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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCSD:31822037794617
Journal of African languages and literature.
Author : Werner Graebner
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 9051833377
Author : Alison Des Forges
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299281434
A Rwandan proverb says “Defeat is the only bad news.” For Rwandans living under colonial rule, winning called not only for armed confrontation, but also for a battle of wits—and not only with foreigners, but also with each other. In Defeat Is the Only Bad News Alison Des Forges recounts the ambitions, strategies, and intrigues of an African royal court under Yuhi Musinga, the Rwandan ruler from 1896 to 1931. These were turbulent years for Rwanda, when first Germany and then Belgium pursued an aggressive plan of colonization there. At the time of the Europeans’ arrival, Rwanda was also engaged in a succession dispute after the death of one of its most famous kings. Against this backdrop, the Rwandan court became the stage for a drama of Shakespearean proportions, filled with deceit, shrewd calculation, ruthless betrayal, and sometimes murder. Historians who study European expansion typically focus on interactions between colonizers and colonized; they rarely attend to relations among the different factions inhabiting occupied lands. Des Forges, drawing on oral histories and extensive archival research, reveals how divisions among different groups in Rwanda shaped their responses to colonial governments, missionaries, and traders. Rwandans, she shows, used European resources to extend their power, even as they sought to preserve the autonomy of the royal court. Europeans, for their part, seized on internal divisions to advance their own goals. Des Forges’s vividly narrated history, meticulously edited and introduced by David Newbury, provides a deep context for understanding the Rwandan civil war a century later.
Author : Siga Fatima Jagne,Pushpa Naidu Parekh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136593970
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 : СтаВл Зосимов Премудрословски
Publisher : Litres
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785042241734
Wannan tarin yana ba da labarin rayuwar mafi ƙasƙancin ƙasa na yawan ofan ƙasar Rasha mai iko, mai ƙoshin ƙarfi da wadata.Amma mutanen Rasha marasa gida ba su yanke ƙauna kuma suna samun farin ciki a komai.Babu siyasa, akwai kawai rayuwa mai sauƙi na waɗannan baƙin. Su ne ruhun Rasha, duniya mai daidaituwa kuma wani ɓangare a ciki yana buɗe ga kowa.Karanta kuma ka ji daɗi, amma kada a kama ka. Donald Trump din ya so wannan sabon labari...# Dukkan hakkoki..
Author : Mark Janse,Hella Olbertz,Sijmen Tol
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1484 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402017162
Setting out the historical national and religious characteristics of the Italians as they impact on the integration within the European Union, this study makes note of the two characteristics that have an adverse effect on Italian national identity: cleavages between north and south and the dominant role of family. It discusses how for Italians family loyalty is stronger than any other allegiance, including feelings towards their country, their nation, or the EU. Due to such subnational allegiances and values, this book notes that Italian civic society is weaker and engagement at the grass roots is less robust than one finds in other democracies, leaving politics in Italy largely in the hands of political parties. The work concludes by noting that EU membership, however, provides no magic bullet for Italy: it cannot change internal cleavages, the Italian worldview, and family values or the country’s mafia-dominated power matrix, and as a result, the underlying absence of fidelity to a shared polity—Italian or European—leave the country as ungovernable as ever.
Author : Ann Biersteker,Ibrahim Noor Shariff
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995-04-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780870138942
Mashairi Ya Vita Vya Kuduhu is a presentation and discussion of both manuscript and published versions of poems written by Lamu poets around the time of the Battle of Kuduhu. The poetic dialogue studied in this volume has played a significant role in the history of Swahili poetry, and its primary concern is to inform continued work in this area. The poems contained in this work were transmitted and preserved by speakers of Kiswahili and later collected and preserved by scholars. Chapter One contains the edited poems; Chapter Two consists of the translations. Subsequent chapters include accounts of the Battle of Kuduhu, editing and translating practices, and annotated poems and source versions. This work is presented as an example of the importance of research, fieldwork, and the consideration of available versions and alternative styles of presentation in the study of Swahili poetry.
Author : Sijmen Tol,Hella Olbertz,Mark Janse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1674 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402030088
Bibliographie Linguistique/ Linguistic Bibliography is the annual bibliography of linguistics published by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists under the auspices of the International Council of Philosophy and Humanistic Studies of UNESCO. With a tradition of more than fifty years (the first two volumes, covering the years 1939-1947, were published in 1949-1950), Bibliographie Linguistique is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field. It covers all branches of linguistics, both theoretical and descriptive, from all geographical areas, including less known and extinct languages, with particular attention to the many endangered languages of the world. Up-to-date information is guaranteed by the collaboration of some forty contributing specialists from all over the world. With over 20,000 titles arranged according to a detailed state-of-the-art classification, Bibliographie Linguistique remains the standard reference book for every scholar of language and linguistics.
