Download or read book Social and Political Reality in Cyprian Ekwensi s Major Novels written by Umar Abdurrahman and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Iska written by Cyprian Ekwensi and published by Spectrum Books Limited. This book was released on 1996 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel from the pen of one of Africa's foremost writers. Iska tellsthe story of a Nigerian girl from a simple village background who goes tothe city and joins the smart literary and political world. Conflict ensues about her relationship with an unscrupulous politician. The mood and atmosphere of Nigeria are evoked in the settings of the village, the fashionable world of Lagos, and the dark ceremonies of a religious sect. The girl is a symbol of the wind which blows strongly through Africa, destroying the old and preparing for the new.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book People of the City written by Cyprian Ekwensi and published by . This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When People of the City was first published in 1954, it was immediately acclaimed as the first major novel in English by a West African to be widely read throughout the English-speaking world. It tells of the story of a young crime reporter who doubles as a dance bandleader in a large West African city - and eventually relises that what he can do for the developing country he lives in is more important than the varied personal pleasures he can find in the hectic life of the city.
Download or read book Fachkatalog Afrika Pt 3 Westafrika III written by Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Fiction 3 Volume Set written by Brian W. Shaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 1581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile
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Download or read book Half of a Yellow Sun written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigbo’s beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parents’ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their father’s business; and Kainene’s English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. Epic, ambitious and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a more powerful, dramatic and intensely emotional picture of modern Africa than any we have had before.
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Download or read book African Literature African Critics written by Rand Bishop and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1988-07-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a forest of controversies and opinions by African and non-African critics and writers, Bishop has been able to elicit strong paradigms of critical and theoretical evaluation of African literature by Africans themselves, and therein lies the abiding merit of this book. Modern Fiction Studies The years immediately following World War II saw an extraordinary literary development in Black sub-Saharan Africa--the emergence of a virtually new literature. This phenomenon became the center of critical controversy as writers, commentators, and scholars attempted to forge a set of aesthetic standards for this new literature. Although the European contribution to this discussion is will known, the views of African critics, who have been writing voluminously on the subject since the 1940s, have been given far less attention. In this study, Bishop provides the first systematic examination of how Africans themselves have evaluated African literature in English and French from the early postwar years to the opening of the first World Festival of Negro Arts in 1966.
Download or read book Survive the Peace written by Cyprian Ekwensi and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Odugo indser hurtig, at det kræver mere mod og overvejelse at overleve freden end selve Biafran krigen.
Download or read book Beka Lamb written by Zee Edgell and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society. Set in Belize City in the early 1950s, Beka Lamb is the record of a few months in the life of Beka and her family. Beka and her friend Toycie Qualo are on the threshold of change from childhood to adulthood. Their personal struggles and tragedies play out against a backdrop of political upheaval and regeneration as the British colony of Belize gears up for universal suffrage, and progression towards independence. The politics of the colony, the influence of the mixing of races in society, and the dominating presence of the Catholic Church are woven into the fabric of the story to provide a compelling portrait, 'a loving evocation of Belizean life and landscape'. Beka's vibrant character guides us through a tumultuous period in her own life and that of her country.
Download or read book Alpha Song written by Maik Nwosu and published by Hybun Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taneba, the narrator, will die young, his immune system wrecked by years of hard-drinkign and his night-time existence in the clubs of Lagos. Here he recors his last will and testament; of 'Tanbeba the father who judged the mayhem of the night, Taneba the son who revelled in its 'vaganza, and Taneba the spirit who descanted its mysteries'. His stories are shadowed by the legacy of his father's memory, and his genius preoccupies him constantly. Despite himself, Taneba falls for Eve, a former fiancee of his father, who nurtured her flair for art and culture that so entices him. Although their relationship proves transitory, his family heritage and roots do not; at the end of his life, he finally comes to accept his father's genius although he has not entirely risen above 'spitting on his memory'.
