In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot

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Publisher : Modjaji Books
ISBN 13 : 1928433081
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot written by Adair, Barbara and published by Modjaji Books. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot is a novel set in Morocco in the 1940s and weaves a story around the well-known writers, Paul and Jane Bowles. Paul was a composer and author of The Sheltering Sky, and Jane was the author of Two Serious Ladies. This mesmerising novel draws the reader into the creative, erotic and exiled minds of Paul and Jane Bowles. Their struggles to write and their struggle to love, both each other and others, creates an unusually rich experience for the reader, and one which is hard to forget.

Postcolonialism

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144380925X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Postcolonialism by : Michael Chapman

Download or read book Postcolonialism written by Michael Chapman and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection poses two overarching questions: Is there a role for the literary imagination in postcolonial studies? And where might one locate South Africa or, more generally, South/African perspectives, in a field delineated primarily by northern institutional purposes and practices? While engaging with contemporary debates the essays seek to turn current postcolonial emphases on theoretical formulations and issue-driven interpretation towards the subjective experience of literary texts in specific contexts. The Introduction, “Postcolonialism: A Literary Turn”, suggests a template of ‘late postcolonialism’ beyond empires writing back to the centre. Instead, ongoing challenges include settler identity, past and present; independent or compromised African/diasporic voices; the character of the postcolony in which the pre-modern, modern, and postmodern contest a single though heterogeneous place, or space; and the ‘voicing’ of the silent subaltern alongside the ‘postcolonialising’ of Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee. Despite the utopian political pronouncements of many postcolonial projects (the West’s own undoing) this collection wishes to stimulate us—students, academics—to see afresh, and comparatively, across worlds. In this, a literary turn may achieve an ethical dimension.

In the Shadow of the Springs I Saw

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Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1928433480
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Springs I Saw written by Barbara Adair and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Shadow of the Springs I Saw is an exploration, and stories, of people who live in the Art Deco buildings of Springs. It is the imagined lives of those who live in a space that is not theirs historically but one that they have reclaimed. This work, in times of doom and complaint, creates a new narrative: one of revival, vigour and celebration. ‘The writing tries to capture the “grain” of a place, object or conversation, as if a swatch were cut from a larger fabric. One could trace the use of similar techniques back to the canonical modernist works of James Joyce, William Faulkner, John Dos Passos, William Carlos Williams or to a later experimenter like Burroughs … Adair uses these techniques with flair and purpose … the book’s method is to declare and contradict, to present one side and then another, keeping both present.’ Ivan Vladislavic

End

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Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 9781770093058
Total Pages : 180 pages
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Book Synopsis End by : Barbara Adair

Download or read book End written by Barbara Adair and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set amidst erupting violence and an edgy, war-torn Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1980s, this brutally witty and unnervingly erotic postmodern novel explores destiny’s uncertainties.

Student Encyclopedia of African Literature

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313054517
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Student Encyclopedia of African Literature by : Douglas Killam

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.

Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303034925X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions by : Oscar Hemer

Download or read book Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions written by Oscar Hemer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an unusual merging of academic and literary practices, this volume attempts to identify a form (or forms) that is congenial with the subject of interrogation: the world in transition, with South Africa as the main focal point. Approaching anthropology from the position of the literary writer, Oscar Hemer here takes the reader through a kaleidoscope of perspectives—a stream-of-consciousness understanding of “writing the city” of Johannesburg, embedding ethnography in subjectivity; a challenge to binaries both temporal and gendered in examining the growth of the IT metropolis Bangalore to a combusting mega-city; an auto-ethnographic interweaving of fictional reportage with a close-reading of anthropological and philosophical treatises, including Mary Douglas’s Purity and Danger and Edouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation, among others—to interrogate themes of transition, identity, purity and variation in the Western Cape. As the form transcends boundaries to create a methodological hybrid, creolization comes to the fore as a theoretical concept and as cultural practice.

