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James Currey ALT 20 New Trends and Generations in African
Book SynopsisThis work features articles which examine the works of new African writers who have appeared (or who have developed significantly) in the last two decades in all of the genres.<This work features articles which examine the works of new African writers who have appeared (or who have developed significantly) in the last two decades in all of the genres. North America: Africa World Press
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Writers in Politics
Book SynopsisThis book reflects many of the concerns found in Decolonising the Mind and Moving the Centre.Ngugi has put together a new collection under an old title, rewriting most of the pieces that appeared in the original 1981 edition, and adding completely new essays, such as 'Freedom of Expression', written for the campaign to try to save Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Niger Delta activists and writers from execution in Nigeria. Kenya: EAEPTrade ReviewThe overall impression is that Ngugi has retained the substance and thrust of the earlier text, strengthened the focus and structure of his arguments and made some attempt to recast the polemical bluntness of the first edition. Although, of course, both editions are valuable as explicit markers in the process of Ngugi's developing reformist views, the revised edition, extending and reflecting on its prototype, is unequivocally the better book.- -- Diane Schwerdt * AFSAAP *... from the 1970s on, Ngugi's commitment has never faltered, and his involvement has only become more outspoken and uncompromising, and one function of the re-edition is to bring earlier material more in line with the developments in his political stance since the appearance of the original in 1981. - -- Patrick Williams * JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *
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James Currey Urban Obsessions Urban Fears
Book SynopsisWith a focus on the urban setting of key Kenyan novels.A study of the key Kenyan novels since Ngugi published Weep Not, Child in 1962. North America: Africa World Press; Kenya: EAEPTrade Review... a clearly written, accessible overview of an area of post-colonial writing which continues to suffer from extremely unbalanced critical attention -- Patrick Williams * JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsPart 1 A brief history of the Kenyan novel: literary barrenness? the historical context; the 1960's - the first generation of novels; the 1970's - literary boom; the 1980's and 1990's - the post Kenyatta era. Part 2 Urban obsessions, urban fears: postcolonial urban geography - the evolution of Nairobi; heartbeats and afromances - popular novels and the city; following the "tramp of the damned" - the novels of Meja Mwangi; Nyapol's daughters - women and the city.
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James Currey ALT 27 New Novels in African Literature Today
Book SynopsisThis issue of African Literature Today focuses on new novels by emerging as well as established African novelists.This is a seminal work that discusses the validity of the perception that the new generation of African novelists is remarkably different in vision, style, and worldview from the older generation. The contention is that the oldergeneration novelists who were too close to the colonial period in Africa had invariably made culture-conflict and little else their dominant thematic concern while the younger generation novelists are more versatile in their thematic preoccupations, and are more global in their vision and style. Do the facts in the novels justify and validate these claims? The 13 papers in this volume have been carefully selected to consider these issues. Brenda Cooper a renowned literary scholar from Cape Town writes on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, while Charles Nnolim writes about Adichie's more recent novel Half of a Yellow Sun; Omar Sougou of Universite GastonBerger, Senegal discusses 'ambivalent inscriptions' in Buchi Emecheta's later novels; Clement Okafor of the University of Maryland, addresses the theme of 'racial memory' in Isidore Okpewho's Call Me By My Rightful Name, juxtaposed between the world of the old and the realities of the present. Joseph McLaren, Hofstra University, New York, discusses Ngugi's latest novel, Wizard of the Crow, while Machiko Oike, Hiroshima University, Japan looksat a new theme in African adolescent literature, 'youth in an era of HIV/AIDS'. There is abundant evidence of the contrasts and diversities which characterize the African novel not only geographically, but also ideologically andgenerationally. ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana Studies University of Michigan-Flint. Nigeria: HEBNTable of ContentsEditorial article: The African novel in the 21st century: sustaining the gains of the 20th century - Ernest N. Emenyonu Resurgent spirits, Catholic echoes of Igbo & petals of purple: the syncretised world of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus - Brenda Cooper Ambivalent inscriptions: women, youth & diasporic identity in Buchi Emecheta's later fiction - Omar Sougou The interrupted dance: racial memory in Isidore Okpewho's Call Me By My Rightful Name - Clement Okafor The Ivorian crisis & Ahmadou Kourouma's posthumous political novel Quand on refuse, on dit non - Sery Bailly Women as the 'voice of the people'& the western audience: Ngugi's Wizard of the Crow - Joseph McLaren The ankh & maat: symbols of successful revolution in Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris Rising - Sophie Akhuemokhan A new African youth novel in the era of HIV/AIDS: an analysis of Unity Dow's Far & beyon' - Machiko Oike The prison of Nigerian woman: female complicity in Sefi Atta's Everything Good Will Come - Florence Orabueze Manufacturing skin for Somalia's history: Nuruddin Farah's deep hurt in Links - Tej N. Dhar A Zimbabwean ethic of humanity: Tsitsi Dangarembga's The Book of Not & the unhu philosophy of personhood: - Ada U. Azodo Coming to America: Ike Oguine's A Squatter's Tale & the Nigerian/African immigrant's narrative - Christopher Okonkwo War discourse as fictional narrative: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun - Charles Nnolim Reviews - James Gibbs
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Seagull Books London Ltd Rue Traversiere
Book SynopsisYves Bonnefoy is considered as foremost French poet of his generation. This title features both epigrammatic concision and narratives that meander with the poet's thought as he struggles to understand and express some of the undercurrents of human life. It also includes Bonnefoy childhood cityscapes and explores the tricks memory plays on us.Trade Review"Bonnefoy's poems, prose, texts, and penetrating essays have never ceased to stimulate both the writing of French poetry and the discussion of what its deepest purpose should be.... He is one of the rare contemporary authors for whom writing does not-or should not-conclude in utter despair, but rather in the tendering of hope." (France Magazine)
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Seagull Books London Ltd Paper Collage
Book SynopsisPerros, is best remembered for the autobiographical poems, vignettes, short prose narratives, occasional diary-like notations, critical remarks, and personal essays. This title presents a selection of short texts alongside numerous maxims, a genre in which Perros excelled.
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Seagull Books London Ltd Critical Essays
Book SynopsisCritical Essays (Situations I) contains essays on literature and philosophy from a highly formative period of French philosopher and leading existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's life, the years between 1938 and 1946. This period is particularly interesting because it is before Sartre published the magnum opus that would solidify his name as a philosopher, Being and Nothingness. Instead, during this time Sartre was emerging as one of France's most promising young novelists and playwrights he had already published Nausea, The Age of Reason, The Flies, and No Exit. Not content, however, he was meanwhile consciously attempting to revive the form of the essay via detailed examinations of writers who were to become central to European cultural life in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Collected here are Sartre's experiments in reimagining the idea and structure of the essay. Among the distinguished writers he analyzes are Francis Ponge, Georges Bataille, Vladimir Nabokov, Maurice Blancho
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MP-MAS Uni of Massachusetts Ousmane Sembene
Book SynopsisCelebrates the work of Sembene, the African filmmaker and writer. This work contains critical essays on his oeuvre and is followed by a series of presentations by black writers. There are also remarks on his film ""Camp de Thiaroye"", an interview, and a bibliography of Sembene's novels and films.
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John Wiley & Sons Understanding Edward Albee
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John Wiley & Sons Understanding Joyce Carol Oates
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John Wiley & Sons Understanding Mario Vargas Llosa
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MP-SCA Uni of South Carolina Understanding Ursula K.Le Guin
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Kent State University Press The Pattern in the Web
Book SynopsisFocusing on the quality of the poetry of the writer Charles Williams, this book also pays attention to the religious content of his works. The author places the poetry in the context of the multi-faceted forms of recurring myths and legends that so influenced Williams as a poet.
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MP-KST Kent State Uni To Michal from Serge Letters of Charles Williams
Book SynopsisThese letters to ""Michal"", Charles Williams's endearing name for his wife, from ""Serge"", a moniker by which his close friends addressed him, are more than just a collection of love letters. They throw light on the man himself, his work, and Williams in the context of his literary contemporaries.
