Download or read book Osiris Rising written by Ayi Kwei Armah and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is structured after Africa's oldest narrative, the Isis-Osiris myth cycle. Traveling to Africa on a search for lifework and love, Ast, an African American scholar, gets immersed in history as living continuity. In a pillaged society where slaveraiders' heirs masquerade as aid donors, and colonies are disguised as nations, Ast still finds her home in a quiet community working to bring the continent's people together. The love of friends focused on the making of an African future absorbs her pained consciousness of a world dstroyed.
Download or read book Awakening Osiris written by Normandi Ellis and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Egyptian Book of the Dead is one of the oldest and greatest classics of Western spirituality. Until now, the available translations have treated these writings as historical curiosities with little relevance to our contemporary situation. This new version, made from the hieroglyphs, approaches the Book of the Dead as a profound spiritual text capable of speaking to us today. These writings suggest that the divine realm and the human realm are not altogether separate--they remind us that the natural world, and the substance of our lives, is fashioned from the stuff of the gods. Devoted like an Egyptian scribe to the principle of "effective utterance", Normandi Ellis has produced a prose translation that reads like pure, diaphanous verse.
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Download or read book Atlantis Rising Magazine Issue 27 The OSIRIS Connection download PDF written by atlantisrising.com and published by Atlantis Rising magazine. This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 88-page download: LETTERS EARLY RAYS HILLY ROSE THE DAILY GRAIL The Internet’s Best Alternative Science Site Now in Print THE AEGEAN ATLANTIS DECEPTION Was Plato’s Grand Tale About a Tiny Greek Isle? THE HENGE OF THE WORLD How Much Did Avebury’s Builders Know about Geography? GRAVITY: RECONSIDERED Is It Time to Rewrite Einstein’s Theory? THE BIOSENSITIVE FACTOR Can Special Human Senses Warn Us of Disaster? THE SEARCH FOR TESLA’S LOST PAPERS Did the Great Inventor Take His Secrets to the Grave? UFOs OF THE THIRD REICH Was Hitler’s Last Refuge, the South Pole? NATURE’S BODY SOFTWARE How Important Is the Understanding of Our Chakras? THE OSIRIS CONNECTION What Does Christianity Have to Do with Ancient Egypt? MIND OVER MATTER Human Emotion and Physics POET OF THE SUPERNATURAL W.B. Yeats and Spirit Communications? ASTROLOGY BOOKS RECORDINGS
Download or read book State Society written by Gilbert Shang Ndi and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkably meticulous work, Gilbert Shang Ndi succeeds in bringing together the aesthetic and political dimensions of the texts and in broadening interpretative perspectives in very convincing analyses. Each author is handled in his peculiarity and the theoretical ambitions of the project contribute to fruitful and innovative readings of major African literature texts by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ahmadou Kourouma, Ayi Kwei Armah and Sony Labou Tansi. --Prof. Xavier Garnier, U. de Paris-Sorbonne III **This title is based on a Dissertation. (Series: Contributions in African Research / BeitrÃ?¤ge zur Afrikaforschung, Vol. 77) [Subject: African Studies, Literary Criticism]
Download or read book Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of the most comprehensive, scholarly work on Osiris. Includes translations of numerous texts, reproductions of classical Egyptian art ? iconography, the Heaven of Osiris, liturgy, shrines and mysteries, funeral and burial practices, human sacrifice, judge of the dead, links between Osiris worship and African religions, much more.
Download or read book The Search for Melchizedek written by Jeffrey Tiel and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Epistle to the Hebrews contains a hitherto unnoticed enigma. It refers to a man without beginning or end-one who lives forever. So, who and where is he? The Jews knew him only as the Wanderer. T. S. Eliot called him the Witness. And the early Christians named him . . . Melchizedek. Federal Agent Roger Quarston can't know that investigating an ancient, blood-stained manuscript will lead him to this same Melchizedek-whose revelation will threaten allegiances, challenge faiths, crack political foundations, enliven ancient dynasties, and open the promise of immortality and unimagined power.
Download or read book Everything Is Sampled written by Akinwumi Adesokan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything Is Sampled examines the shifting modes of production and circulation of African artistic forms since the 1980s, focusing on digital culture as the most currently decisive setting for these changes. Drawing on works of cinema, literature, music, and visual art, Akin Adekan. addresses two main questions. First, given the various changes that the institutions producing African arts and letters have undergone in the past four decades, how have the representational impulses in these forms fared in comparison with those at work in pervasively digital cultures? Second, how might a long view of these artistic forms across media and in different settings affect our understanding of what counts as art, as text, as authorship? Immersed in digital culture, African artists today are acutely aware of the media-saturated circumstances in which they work and actively bridge them by making ethical choices to shape those circumstances. Through an innovative development and analysis of five modes of creative practice--curation, composition, adaptation, platform, and remix--Everything Is Sampled offers an absorbingly complex yet nuanced approach to appreciating the work of several generations of African writers, directors, and artists. No longer content to just fill a spot in the relay between the conception and distribution of a work, these artists are now also quick to view and reconfigure their works through different modes of creative practice.
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Download or read book Student Encyclopedia of African Literature written by Douglas Killam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African literature is a vast subject of growing output and interest. Written especially for students, this book selectively surveys the topic in a clear and accessible way. Included are roughly 600 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, genres, and major works. Many entries cite works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. Africa is a land of contrasts and of diverse cultures and traditions. It is also a land of conflict and creativity. The literature of the continent draws upon a fascinating body of oral traditions and lore and also reflects the political turmoil of the modern world. With the increased interest in cultural diversity and the growing centrality of Africa in world politics, African literature is figuring more and more prominently in the curriculum. This book helps students learn about the African literary achievement. Written expressly for students, this book is far more accessible than other reference works on the subject. Included are nearly 600 alphabetically arranged entries on authors, such as Chinua Achebe, Athol Fugard, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, and Wole Soyinka; major works, such as Things Fall Apart and Petals of Blood; and individual genres, such as the novel, drama, and poetry. Many entries cite works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of African Literature written by Simon Gikandi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book contains over 600 entries that cover criticism and theory, its development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers.
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Download or read book The Critical Imagination in African Literature written by Maik Nwosu and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In African studies, the “Echeruoan ideal” is understood as an intervention or intellectual engagement characterized by a broadness of vision as well as a depth of analysis. The essays gathered in this volume celebrate that ideal and honor Echeruo’s contribution to the African intellectual tradition. Editors Nwosu and Obiwu explore the driving forces in the literature of Africa and the African diaspora. Contributors examine such themes as migration and exile, trauma and repression, violence and rebellion, and gender and human rights. Showcasing a rich diversity of cultural and academic backgrounds, this volume inaugurates a new paradigm for further examination of African literature as world literature and for analysis of African literature through the lens of psychoanalytic semiotics. While varied in modes of inquiry, the essays are unified in their ambition to explore new theoretical directions, reinvigorating the conversation around how African literature is read and studied.
Download or read book Ancient Egypt Light Of The World 2 Vol set written by Gerald Massey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. This expansive and fascinating treatment of ancient Egyptian mythology and its influence on the traditions that followed from it includes explorations of sign-language in mythological representation, totemism, fetishism, spirits and Gods, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and Egyptian wisdom in the Hebrew Genesis. Readers will enjoy the wealth of information offered by Massey, as well as his clear and readable style.
