Land Freedom And Fiction

Author : David Maughan Brown
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786990112

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Land, Freedom and Fiction by David Maughan Brown Pdf

This now classic work examines the contrasting ways in which the Mau Mau struggle for land and independence in Kenya was mirrored, and usually distorted, by successive generations of English and white Kenyan authors, as well as by indigenous Kenyan novelists. Against the turbulent background of the Mau Mau Uprising, Dr Maughan-Brown explores the relationship between history, literary creation and the myths that societies cultivate. Spanning the breadth of colonial and post-colonial African literature, his subjects range from the colonialist authors Robert Ruark and Elspeth Huxley to the post-independence novels of Meja Mwangi and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Maughan-Brown's book is invaluable on many levels. He presents a concise account of the uprising and its place in Kenyan identity, and significantly increases our understanding of settler attitudes and the role of literature within colonial ideology. Land, Freedom and Fiction succeeds in showing the subtle insights a materialist approach can bring to the study of literature, ideology and society.

Author : David Maughan Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786990129

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Land, Freedom and Fiction by David Maughan Brown Pdf

This now classic work examines the contrasting ways in which the Mau Mau struggle for land and independence in Kenya was mirrored, and usually distorted, by successive generations of English and white Kenyan authors, as well as by indigenous Kenyan novelists. Against the turbulent background of the Mau Mau Uprising, Dr Maughan-Brown explores the relationship between history, literary creation and the myths that societies cultivate. Spanning the breadth of colonial and post-colonial African literature, his subjects range from the colonialist authors Robert Ruark and Elspeth Huxley to the post-independence novels of Meja Mwangi and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Maughan-Brown's book is invaluable on many levels. He presents a concise account of the uprising and its place in Kenyan identity, and significantly increases our understanding of settler attitudes and the role of literature within colonial ideology. Land, Freedom and Fiction succeeds in showing the subtle insights a materialist approach can bring to the study of literature, ideology and society.

Author : Anna Jacobs
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444711578

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Freedom's Land by Anna Jacobs Pdf

Her husband was killed in the Great War. His wife is dead. Why not journey to the other side of the world and start again from scratch? What does it matter if they don't know each other, they will in time, after all? Norah thinks it is the most stupid idea she has ever heard. But Andrew needs no persuading. His kids are without a mother, he lives in a Lancashire town with no prospects: he can't wait to build a new life for himself in Australia. The government will even give ex-servicemen a farm, as long as they clear the land themselves. The only thing he needs is a wife to join him and time is short. Then Norah's father dies and there is nowhere for her or her daughter to go. For the first time in her life she decides to do something crazy. It may be madness to follow a man she barely knows to an untamed land of heat, spiders and endless bush far from home, but it may also be the answer to all her dreams.

Author : Gloria Ann Wesley
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02T00:00:00Z
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781552666029

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If This Is Freedom by Gloria Ann Wesley Pdf

If This Is Freedom continues the story of struggle for Loyalist settlers in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. In the black settlement of Birchtown, times are especially hard for the former slaves. They face the difficulties of a hardscrabble existence and continued discrimination from their white counterparts. Like many desperate Birchtowners, Sarah Redmond has signed an indenture agreement, a work contract meant to protect her rights and ensure a living wage. Sarah’s employers, the Blyes, do not honour the agreement, and Sarah and her family are all but shattered when Sarah takes a wrong step – one she will come to regret as it sets off a chain of unusual events that put her under further pressure. With her faith in the settlement running dry and the Birchtowners abandoning the settlement, Sarah is perplexed and soon faces the taxing option of whether to hold on to the only real life she has ever known or let go. At once a stand-alone story and a companion to Gloria Ann Wesley’s previous novel, Chasing Freedom, this story about moral courage and the enduring strength of dreams shares history with us in a way that is both honest and emotional.

Author : Peter Cunningham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 191320720X

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Freedom is a Land I Cannot See by Peter Cunningham Pdf

Author : Garry A. Johnson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453571613

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Introductions: Two Tales of Fiction by Garry A. Johnson Pdf

Introductions: two tales of fiction is from Garry A Johnson sr. The book tells two tales of science fiction influenced material. The first story is called "The Journey" ; this is a very engaging and interesting tale. It is a story of a family that reaches into the future to tell the story of mankind. It is about discovery and exploration. It is a tale that all young americans should take. The second story is called "Prince Palis"; this is a story involving a alien that has had to endure years on earth while trying to return home. The story talks about his friendships and enemies. This story also covers his meeting with space vampires. Prince Palis is all about doing what you think is right, Love and dedication , life and death. From the first chapter in "The Journey" called "Trippin´ " to the end of Prince Palis. Garry Johnson weaves tales which are fun and easy to read.

