mahabharata are the concerns of everyday life––of dharma, artha, kama and moksha. This book dispels several false claims about what is today known as ‘Hinduism’ to show us how individual liberty and knowledge, freedom, equality, and the celebration of love, friendship and relationships are integral to the philosophy of the Mahabharata, because they are integral to human life. What sets this book apart from others is that Badrinath has used more than 500 Sanskrit shlokas, which he has translated himself to illustrate his arguments. Secondly, his approach to Hindu philosophy is one based in humanism, rather than in divisive politics.