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MP-KST Kent State Uni Brainwashing A Study in Cold War Demonology
Book SynopsisThis study of literary and cinematic representations of brainwashing during the Cold War era reviews science fiction, Korean War fiction, and The Manchurian Candidate film. It explores how views on brainwashing changed from an external threat to American values to an internal threat against individual American liberties by the US government.
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MP-KST Kent State Uni Interrupted Music The Making of Tolkiens
Book SynopsisFlieger attempts to illuminate the structure of The Silmarillion, allowing the reader to appreciate its broad, overarching design and its careful, painstaking construction.
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MP-KST Kent State Uni The New Ray Bradbury Review No. 1
Book SynopsisA journal that studies the impact of Ray Bradbury's writings on American culture.
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Cornell University Press Pressed against Divinity
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Cornell University Press Literary Liaisons
Book SynopsisThis work examines the lives and fiction of five modernist women writers whose lovers were also literary figures. Focusing on Anais Nin, Rebecca West, Zelda Fitzgerald, Radclyffe Hall, and HD, it investigates the ways these female authors made use of their relationships in their fiction.Trade Review"Original and highly readable.... A significant contribution to the fields of modernism and women's literature."—Holly Laird, University of TulsaTable of ContentsTable of Contents Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction—"Books Not of the Imagination" 1. The Many Faces of June—Ana\u00efs Nin's Appropriation of Feminine Writing 2. Revenge and Parodic Appropriation in Rebecca West's Sunflower 3. Zelda Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz—Household Plagiarism and Other Crimes of the Heart 4. Accomodation in Radclyffe Hall's The Forge 5. The Writer Self in H.D.'s Auto/biographical Fiction Afterword—Alternative Mentors and Modes of Collaboration Notes Works Cited Index
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Cornell University Press The Colonial Moment
Book SynopsisExplorers, colonists, native peoplesall played a role in early American settlement, and the legacy they left was a turbulent one. During the first three decades of the twentieth century, as the United States asserted itself as a world power, poets began to revisit this legacy and to create their own interpretations of national history. In The Colonial Moment, Jeffrey Westover shows how five major poetsMarianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Hart Crane, and Langston Hughesdrew from national conflicts to assess America''s new role as world leader.Sensitive to the nation''s memory of colonial brutality, these poets mingled their pride in America with moral protest against racism. Some identified a dark side to the nation''s history, particularly in the conflicts between white pioneers and Native Americans, that haunted their otherwise confident celebrations of patriotism. Others used poetry as a vehicle of discovery to challenge existing historical accountsTrade ReviewA very useful and thought-provoking book. * South Atlantic Review *Westover's study is as theoretically well informed and sensible as it is poetically sensitive. * Choice *The Colonial Moment provides a persuasive portrait of several early modernist poets as sharing a tendency to mythologize and de-mythologize questions of nationality and origins in their poetic representations of their own age and values. * Modernism/Modernity *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Discoveries and Settlements in Modern American Poetry 1. Marianne Moore's Geography of Origins 2. Nation and Enunciation in the Work of William Carlos Williams 3. National Forgetting and Remembering in the Poetry of Robert Frost 4. Empire and America in the Poetry of Hart Crane 5. Fragmentation and Diaspora in the Work of Langston Hughes Epilogue: "We the People" in an Imperial Republic Notes Works Cited Index
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Cornell University Press Alternative Kinships
Book SynopsisAccording to Marx, the family is the primal scene of the division of labor and the germ of every exploitative practice. In this insightful study, Jacob Emery examines the Soviet Union''s programmatic effort to institute a global siblinghood of the proletariat, revealing how alternative kinships motivate different economic relations and make possible other artistic forms. A time in which literary fiction was continuous with the social fictions that organize the social economy, the early Soviet period magnifies the interaction between the literary imagination and the reproduction of labor onto a historical scale. Narratives dating back to the ancient world feature scenes in which a child looks into a mirror and sees someone else reflected there, typically a parent. In such scenes, two definitions of the aesthetic coincide: art as a fantastic space that shows an alternate reality and art as a mirror that reflects the world as it is. In early Soviet literature, mirror scenes illu
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Cornell University Press Alternative Kinships
