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Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Ba Shiru written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alison Des Forges
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299281434
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Defeat Is the Only Bad News written by Alison Des Forges and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Rwandan proverb says “Defeat is the only bad news.” For Rwandans living under colonial rule, winning called not only for armed confrontation, but also for a battle of wits—and not only with foreigners, but also with each other. In Defeat Is the Only Bad News Alison Des Forges recounts the ambitions, strategies, and intrigues of an African royal court under Yuhi Musinga, the Rwandan ruler from 1896 to 1931. These were turbulent years for Rwanda, when first Germany and then Belgium pursued an aggressive plan of colonization there. At the time of the Europeans’ arrival, Rwanda was also engaged in a succession dispute after the death of one of its most famous kings. Against this backdrop, the Rwandan court became the stage for a drama of Shakespearean proportions, filled with deceit, shrewd calculation, ruthless betrayal, and sometimes murder. Historians who study European expansion typically focus on interactions between colonizers and colonized; they rarely attend to relations among the different factions inhabiting occupied lands. Des Forges, drawing on oral histories and extensive archival research, reveals how divisions among different groups in Rwanda shaped their responses to colonial governments, missionaries, and traders. Rwandans, she shows, used European resources to extend their power, even as they sought to preserve the autonomy of the royal court. Europeans, for their part, seized on internal divisions to advance their own goals. Des Forges’s vividly narrated history, meticulously edited and introduced by David Newbury, provides a deep context for understanding the Rwandan civil war a century later.
Author : Dubem Okafor
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865435551
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (355 download)
Download or read book The Dance of Death written by Dubem Okafor and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Okigbo (1932-1967) was one of Africa's foremost poets until his life was cut short by the Biafran civil war. This work analyses his poetry and considers its importance as prophecy in the light of the current concern about the direction of the Nigerian government.
Author : Siga Fatima Jagne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136593977
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Postcolonial African Writers written by Siga Fatima Jagne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes that appear in the author's writings, an overview of the critical response to the author's work, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. These profiles are written by expert contributors and reflect many different perspectives. The volume concludes with a selected general bibliography of the most important critical works on postcolonial African literature.
Author : Werner Graebner
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051833379
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Sokomoko Popular Culture in East Africa written by Werner Graebner and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1136 pages
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Download or read book Research in African Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan P. Smithe
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781590332900
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (329 download)
Download or read book African Literature written by Jonathan P. Smithe and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African literature, like the continent itself is enormous and diverse. East Africa's literature is different from West Africa's which is quite different from South Africa's which has different influences on it than North Africa's. Africa's literature is based on a widespread heritage of oral literature, some of which has now been recorded. Arabic influence can be detected as well as European, especially French and English. Legends, myths, proverbs, riddles and folktales form the mother load of the oral literature. This book presents an overview of African literature as well as a comprehensive bibliography, primarily of English language sources. Accessed by subject, author and title indexes.
Author : Stan A. Vrana
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810815421
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Interviews and Conversations with 20th-century Authors Writing in English written by Stan A. Vrana and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Author : Florence Stratton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134860625
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Contemporary African Lit & Pol written by Florence Stratton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Sonali Perera
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231525443
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book No Country written by Sonali Perera and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can there be a novel of the international working class despite the conditions and constraints of economic globalization? What does it mean to invoke working-class writing as an ethical intervention in an age of comparative advantage and outsourcing? No Country argues for a rethinking of the genre of working-class literature. Sonali Perera expands our understanding of working-class fiction by considering a range of international texts, identifying textual, political, and historical linkages often overlooked by Eurocentric and postcolonial scholarship. Her readings connect the literary radicalism of the 1930s to the feminist recovery projects of the 1970s, and the anticolonial and postcolonial fiction of the 1960s to today's counterglobalist struggles, building a new portrait of the twentieth century's global economy and the experiences of the working class within it. Perera considers novels by the Indian anticolonial writer Mulk Raj Anand; the American proletarian writer Tillie Olsen; Sri Lankan Tamil/Black British writer and political journalist Ambalavaner Sivanandan; Indian writer and bonded-labor activist Mahasweta Devi; South African-born Botswanan Bessie Head; and the fiction and poetry published under the collective signature Dabindu, a group of free-trade-zone garment factory workers and feminist activists in contemporary Sri Lanka. Articulating connections across the global North-South divide, Perera creates a new genealogy of working-class writing as world literature and transforms the ideological underpinnings casting literature as cultural practice.
