Download or read book Before We Visit the Goddess written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new novel from the author of Oleander Girl, a novel in stories, built around crucial moments in the lives of 3 generations of women in an Indian/Indian-American Family"--
Download or read book Les soleils des ind pendances d Ahmadou Kourouma written by Patrick Corcoran and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Soleils des indépendances d'Ahmadou Kourouma est l'un des romans les plus marquants de la littérature africaine d'expression française du XXe siècle. Célébré par la critique dès sa publication, le roman a connu un immense succès qui ne s'est jamais démenti, en raison des qualités formelles de son écriture et de la puissance du récit. Mais c'est aussi une oeuvre qui fait débat, en raison de la dimension politique de son propos : le récit dresse un réquisitoire sans concession de la société et de la gouvernance ivoiriennes dans la période de la post-indépendance. Kourouma n'est pas un simple chroniqueur. Ses ambitions dépassent le cadre conjoncturel dans lequel on a pu vouloir l'enfermer. Optant pour un style résolument hybride et une parole affranchie de toute langue de bois, il mise sur une nouvelle esthétique romanesque qui rend solidaires culture et langue, et qui multiplie les innovations au risque de bousculer la tradition écrite française. Ses audaces, tant linguistiques que politiques, enchantent beaucoup de lecteurs mais en dérangent aussi beaucoup d'autres. Voilà pourquoi, en dépit de ses allures de chef-d'oeuvre, le texte a connu de si graves difficultés avant de pouvoir paraître. Refusé par les éditeurs français, publié initialement au Canada mais moyennant des révisions imposées à l'auteur, Les Soleils des indépendances est une oeuvre qui méritait plus que tout autre d'être relue à la lumière de son parcours génétique. C'est ce que nous proposent les contributions rassemblées dans ce volume : plonger dans l'histoire du texte à la fois pour comprendre la genèse conflictuelle de l'oeuvre, la nouvelle poétique romanesque qu'elle invente et la difficile émergence d'un créateur qui compte désormais parmi les grands écrivains contemporains.
Download or read book Narratives of Fear and Safety written by Kaisa Kaukiainen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this edited volume, written in English and French, tackle the intriguing problems of fear and safety by analysing their various meanings and manifestations in literature and other narrative media. The articles bring forth new, cross-cultural interpretations on fear and safety through examining what kinds of genre-specific means of world-making narratives use to express these two affectivities. The articles also show how important it is to study these themes in order to understand challenges in times of global threats, such as the climate crisis, and - to imagine a better future. The main themes of the book are approached from various theoretical perspectives as related to their literary and cultural representations. Recent trends in research, such as affect and risk theory, serve as the basis for the discussion. Many of the articles in the volume discuss apocalyptic and dystopian narratives that currently permeate the entire cultural landscape. Dystopian narratives do not only deal with future threats, such as totalitarianism, technocracy, or environmental disasters, but also suggest alternative ways of being and new hopes in the form of political resistance. The articles in the volume also draw from disciplines such as gender studies and trauma studies to examine the threats posed by collective fears and aggression on individuals' lives and propose ways of coping with fear. These themes are addressed also in articles analysing new adaptations of old myths that retell stories of the past.
Download or read book Les Soleils des ind pendances d Ahmadou Kourouma written by Patrick Corcoran and published by CNRS éditions. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Soleils des indépendances d'Ahmadou Kourouma est l'un des romans les plus marquants de la littérature africaine d'expression française du XXe siècle. Les Soleils des indépendances d'Ahmadou Kourouma est l'un des romans les plus marquants de la littérature africaine d'expression française du XXe siècle. Célébré par la critique dès sa publication, le roman a connu un immense succès qui ne s'est jamais démenti, en raison des qualités formelles de son écriture et de la puissance du récit. Mais c'est aussi une œuvre qui fait débat, en raison de la dimension politique de son propos : le récit dresse un réquisitoire sans concession de la société et de la gouvernance ivoiriennes dans la période de la post-indépendance. Kourouma n'est pas un simple chroniqueur. Ses ambitions dépassent le cadre conjoncturel dans lequel on a pu vouloir l'enfermer. Optant pour un style résolument hybride et une parole affranchie de toute langue de bois, il mise sur une nouvelle esthétique romanesque qui rend solidaires culture et langue, et qui multiplie les innovations au risque de bousculer la tradition écrite française. Ses audaces, tant linguistiques que politiques, enchantent beaucoup de lecteurs mais en dérangent aussi beaucoup d'autres. Voilà pourquoi, en dépit de ses allures de chef-d'œuvre, le texte a connu de si graves difficultés avant de pouvoir paraître. Refusé par les éditeurs français, publié initialement au Canada mais moyennant des révisions imposées à l'auteur, Les Soleils des indépendances est une œuvre qui méritait plus que tout autre d'être relue à la lumière de son parcours génétique. C'est ce que nous proposent les contributions rassemblées dans ce volume : plonger dans l'histoire du texte à la fois pour comprendre la genèse conflictuelle de l'œuvre, la nouvelle poétique romanesque qu'elle invente et la difficile émergence d'un créateur qui compte désormais parmi les grands écrivains contemporains.