Book SynopsisJacob Emery examines the Soviet Union's programmatic effort to institute a global siblinghood of the proletariat, revealing how alternative kinships motivate different economic relations and make possible other artistic forms.Trade Review"This is an excellent book; it will be very important for the field of Russian studies. Emery is a scholar to watch." --Eliot Borenstein, New York University "Jacob Emery is extremely erudite and summons an impressive array of philosophical and theoretical texts to develop his argumentation, drawing upon a deep knowledge of both Russian and Western European literature. The analyses of individual works are fresh and illuminating." --Jenny Kaminer, author of Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Eudora Welty
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Peter Taylor
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Tom Wolfe
Book SynopsisLiterary journalist, “lowly social historian”, “chronicler of his times”, and “champion of realism” are among the many epithets heaped upon Tom Wolfe. In this collection of interviews spanning his richly productive career, Wolfe is seen as a writer imitating no one and riding the crest of each latest wave in contemporary America.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Nadine Gordimer
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Reynolds Price
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Graham Greene
Book SynopsisThis collection of seventeen interviews covers fifty years. In all the interviews Graham Greene granted over the years, the reader hears very clearly the voice of a man whose conversation is as painfully honest and unpretentious as is his written prose.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
Book SynopsisOut of this collection of twenty-two interviews spanning two decades rises the distinctive voice of “the princess of black poetry”. Nikki Giovanni entered the literary world at the height of the Black Arts Movement and quickly achieved not simple fame but stardom, a phenomenon almost unprecedented for a poet.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Toni Morrison
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of interviews, beginning in 1974, with Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison describes herself as an African-American writer, and these essays show her to be an artist whose creativity is intimately linked with her African-American experience.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with John Updike Literary Conversations S
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi More Conversations with Eudora Welty
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop
Book SynopsisBrings together almost all of the known interviews Elizabeth Bishop gave over a period of thirty years. Included also are a few selected pieces based on conversations with her. All together they allow her ardent and admiring readers a rewarding, close-up encounter with one of America's great writers.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
Book SynopsisIntense, controversial, unfailingly clever, V. S. Naipaul has won nearly every major British writing award. This collection brings together interviews from a thirty-six-year span and reveals a witty, sometimes scathing talker with a free-ranging curiosity, but one who dreads intimacy and cherishes a solitary detachment.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Agatha Christie Companion
Book SynopsisA short history of Dame Agatha's life, criticism of her works, and a summary of how critics and reviewers view her work. This book includes a bibliography of all the works of Christie; an alphabetical list of Christie detective and mystery book and short-story titles; a short-story finder for Christie collections; and more.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Gentle Art of Murder The Detective Fiction
Book SynopsisA study of the technique of Agatha Christie's detective fiction. Providing an analysis of her accomplishments as a writer, the author demonstrates that Christie thoroughly understood the conventions of her genre and, with seemingly inexhaustible ingenuity, was able to develop for several years surprising variations within those conventions.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Gothic World of Stephen King Landscape of
Book SynopsisStephen King's popularity lies in his ability to reinterpret the standard Gothic tale in new and exciting ways. He thus creates his own Gothic world and then interprets it for us. This book analyzes King's interpretations and his mastery of popular literature. The essays discuss adolescent revolt, the artist as survivor, and more.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Poetry of the People Poems to the President 19291945
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Gothic World of Anne Rice
Book SynopsisAn anthology that argues for the serious study of the literary oeuvre of Anne Rice. The essays assert that Rice expands the conventions of the horror genre's formula to examine important social issues. She searches for philosophical truth, examining themes of good and evil, the influence on people and society of both nature and nurture.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Cordially Yours Brother Cadfael
Book SynopsisDetective, monk, father, herbalist, former Crusader and sailor, Celt, friend - author Ellis Peters bestows these attributes on her twelfth-century Benedictine monk-detective, Brother Cadfael. As a detective, Cadfael uses his analytic mind to solve crimes and administer justice. As a man of God, he dispenses mercy along with his famous cordials.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin As American as Mom Baseball and Apple Pie The
Book SynopsisRedefines the genre of horror fiction, calling into question the usual conventions, motifs, and elements. Unlike many critics of this genre, the author sees dis/affirmative horror fiction acting neither to soothe fears nor reduce them to the vicarious ""thrills 'n' chills"" mode, but as intensifying the fears inherent in everyday life.
