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The Secret History of Las Vegas

Author : Chris Abani
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143124951
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of Las Vegas written by Chris Abani and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gritty, riveting, and wholly original murder mystery from PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author and 2015 Edgar Awards winner Chris Abani Before he can retire, Las Vegas detective Salazar is determined to solve a recent spate of murders. When he encounters a pair of conjoined twins with a container of blood near their car, he’s sure he has apprehended the killers, and enlists the help of Dr. Sunil Singh, a South African transplant who specializes in the study of psychopaths. As Sunil tries to crack the twins, the implications of his research grow darker. Haunted by his betrayal of loved ones back home during apartheid, he seeks solace in the love of Asia, a prostitute with hopes of escaping that life. But Sunil’s own troubled past is fast on his heels in the form of a would-be assassin. Suspenseful through the last page, The Secret History of Las Vegas is Chris Abani’s most accomplished work to date, with his trademark visionary prose and a striking compassion for the inner lives of outsiders.

Artefacts of Writing

Author : Peter D. McDonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191038261
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Artefacts of Writing written by Peter D. McDonald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to readers of all kinds, including professional literary critics. In Artefacts of Writing, Peter D. McDonald argues they pose as much of a challenge to the way states conceptualise language, culture, and community. Drawing on a wealth of evidence, from Victorian scholarly disputes over the identity of the English language to the constitutional debates about its future in Ireland, India, and South Africa, and from the quarrels over the idea of culture within the League of Nations in the interwar years to UNESCO's ongoing struggle to articulate a viable concept of diversity, McDonald brings together a large ensemble of legacy writers, including T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Rabindranath Tagore, putting them in dialogue with each other and with the policy-makers who shaped the formation of modern states and the history of internationalist thought from the 1860s to the 1940s. In the second part of the book, he reflects on the continuing evolution of these dialogues, showing how a varied array of more contemporary writers from Amit Chaudhuri, J. M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie to Antjie Krog, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, and Es'kia Mphahlele cast new light on a range of questions concerning education, literacy, human rights, translation, indigenous knowledge, and cultural diversity that have preoccupied UNESCO since 1945. At once a novel contribution to institutional and intellectual history and an innovative exercise in literary and philosophical analysis, Artefacts of Writing affords a unique perspective on literature's place at the centre of some of the most fraught, often lethal public controversies that defined the long-twentieth century and that continue to haunt us today

Acta Universitatis Lundensis

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Acta Universitatis Lundensis written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Down Second Avenue

Author : Es'kia Mphahlele
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101616792
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Down Second Avenue written by Es'kia Mphahlele and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Es’kia Mphahlele’s seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa—available for the first time in Penguin Classics Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es’kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African writing. Down Second Avenue is a landmark book that describes Mphahlele’s experience growing up in segregated South Africa. Vivid, graceful, and unapologetic, it details a daily life of severe poverty and brutal police surveillance under the subjugation of an apartheid regime. Banned in South Africa after its original 1959 publication for its protest against apartheid, Down Second Avenue is a foundational work of literature that continues to inspire activists today. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 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.

Foundational African Writers

Author : Bhekizizwe Peterson
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1776147510
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Foundational African Writers written by Bhekizizwe Peterson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-06 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection were written in celebration of the centenaries, in 2019, of Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Cyril Lincoln Nyembezi and Es'kia Mphahlele, all of whom were born in 1919. All four centenarians lived rich and diverse lives across several continents. In the years following the Second World War they produced more than half a century of foundational creative writing and literary criticism, and made stellar contributions to the founding and enhancement of institutions and repertoires of African and black arts and letters in South Africa and internationally. As a result, their lifeworlds and oeuvres present sharp and multifaceted engagements with and generative insights into a wide range of issues, including precolonial existence, colonialism, empire, race, culture, identity, class, the language question, tradition, modernity, exile, Pan-Africanism, and decolonisation.

Yearbook

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1524 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Undergraduate's Companion to African Writers and Their Web Sites

Author : Miriam E. Conteh-Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313068992
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Undergraduate's Companion to African Writers and Their Web Sites written by Miriam E. Conteh-Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-10-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a firmly established part of world literature course offerings in many general education curricula, African literature is no longer housed exclusively with African Studies programs, and is often studied in English, French, Portuguese, Women's Studies, and Comparative Studies departments. This book helps fill the great need for research materials on this topic, presenting the best resources available for 300 African writers. These writers have been carefully selected to include both well-known writers and those less commonly studied yet highly influential. They are drawn from both the Sub-Sahara and the Maghreb, the major geographical regions of Africa. The study of Africa was introduced into the curriculum of institutions of higher learning in the United States in the 1960s, when the Black Consciousness movement in the United States and the Cold War and decolonization movements in Africa created a need for the systematic study of other regions of the world. Between 1986 and 1991, three Africans won Nobel literature prizes: Soyinka, Mahfouz, and Gordimer, and the visibility of African writers increased. They are now a firmly established part of world literature courses in many general education curricula throughout North America. African Writers is meant to serve as a resource for introductory material on 300 writers from 39 countries. These writers were selected on the basis on two criteria: that there is material on them in an easily available reference work; and that there is some information of research value on free Web sites. Each writer is from the late-19th or 20th century, with the notable exception of Olaudah Equiano, an 18th-century African whose slave narrative is generally considered the first work of African literature. All entries are annotated.