Download or read book Theories of Africans written by Christopher L. Miller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Situating literature and anthropology in mutual interrogation, Miller's...book actually performs what so many of us only call for. Nowhere have all the crucial issues been brought together with the sort of critical sophistication it displays."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ". . . a superb cross-disciplinary analysis."—Y. Mudimbe
Download or read book The Epic in Africa written by Isidore Okpewho and published by New York : Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Suns of Independence written by Ahmadou Kourouma and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ahmadou Kourouma's award winning novel, The Suns of Independence is one of the great classics of Francophone African literature, capturing the dreams and struggles of a newly independent nation. Fama is the last of an ancient line of Dumbuya princes who, before the Europeans came, reigned undisputed over the Malinke tribe. Yet even after independence, Fama is forced to beg for his place amongst the bureaucratic elite. Meanwhile, his wife, Salimata, is desperately attempting to save the Dumbuya legacy from extinction. Beyond the gripping political intrigue, Ahmadou Kourouma weaves together an in-depth tapestry of Malinke culture, blending the everyday experience of 1960s postcolonial life with age-old myths and traditions. 'Perhaps the most remarkable African novelist writing in French.' Guardian
Download or read book Beyond Words written by Andrew Apter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even within anthropology, a discipline that strives to overcome misrepresentations of peoples and cultures, colonialist depictions of the so-called Dark Continent run deep. The grand narratives, tribal tropes, distorted images, and “natural” histories that forged the foundations of discourse about Africa remain firmly entrenched. In Beyond Words, Andrew Apter explores how anthropology can come to terms with the “colonial library” and begin to develop an ethnographic practice that transcends the politics of Africa’s imperial past. The way out of the colonial library, Apter argues, is by listening to critical discourses in Africa that reframe the social and political contexts in which they are embedded. Apter develops a model of critical agency, focusing on a variety of language genres in Africa situated in rituals that transform sociopolitical relations by self-consciously deploying the power of language itself. To break the cycle of Western illusions in discursive constructions of Africa, he shows, we must listen to African voices in ways that are culturally and locally informed. In doing so, Apter brings forth what promises to be a powerful and influential theory in contemporary anthropology.
Download or read book Weep Not Child written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize–nominated Kenyan writer’s powerful first novel Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter. But this is Kenya, and the times are against them: In the forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against the white government, and the two brothers and their family need to decide where their loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau, the choice is simple, but for Njoroge the scholar, the dream of progress through learning is a hard one to give up. The first East African novel published in English, Weep Not, Child explores the effects of the infamous Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book La langue d Ahmadou Kourouma ou Le fran ais sous le soleil d Afrique written by Makhily Gassama and published by Karthala. This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Myth Literature and the African World written by Wole Soyinka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa.
Download or read book The Interpreters written by Wole Soyinka and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—his debut novel about a group of young Nigerian intellectuals trying to come to grips with themselves and their changing country. First published in 1965. Friends since high school, the five young men at the heart of The Interpreters have returned to Lagos after studying abroad to embark on careers as a physician, a journalist, an engineer, a teacher, and an artist. As they navigate wild parties, affairs of the heart, philosophical debates, and professional dilemmas, they struggle to reconcile the cultural traditions and Western influences that have shaped them—and that still divide their country. Soyinka deftly weaves memories of the past through scenes of the present as the five friends move toward an uncertain future. The result is a vividly realized fictional world rendered in prose that pivots easily from satire to tragedy and manages to be both wildly funny and soaringly poetic.
