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Author : Adele King
Publisher : London ; Ibadan [Nigeria] : Heinemann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Writings of Camara Laye written by Adele King and published by London ; Ibadan [Nigeria] : Heinemann. This book was released on 1980 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adele King
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803227521
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Rereading Camara Laye written by Adele King and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camara Laye (1928?80) traveled to France from his native Guinea in 1947 on a scholarship to study automobile mechanics. While there, he was encouraged by a supporterøof the French Union to record the memories of his childhood. The resulting book, L'Enfant noir, was praised for its style and its uncritical attitude toward French colonization. A year later Laye published Le Regard du roi, a Kafkaesque story of a white man in Africa, which was very different in tone, style, and content from L'Enfant noir and from any other African literature being published at the time. L'Enfant noir and Le Regard du roi became seminal works of African fiction in French and were translated into English as The African Child and The Radiance of the King. Adele King met Camara Laye in 1978, two years before his death, and in 1980 published the principal study about him, The Writings of Camara Laye. In 1991 King set out to disprove rumors that Laye was not the author of one of his novels, Le Regard du roi. Instead she became convinced that the rumors were true and in the process unexpectedly discovered a far more interesting story about the creation of Laye as an author and public figure. Rereading Camara Laye describes King's research, which has taken more than ten years. Her inquiry involved finding those who knew Laye in Paris in the 1950s and interviewing them when possible as well as examining documents in libraries and archives in France and Belgium. King's findings provide important insights into French publishing and colonial politics in the years following World War II. She also shows how interpretations of Laye's novels have been shaped by the assumption that they were written by an African.
Author : Laye Camara
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780143026785
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Dark Child written by Laye Camara and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Child is a vivid and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Kouroussa, French Guinea, a place steeped in mystery. Laye marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village goldsmith, and his own passage into manhood, which is marked by animistic beliefs and bloody rituals. Eventually, he must choose between this unique place and the academic success that lures him to distant cities. More than autobiography of one boy, this is the universal story of sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world. A passionate and deeply affecting record, The Dark Child is a classic of African literature.
Author : Laye Camara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (76 download)
Download or read book A Dream of Africa written by Laye Camara and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helon Habila
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1847084389
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Granta Book of the African Short Story written by Helon Habila and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent, from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya. Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers - contrasted with some of their older, more established peers - to give a fascinating picture of a new and more liberated Africa. These writers are characterized by their engagement with the wider world and the opportunities offered by the end of apartheid, the end of civil wars and dictatorships, and the possibilities of free movement. Their work is inspired by travel and exile. They are liberated, global and expansive. As Dambudzo Marechera wrote: 'If you're a writer for a specific nation or specific race, then f*** you." These are the stories of a new Africa, punchy, self-confident and defiant. Includes stories by: Fatou Diome; Aminatta Forna; Manuel Rui; Patrice Nganang; Leila Aboulela; Zo Wicomb; Alaa Al Aswany; Doreen Baingana; E.C. Osondu.
Author : Camara Laye
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174550
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Radiance of the King written by Camara Laye and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of this masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked on the coast of Africa. Flush with self-importance, he demands to see the king, but the king has just left for the south of his realm. Traveling through an increasingly phantasmagoric landscape in the company of a beggar and two roguish boys, Clarence is gradually stripped of his pretensions, until he is sold to the royal harem as a slave. But in the end Clarence’s bewildering journey is the occasion of a revelation, as he discovers the image, both shameful and beautiful, of his own humanity in the alien splendor of the king.
Author : Camara Laye
Publisher : NYRB Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Radiance of the King written by Camara Laye and published by NYRB Classics. This book was released on 1971 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of this masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked on the coast of Africa. Flush with self-importance, he demands to see the king, but the king has just left for the south of his realm. Traveling through an increasingly phantasmagoric landscape in the company of a beggar and two roguish boys, Clarence is gradually stripped of his pretensions, until he is sold to the royal harem as a slave. But in the end Clarence’s bewildering journey is the occasion of a revelation, as he discovers the image, both shameful and beautiful, of his own humanity in the alien splendor of the king.
Author : Laye Camara
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Guardian of the Word written by Laye Camara and published by Vintage Books USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laye Camara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The African Child written by Laye Camara and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Weldon Johnson
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man written by James Weldon Johnson and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the year 1912, 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to as the "Ex-Colored Man", living in post-Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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 : Sebagenzi wa Lulenga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Ideological Development in the Writings of Camara Laye written by Sebagenzi wa Lulenga and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604730173
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (31 download)
Download or read book What Moves at the Margin written by Toni Morrison and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting three decades of Morrison's writings about her work, life, literature, and American society, this collection provides a unique glimpse into her viewpoint as an observer of the world, the arts, and the changing landscape of American culture.
Author : Hamidou Kane
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435901196
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Ambiguous Adventure written by Hamidou Kane and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1972 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sambo Diallo is unable to identify with the soulless material civilization he finds in France, where he is sent to learn the secrets of the white man's power.
Author : Charles R. Larson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374211787
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Under African Skies written by Charles R. Larson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of short stories by African writers from a dozen countries. The subjects range from war and politics to problems with domestics and African humor. Some stories were written in English, others are translations from Arabic, French and Portuguese. All were written in the latter part of the 20th century.
Author : Grant H. Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Writings of Camara Laye and Abdoulaye Sadji written by Grant H. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adele King
Publisher : London ; Ibadan [Nigeria] : Heinemann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Writings of Camara Laye written by Adele King and published by London ; Ibadan [Nigeria] : Heinemann. This book was released on 1980 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