Will, the Passenger Delaying Flight

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Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1928215955
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Will, the Passenger Delaying Flight written by Barbara Adair and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man is travelling to Africa from Europe. And yet it is also about waiting waiting for Africa. Volker, a German, leaves his home in Frankfurt for Windhoek. He leaves a lover, he is leaving for a long time, and he does not have a return ticket. He does not know anything about Africa, to him it is one country, not a continent, neither does he really know where he is going to; he just knows that he wants to leave Europe. Lufthansa, the airline that carries him stops at Charles de Gaulle airport and here he waits and waits and waits. And in the airport he observes and describes and thinks. The text is a stream of consciousness, Volkers thoughts. Interspersed with this are stories of people he encounters in the airport; a murderer, a terrorist, a person with dwarfism, a trans woman, a porn star, a terrorist, a child trafficker, a paedophile. All are connected, with each other, with Volker and with us, the readers. Adairs novel is innovative in form, self-conscious and self-critical; it challenges conventional Western assumptions that all good novels have a clear story line, a good plot and fully rounded characters.

Song of the Atman

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Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 9781770091863
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (918 download)

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Book Synopsis Song of the Atman by : Ronnie Govender

Download or read book Song of the Atman written by Ronnie Govender and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2006 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A majestic saga and thoughtful narrative recounting a family's epic struggle, this novel weaves together extraordinary characters bursting with richness, feeling, and dimension. The story of Chin Govender's family is blended into the rich cultural tapestry of Indian life and the intricacies of close communities that form the backdrop for this amazing tale. Painting an evocative portrait of five generations of descendants of former indentured Indian laborers and their struggle to build an identity in an emerging South Africa.

Moving Worlds

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
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Somewhere in the Double Rainbow

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Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Somewhere in the Double Rainbow written by Cheryl Stobie and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bisexuality has been explored in increasing numbers of South African novels published since 1994. In a society previously dominated by an either/or mindset, what does this development signify? The innovative Somewhere in the Double Rainbow answers this question by examining a number of these novels in depth, looking at South African literature, the nation, and citizenship in a new light.

Ice in the Lungs

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Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 9781770092280
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (922 download)

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Book Synopsis Ice in the Lungs by : Gerald Kraak

Download or read book Ice in the Lungs written by Gerald Kraak and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolving around a group of students who are caught up in South Africa's political uprising in 1976, this novel focuses on the parallels drawn between apartheid and experiences in Stalinist Greece. It is a moving story of bravery, betrayal, and unrequited love in which the despair and danger of the characters' lives mirror each other. An inspired study in moral uncertainty, it reveals the conflicting nature of political and sexual choices and their unforeseen consequences.

Urban Generations

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
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Book Synopsis Urban Generations by : David Richards

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Will, the Passenger Delaying Flight...

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ISBN 13 : 9781928215943
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Will, the Passenger Delaying Flight... written by Barbara Adair and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man is travelling to Africa from Europe. And yet it is also about waiting - waiting for Africa. Volker, a German, leaves his home in Frankfurt for Windhoek. He leaves a lover, he is leaving for a long time, and he does not have a return ticket. He does not know anything about Africa, to him it is one country, not a continent, neither does he really know where he is going to; he just knows that he wants to leave Europe. Lufthansa, the airline that carries him stops at Charles de Gaulle airport and here he waits and waits and waits. And in the airport he observes and describes and thinks. The text is a stream of consciousness, Volker's thoughts. Interspersed with this are stories of people he encounters in the airport; a murderer, a terrorist, a person with dwarfism, a trans woman, a porn star, a terrorist, a child trafficker, a paedophile. All are connected, with each other, with Volker and with us, the readers. Adair's novel is innovative in form, self-conscious and self-critical; it challenges conventional Western assumptions that all good novels have a clear story line, a good plot and fully rounded characters.

How We Buried Puso

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Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 9781770090989
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book How We Buried Puso written by Morabo Morojele and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2006 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackling a barrage of relations and eccentrics while dealing with the devastation of war and politics, this poignant narrative explores a country's recent history in a pervasive poetic style. This lyrical account of veiled truths and panoramic splendor--where the true nature of change is revealed in a detailed narrative collage--saturates the senses, shifting masterfully through postcolonial identity, spirituality, and African-ness.

كتابة طنجة

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis كتابة طنجة by : أمين، خالد

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Kaapse bibliotekaris

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book Kaapse bibliotekaris written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-

In the Shadow of the Springs I Saw

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ISBN 13 : 9781928433477
Total Pages : 0 pages
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