Author : M. Benedict Joseph
Publisher : Neumann Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06
Category : United States
ISBN : 0911845534

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Founders of Freedom by M. Benedict Joseph Pdf

Each book in this Land of Our Lady series contains a concise yet interesting record of a specific period in American history--always explaining the Catholic influence of religion, culture and morality. Every private Catholic school, home-schooling family, and library will benefit from these Catholic textbooks. Book 1: Founders of Freedom, most often used in Grade 4, begins with the Creation, ending with events leading up to the discovery of the New World.

Author : Michael Neocosmos
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781868148677

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Thinking Freedom in Africa by Michael Neocosmos Pdf

Thinking Freedom in Africa conceives an emancipatory politics beginning from the axiom that ‘people think’. Previous ways of conceiving the universal emancipation of humanity have in practice ended in failure. Marxism, anti-colonial nationalism and neo-liberalism all understand the achievement of universal emancipation through a form of state politics. Marxism, which had encapsulated the idea of freedom for most of the twentieth century, was found wanting when it came to thinking emancipation because social interests and identities were understood as simply reflected in political subjectivity which could only lead to statist authoritarianism. Neo-liberalism and anti-colonial nationalism have also both assumed that freedom is realizable through the state, and have been equally authoritarian in their relations to those they have excluded on the African continent and elsewhere.Thinking Freedom in Africa then conceives emancipatory politics beginning from the axiom that ‘people think’. In other words, the idea that anyone is capable of engaging in a collective thought-practice which exceeds social place, interests and identities and which thus begins to think a politics of universal humanity. Using the work of thinkers such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, Sylvain Lazarus, Frantz Fanon and many others, along with the inventive thought of people themselves in their experiences of struggle, the author proceeds to analyse how Africans themselves – with agency of their own – have thought emancipation during various historical political sequences and to show how emancipation may be thought today in a manner appropriate to twenty-first century conditions and concerns.

Author : Walter B. Pridmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Australian fiction
ISBN : 097512398X

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From Felon to Freedom by Walter B. Pridmore Pdf

"From Felon to Freedom traces the lives of the men and women who, with great trepidation, landed on an unknown, alien shore and, through fortitude and courage, forged a new country."--Back cover.

Author : Byron Caminero-Santangelo
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791462625

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African Fiction and Joseph Conrad by Byron Caminero-Santangelo Pdf

Interrogates the "writing back to the center" approach to intertextuality and explores alternatives to it.

Author : Gareth Griffiths
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317895855

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African Literatures in English by Gareth Griffiths Pdf

Here is an introduction to the history of English writing from East and West Africa drawing on a range of texts from the slave diaspora to the post-war upsurge in African English language and literature from these regions.

Author : James Ogude
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0745314317

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Ngugi's Novels And African History by James Ogude Pdf

Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of Africa’s most controversial and renowned literary figures. This comprehensive study explores the relationship between history and narrative in his novels.

Author : Paolo Bernardini
Publisher : Vellum
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0979448891

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Fragments from a Land of Freedom by Paolo Bernardini Pdf

Fragments of the cultural and intellectual scene at the end of the century are captured in order to provide a balanced, critical view, of those happy days before major challenges struck and set in motion an apparently motionless America.

Author : Yara Zgheib
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982187439

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No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib Pdf

"Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, building a life in the country that brought them together. They'd met in Cambridge, Massachusetts: he, a shell-shocked refugee of a bloody civil war; she, a passionate dreamer who'd come to America years earlier in search of new horizons. Now, they giddily await the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging. When Sama is five months pregnant, Hadi's father dies, in Amman, the night before the embassy interview that would finally reunite Hadi with his parents and deliver them from a country in crisis. Hadi flies back to the Middle East for the funeral, promising he'll be gone only a few days. On the day his flight is due to arrive in Boston, Sama decides to surprise him at the airport, eager to scoop him up and bring him back home. She waits, and waits. There are protests at Logan airport, and Hadi never shows up. What Sama doesn't yet know is that Hadi has been stopped at the border. That he's been taken away for questioning, detained in a windowless, timeless, nightmarish limbo. She does not know about the travel ban, that his legal status in the U.S., which yesterday seemed rock solid, is now in jeopardy - and with it, the chance that he'll ever step foot on U.S. soil again. Amid the protests, Sama goes into premature labor; their son, Naseem, is born, too soon, his father nowhere to be found, the future they could almost taste wrenched from their grasp in a matter of hours. Worlds apart, suspended between hope and disillusion as hours become days become weeks, Sama and Hadi yearn for a way back to each other, and to the life they'd dreamed up together. But does that life exist anymore? Was it only ever an illusion? Achingly intimate yet poignantly universal, No Land to Light On is the story of a family caught on either side of a border, fighting for freedom and home, finding both in each other, and in the tenacious faith of creatures who take flight"--

Author : Siga Fatima Jagne,Pushpa Naidu Parekh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136593970

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Postcolonial African Writers by Siga Fatima Jagne,Pushpa Naidu Parekh Pdf

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.