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East European Monographs Political and Social Issues in Poland as
Book SynopsisAn invaluable collection of studies on major social and political issues in post-World War II Poland as reflected in the Polish novel.
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East European Monographs A Return to the Roots Conrad Poland and Central
Book SynopsisConrad's relationship to Poland - the evolution of his attitude toward his homeland, the influence of Polish literature on his work, his reception by Polish audiences - and to Russian literature, particularly Dostoevsky and Turgenev, is discussed in fourteen papers written by scholars from the United States, Europe and beyond.
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East European Monographs Conrad in Germany
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewConrad in Germany is a valuable contribution to the study of Conrad. Slavic and East European Journal
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East European Monographs intherealmsofbiographyliteraturepoliticsandrecepti
Book SynopsisThe literary studies comprised in nineteenth volume of the Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives series, compare fact v. fiction/non-fiction, ideas, literary works, translations, literature and film. The works by Joseph Conrad analyzed in this volume comprise Almayer's Folly, Heart of Darkness, Amy Foster, Under Western Eyes, Prince Roman, Conrad's non-fictional writings and his entire literary output. The variety of studies in reception of Conrad's works comprise a comprehensive factual survey of reception in one country and various types of creative reception: literary, translatory, artistic inspiration and influence, filmic. The reception sub-cluster shows various types of works of art in which Conradian patterns have been received: mostly literary prose, but also drama and theatricality, non-fictional prose, film.The volume presents not only various kinds of literary studies in the strict sense of the word but also those of the disciplines of humanities bordering on them, such as biography, studies in politics, history, axiology, filmic studies, translation studies and even remote ones (navigation studies). The great variety of issues of biography, politics, literature and reception considered here - as related to Conrad and to various Polish and East-Central European matters and contexts - hopefully comprises innovatory considerations by either taking up new issues or significantly reinterpreting old ones.
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East European Monographs Conrad and Turgenev Towards the Real
Book SynopsisThe twentieth volume in the Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives series, Conrad and Turgenev: Towards the Real offers a comparative analysis of Joseph Conrad's and Ivan Turgenev's output and focuses on their outlooks and ideas concerning art, personality, and history. The analysis is based on Conrad's and Turgenev's major novels such as Lord Jim, Nostromo, Almayer's Folly, And Outcast of the Islands, The Return, Victory, The Secret Agent and Rudin, Home of the Gentry, One the Eve, Fathers and Sons, Smoke, as well as selected novellas, short stories, essays and letters. The affinities and differences between the two writers are discussed within the framework of realism and modernism. Main problems addressed are the relation between reality and representation in the two author's major works; the concept of the self and its duality, and the pessimistic vision of history devoid of purpose. The study is intended to highlight the affinities between Conrad and Turgenev, to acquaint the readers with those aspects of Turgenev's output that form the context for Conrad's oeuvre, to trace the echoes of Turgenev's aesthetics and worldview in Conrad's texts and to show how Conrad, a disciple of great realist masters, balanced his new modernist awareness against Turgenev who relies on the framework of realism.
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John Wiley & Sons Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad
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Ohio University Press Swahili beyond the Boundaries
Book SynopsisAfrica is a marriage of cultures: African and Asian, Islamic and Euro-Christian. Nowhere is this fusion more evident than in the formation of Swahili, Eastern Africa's lingua franca, and its cultures.Trade Review“Confidently traversing a vast territory and deftly combining sociolinguistics with postcolonial theory.... Highly recommended.” * Choice *“Mazrui provides a fascinating, clear and insightful account of the development of Swahili literature, and the continually shifting hybridity that is such an essential component of its boundaries.” * African Studies Quarterly *“Erudite and lucidly written, Swahili beyond Borders is no doubt an outstanding contribution to the study of African literatures and languages in general, and Swahili studies in particular.” * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“Mazrui challenges the longstanding claim of Swahili identity as dependent on ethnicity and historical specificity; instead, he shows the hybrid, multicultural, and transnational nature of Swahili identity.” * African Studies Review *
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