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Signifies a pivotal moment in African literature, a deliberate challenge to colonialism, and a new kind of African writing

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In [this] anti-colonial novel, the principle character is an ordinary young man who tries to achieve success on his own terms in a society in which the old represent a disintegrated traditional Africa and the young acquire useless knowledge in French school for travels that lead nowhere.

* The Companion to African Literatures *

A persuasive, even gripping study of a spiteful, naïve character.

* Kirkus Reviews *

With every new translation in its Global African Voices series, Indiana University Press, USA, moves a step fruther towards the realisation of its goal of overcoming the fragmentariness of modern African literature by intergrating originally French-language literary works into the English-language stream.

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Cruel City A Novel

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    A Paperback / softback by Mongo Beti, Pim Higginson

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/02/2013
      ISBN13: 9780253008237, 978-0253008237
      ISBN10: 0253008239

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Signifies a pivotal moment in African literature, a deliberate challenge to colonialism, and a new kind of African writing

      Trade Review

      In [this] anti-colonial novel, the principle character is an ordinary young man who tries to achieve success on his own terms in a society in which the old represent a disintegrated traditional Africa and the young acquire useless knowledge in French school for travels that lead nowhere.

      * The Companion to African Literatures *

      A persuasive, even gripping study of a spiteful, naïve character.

      * Kirkus Reviews *

      With every new translation in its Global African Voices series, Indiana University Press, USA, moves a step fruther towards the realisation of its goal of overcoming the fragmentariness of modern African literature by intergrating originally French-language literary works into the English-language stream.

      * Saturday Nation *

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