Es'kia

Author : Es'kia Mphahlele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Es'kia written by Es'kia Mphahlele and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays and public addresses of scholar, teacher, philosopher, and activist Es'kia Mphahlele are presented in this collection spanning 40 years of recent African history. The intellectual and distinctly South African perspective exhibited in these writings is enriched by humor and autobiographical anecdotes. Subjects addressed include African literature and literary criticism, education in a democratic South Africa, relations between Africans and African Americans, negritude, African identity, and African humanism. A critical introduction, full biography, bibliography, and brief synopsis of each essay are included.

Down Second Avenue

Author : Ezekiel Mphahlele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Down Second Avenue written by Ezekiel Mphahlele and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Acta Regiae societatis physiographicae lundensis

Author : Kungl. Fysiografiska sällskapet i Lund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Acta Regiae societatis physiographicae lundensis written by Kungl. Fysiografiska sällskapet i Lund and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English in Africa

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book English in Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Word Order

Author : Swapan Chakravorty
Publisher : Worldview Publications
ISBN 13 : 8192065111
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book New Word Order written by Swapan Chakravorty and published by Worldview Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond

Author : Martin Chase
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823257835
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond written by Martin Chase and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond shines light on traditional divisions of Old Norse–Icelandic poetry and awakens the reader to work that blurs these boundaries. Many of the texts and topics taken up in these enlightening essays have been difficult to categorize and have consequently been overlooked or undervalued. The boundaries between genres (Eddic and Skaldic), periods (Viking Age, medieval, early modern), or cultures (Icelandic, Scandinavian, English, Continental) may not have been as sharp in the eyes and ears of contemporary authors and audiences as they are in our own. When questions of classification are allowed to fade into the background, at least temporarily, the poetry can be appreciated on its own terms. Some of the essays in this collection present new material, while others challenge long-held assumptions. They reflect the idea that poetry with “medieval” characteristics continued to be produced in Iceland well past the fifteenth century, and even beyond the Protestant Reformation in Iceland (1550). This superb volume, rich in up-to-date scholarship, makes little-known material accessible to a wide audience.

Better Plants and Animals

Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Better Plants and Animals written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Politics of English as a World Language

Author : Christian Mair
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042008762
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of English as a World Language written by Christian Mair and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex politics of English as a world language provides the backdrop both for linguistic studies of varieties of English around the world and for postcolonial literary criticism. The present volume offers contributions from linguists and literary scholars that explore this common ground in a spirit of open interdisciplinary dialogue. Leading authorities assess the state of the art to suggest directions for further research, with substantial case studies ranging over a wide variety of topics - from the legitimacy of language norms of lingua franca communication to the recognition of newer post-colonial varieties of English in the online OED. Four regional sections treat the Caribbean (including the diaspora), Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Australasia and the Pacific Rim. Each section maintains a careful balance between linguistics and literature, and external and indigenous perspectives on issues. The book is the most balanced, complete and up-to-date treatment of the topic to date.

The African Image. --

Author : Ezekiel Mphahlele
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014993328
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The African Image. -- written by Ezekiel Mphahlele and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Bury Me at the Marketplace

Author : N. Chabani Manganyi
Publisher : Wits University Press
ISBN 13 : 1868144895
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Bury Me at the Marketplace written by N. Chabani Manganyi and published by Wits University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Chabani Manganyi published the first edition of selected letters twenty-five years ago as a companion volume to Exiles and Homecomings: A Biography of Es’kia Mphahlele, the idea of Mphahlele’s death was remote and poetic. The title, Bury Me at the Marketplace, suggested that immortality of a kind awaited Mphahlele, in the very coming and going of those who remember him and whose lives he touched. It suggested, too, the energy and magnanimity of Mphahlele, the man, whose personality and intellect as a writer and educator would carve an indelible place for him in South Africa’s public sphere. That death has now come and we mourn it. Manganyi’s words at the time have acquired a new significance: in the symbolic marketplace, he noted, ‘the drama of life continues relentlessly and the silence of death is unmasked for all time’. The silence of death is certainly unmasked in this volume, in its record of Mphahlele’s rich and varied life: his private words, his passions and obsessions, his arguments, his loves, hopes, achievements, and yes, even some of his failures. Here the reader will find many facets of the private man translated back into the marketplace of public memory. Despite the personal nature of the letters, the further horizons of this volume are the contours of South Africa’s literary and cultural history, the international affiliations out of which it has been formed, particularly in the diaspora that connects South Africa to the rest of the African continent and to the black presence in Europe and the United States. This selection of Mphahlele’s own letters has been greatly expanded; it has also been augmented by the addition of letters from Mphahlele’s correspondents, among them such luminaries as Langston Hughes and Nadine Gordimer. It seeks to illustrate the networks that shaped Mphahlele’s personal and intellectual life, the circuits of intimacy, intellectual inquiry, of friendship, scholarship and solidarity that he created and nurtured over the years. The letters cover the period from November 1943 to April 1987, forty-four of Mphahlele’s mature years and most of his active professional life. The correspondence is supplemented by introductory essays from the two editors, by two interviews conducted with Mphahlele by Manganyi and by Attwell’s insightful explanatory notes.