Download or read book Le roman ouest africain de langue fran aise written by Gandonou Albert and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On pourrait affirmer que la littérature de langue française ayant pour thème l'Afrique et ses hommes, si elle est africaine, l'est autant sous la plume des écrivains blancs que sous celle des écrivains noirs. Mais cette étude de langue et de style paraît démontrer amplement qu'il ne s'agirait , ni plus ni moins que de littérature française. L'ouvrage tente de redéfinir la littérature francophone négro-africaine sur des critères autres que ceux de l'idéologie et de la race. La grammaire, l'étude attentive du lexique et de la syntaxe, permettent de poser un regard plus objectif sur la partie de la littérature française qui concerne l'Afrique.
Download or read book Stendhal Or the Pursuit of Happiness written by Matthew Josephson and published by Jorge Pinto Books Inc.. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Stendhal: "The study of human nature, 'the observation of the human heart and its passions, ' was his constant preoccupation. But where could he study the passions better than in himself? Though he lived exuberantly, submitting himself to experience... he went on incessantly writing down everything that happened to him just as it happened. he even led to perform some remarkable experiments upon himself.He laid claim to having been a soldier, a man of fortune, a great lover, a society wit, a diplomat, a traveler, and even, sometimes, a revolutionary conspirator. "Fifty years after his death he becomes one of the demigods of the world's letters, taking his place in the ranks of the great social writers who appeared toward the end of the last century. his manner of life itself has fascinated whole regiments of literary scholars in France, Italy and Germany in the last forty years." -Matthew Josephson, From the Introduction (1946) "Like Josephson's Victor Hugo, it is the best and most comprehensive English study of its subject, a careful collection of material, skillfully assembled and organized...When Freud read Stendhal's memoirs of his childhood and adolescence he called them 'a manifestation of psychological genius.' Stendhal, he saw, had been a Freudian some 70 years before Freud himself."-TIME Magazine (1946)
Download or read book EXPRESSION DU METISSAGE DANS LA LITTERATURE AFRICAINE CHEIKH written by Inès Kihindou and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La littérature africaine témoigne de part en part de la rencontre du continent noir avec l'univers européen, que ce soit au travers de la thématique ou de la langue d'écriture. Les auteurs relevant de l'espace francophone africain donnent à la langue une coloration africaine.Voici une triple approche culturelle, ethnologique et linguistique dans trois oeuvres principalement : L'Aventure ambiguë de Cheick Hamidou Kane, Le Lys et le Flamboyant d'Henri Lopes et Les Soleils des Indépendances d'Ahmadou Kourouma.
Download or read book Doomi Golo The Hidden Notebooks written by Boubacar Boris Diop and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel to be translated from Wolof to English, Doomi Golo—The Hidden Notebooks is a masterful work that conveys the story of Nguirane Faye and his attempts to communicate with his grandson before he dies. With a narrative structure that beautifully imitates the movements of a musical piece, Diop relates Faye’s trauma of losing his only son, Assane Tall, which is compounded by his grandson Badou’s migration to an unknown destination. While Faye feels certain that his grandson will return one day, he also is convinced that he will no longer be alive by then. Faye spends his days sitting under a mango tree in the courtyard of his home, reminiscing and observing his surroundings. He speaks to Badou through his seven notebooks, six of which are revealed to the reader, while the seventh, the “Book of Secrets,” is highly confidential and reserved for Badou’s eyes only. In the absence of letters from Badou, the notebooks form the only possible means of communication between the two, carrying within them tunes and repetitions that give this novel its unusual shape: loose and meandering on the one hand, coherent and tightly interwoven on the other. Translated by Vera Wülfing-Leckie and El Hadji Moustapha Diop.
Download or read book Conversations with Ogotemm li written by Marcel Griaule and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1948 as Dieu d'Eau, this near-classic offers a unique and first-hand account of the myth, religion, and philosophy of the Dogan, A Sudanese people.