Author : Barbara Fister
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313032776
This reference volume serves as a companion to Third World women's literatures in English and in English translation by presenting entries on works, writers, and themes. Entries are chosen to present a balance of well-known writers and emerging ones, contemporary as well as historical writers, and representative selections of genres, literary styles, and themes. What plays have been written by women in the developing world? What books have been written by Sri Lankan or Brazilian women? Which works address themes of feminism or exile or politics in the Third World? These are the types of questions that can now be answered through Fister's companion to Third World women's literatures in English and English translation. Organized alphabetically, this reference volume presents entries on works, writers, and themes. Entries are chosen to present a balance of well-known writers and emerging ones, contemporary as well as historical writers, and representative selections of genres, literary styles, and themes. By providing information about and leads to works by and about Third World women, an important and largely marginalized literature, Fister has created a unique reference tool that will help teachers, scholars, and librarians, both public and academic, expand their definitions of the literary, making the voices of Third World women available in the same format in which many companions to Western literature do. An important book for all public and college-level libraries.
Author : Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253211492
"This is a cogent analysis of the complexities of gender in the work of nine contemporary Anglophone and Francophone novelists. . . . offers illuminating interpretations of worthy writers . . . " —Multicultural Review "This book reaffirms Bessie Head's remark that books are a tool, in this case a tool that allows readers to understand better the rich lives and the condition of African women. Excellent notes and a rich bibliography." —Choice ". . . a college-level analysis which will appeal to any interested in African studies and literature." —The Bookwatch This book applies gender as a category of analysis to the works of nine sub-Saharan women writers: Aidoo, Bá, Beyala, Dangarembga, Emecheta, Head, Liking, Tlali, and Zanga Tsogo. The author appropriates western feminist theories of gender in an African literary context, and in the process, she finds and names critical theory that is African, indigenous, self-determining, which she then melds with western feminist theory and comes out with an over-arching theory that enriches western, post-colonial and African critical perspectives.
Author : Paul Stoller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226775494
"This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies."—Choice "Stoller brilliantly recreates the reality of spirit presence; hosts are what they mediate, and spirits become flesh and blood in the 'fusion' with human existence. . . . An excellent demonstration of the benefits of a new genre of ethnographic writing. It expands our understanding of the harsh world of Songhay mediums and sorcerers."—Bruce Kapferer, American Ethnologist "A vivid story that will appeal to a wide audience. . . . The voices of individual Songhay are evident and forceful throughout the story. . . . Like a painter, [Stoller] is concerned with the rich surface of things, with depicting images, evoking sensations, and enriching perceptions. . . . He has succeeded admirably." —Michael Lambek, American Anthropologist "Events (ceremonies and life histories) are evoked in cinematic style. . . . [This book is] approachable and absorbing—it is well written, uncluttered by jargon and elegantly structured."—Richard Fardon, Times Higher Education Supplement "Compelling, insightful, rich in ethnographic detail, and worthy of becoming a classic in the scholarship on Africa."—Aidan Southall, African Studies Review
Author : Philip M. Peek,Kwesi Yankah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135948733
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
Author : Harold Scheub
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299290733
The trickster and the hero, found in so many of the world’s oral traditions, are seemingly opposed but often united in one character. Trickster and Hero provides a comparative look at a rich array of world oral traditions, folktales, mythologies, and literatures—from The Odyssey, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Beowulf to Native American and African tales. Award-winning folklorist Harold Scheub explores the “Trickster moment,” the moment in the story when the tale, the teller, and the listener are transformed: we are both man and woman, god and human, hero and villain. Scheub delves into the importance of trickster mythologies and the shifting relationships between tricksters and heroes. He examines protagonists that figure centrally in a wide range of oral narrative traditions, showing that the true hero is always to some extent a trickster as well. The trickster and hero, Scheub contends, are at the core of storytelling, and all the possibilities of life are there: we are taken apart and rebuilt, dismembered and reborn, defeated and renewed.
Author : Dubem Okafor
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0865435553
Christopher Okigbo (1932-1967) was one of Africa's foremost poets until his life was cut short by the Biafran civil war. This work analyses his poetry and considers its importance as prophecy in the light of the current concern about the direction of the Nigerian government.
Author : H. Borkent,J.J. Beylsmit,Mark Janse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1985-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9024731429