Author : Nathaniel Mathews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520394534
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Zanzibar Was a Country written by Nathaniel Mathews and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zanzibar Was a Country traces the history of a Swahili-speaking Arab diaspora from East Africa to Oman. In Oman today, whole communities in Muscat speak Swahili, have recent East African roots, and practice forms of sociality associated with the urban culture of the Swahili coast. These "Omani Zanzibaris" offer the most significant contemporary example in the Gulf, as well as in the wider Indian Ocean region, of an Afro-Arab community that maintains a living connection to Africa in a diasporic setting. While they come from all over East Africa, a large number are postrevolution exiles and emigrés from Zanzibar. Their stories provide a framework for the broader transregional entanglements of decolonization in Africa and the Arabian Gulf. Using both vernacular historiography and life histories of men and women from the community, Nathaniel Mathews argues that the traumatic memories of the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964 are important to nation-building on both sides of the Indian Ocean.
Author : Dorothy K. Washburn
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486842320
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Symmetries of Culture written by Dorothy K. Washburn and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collaboration between an anthropologist and a mathematician constitutes both a collection of symmetrical pattern designs from many cultures and a monograph on pattern design and the classification of symmetrical patterns. Intended for art historians, anthropologists, classical archaeologists, and others interested in the study of material culture, it can also serve as a reference and inspiration for the use of symmetrical patterns in art and design. "This richly illustrated study brings to light dozens of intriguing examples of symmetrical designs, for instance, in a Zulu loincloth, a Japanese chopstick case, a New England quilt, a Tibetan 'Plaque of a Thousand Lamas,' a Hawaiian water gourd. The same pattern found in a fantastical drawing of lizards by M. C. Escher is echoed in a Fijian basket lid and an Egyptian wall mosaic." — Publishers Weekly "This extremely useful guide to classifying plane pattern designs … is extensively illustrated with carvings, textiles, baskets, tiles, and poetry, which are used as examples of various symmetry patterns." — American Anthropologist "An impressive book—both in terms of its physical appearance and its content ... will undoubtedly become the major reference on the analysis of patterns in terms of symmetry properties." — Antiquity
Author : Horst Zander
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823346593
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (465 download)
Download or read book Fact - Fiction - "faction" written by Horst Zander and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1999 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip M. Peek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135948720
Total Pages : 1509 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book African Folklore written by Philip M. Peek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 1509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
Author : Jacob Blakesley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350043273
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Sociologies of Poetry Translation written by Jacob Blakesley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the sociology of literary translation is well-established, and even flourishing, the same cannot be said for the sociology of poetry translation. Sociologies of Poetry Translation features scholars who address poetry translation from sociological perspectives in order to catalyze new methods of investigating poetry translation. This book makes the case for a move from the singular 'sociology of poetry translation' to the pluralist 'sociologies', in order to account for the rich variety of approaches that are currently emerging to deal with poetry translation. It also aims to bridge the gap between the 'cultural turn' and the 'sociological turn' in Translation Studies, with the range of contributions showcasing the rich diversity of approaches to analysing poetry translation from socio-cultural, socio-historical, socio-political and micro-social perspectives. Contributors draw on theorists including Pierre Bourdieu and Niklas Luhmann and assess poetry translation from and/or into Catalan, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Slovakian, Spanish, Swahili and Swedish. A wide range of topics are featured in the book including: trends in poetry translation in the modern global book market; the commissioning and publishing of poetry translations in the United States of America; modern English-language translations of Dante; women poet-translators in mid-19th century Ireland; translations of Russian poetry anthologies into modern English; the translation of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets in post-colonial Tanzania and socialist Czechoslovakia; translations and translators of Italian poetry into 20th and 21st century Sweden; modern European poet-translators; and collaborative writing between prominent English and Spanish poet-translators.
Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780914478492
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (784 download)
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka written by Wole Soyinka and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished scholars analyze the plays, poetry, and prose of Wole Smoyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. Essays trace his career and place his work in the general context of African literature.
Author : Jan Blommaert
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748675817
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book State Ideology and Language in Tanzania written by Jan Blommaert and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tanzania is often seen as an exceptional case of successful language planning in Africa, with Swahili being spread to all corners of the country. Yet, this objective success has always been accompanied by a culture of complaints proclaiming its utter failure. State Ideology and Language in Tanzania sets out to explore this paradox through a richly documented historical, sociolinguistic and anthropological approach covering the story of Swahili from the early days of independence until today. Focusing on the ways in which Swahili was swept up in the 'Ujamaa revolution' - the transition to socialism led by president Nyerere - Jan Blommaert demonstrates how the language became an emblem not just of the Tanzanian 'cultural' nation, but above all of the 'political' nation. Using Swahili meant the acceptance of socialism, and the spread of Swahili across the country should equal the spread of Ujamaa socialism. When this did not happen, the verdict of failure was proclaimed on Swahili, which did not prevent the language from becoming one of the most widely used and dynamic languages on the continent.This book is a thoroughly revised version of the 1999 edition, which was welcomed at the time as a classic. It now extends the period of coverage to 2012 and includes an entirely new chapter on current developments, making this updated edition an essential read for students and scholars in language, linguistics and African Studies.
