Philida

Author : Andre Brink
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345805041

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Philida by Andre Brink Pdf

This is what it is to be a slave: that everything is decided for you from out there. You just got to listen and do as they tell you. You don’t say no. You don’t ask questions. You just do what they tell you. But far at the back of your head you think: Soon there must come a day when I can say for myself: This and that I shall do, this and that I shall not. In Philida, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, André Brink—“one of South Africa's greatest novelists” (The Telegraph)—gives us his most powerful novel yet; the truly unforgettable story of a female slave, and her fierce determination to survive and to be free. It is 1832 in South Africa, the year before slavery is abolished and the slaves are emancipated. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. When Francois’s father orders him to marry a woman from a prominent Cape Town family, Francois reneges on his promise to give Philida her freedom, threatening instead to sell her to new owners in the harsh country up north. Here is the remarkable story—based on individuals connected to the author’s family—of a fiercely independent woman who will settle for nothing and for no one. Unwilling to accept the future that lies ahead of her, Philida continues to test the limits and lodges a complaint against the Brink family. Then she sets off on a journey—from the southernmost reaches of the Cape, across a great wilderness, to the far north of the country—in order to reclaim her soul.

Author : André Brink
Publisher : Random House
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448139705

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Philida by André Brink Pdf

The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of slaves. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. Francois has reneged on his promise to set her free and his father has ordered him to marry a white woman from a prominent family, selling Philida on to owners in the harsh country in the north. Unwilling to accept this fate, Philida tests the limits of her freedom by setting off on a journey. She travels across the great wilderness to the far north of Cape Town - determined to survive and be free. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012.

Author : Leon de Kock
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781868427932

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The Love Song of André P. Brink by Leon de Kock Pdf

The Love Song of André P Brink is the first biography of this major South African novelist who, during his lifetime, was published in over 30 languages and ranked with the likes of Gabriel García Márquez, Peter Carey and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Leon de Kock's eagerly awaited account of Brink's life is richly informed by a previously unavailable literary treasure: the dissident Afrikaner's hoard of journal-writing, a veritable chronicle that was 54 years in the making. In this massive new biographical source – running to a million words – Brink does not spare himself, or anyone else for that matter, as he narrates the ups and downs of his five marriages and his compulsive affairs with a great number of women. These are precisely the topics that the rebel in both politics and sex skated over in his memoir, A Fork in the Road. De Kock's biographical study of the author who came close to winning the Nobel Prize for Literature not only synthesises the journals but also subjects them to searching critical analysis. In addition, the biographer measures the journals against additional sources, both scholarly and otherwise, among them the testimony of Brink's friends, family, wives and lovers. The Love Song of André P Brink subjects Brink's literary legacy to a bracing scholarly re-evaluation, making this major new biography a crucial addition to scholarship on Brink.

Author : Shirley Anne Tate
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789733495

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Decolonising Sambo by Shirley Anne Tate Pdf

This book decolonises 'sambo' as racialised knowledge, power, being and affect to unsettle its place in the history of 'mixed race' and racialised naming forged through settler colonialism which in its afterlife continues to haunt our contemporary period through national commemoration, cultural production and markets in contemptible collectibles.

Author : Irmtraud Huber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137562135

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Present Tense Narration in Contemporary Fiction by Irmtraud Huber Pdf

In this book, Irmtraud Huber considers a wide range of contemporary novels to explore the variety of possibilities and effects of the use of the present tense, as well as investigating the reasons for its popularity. By illustrating the complexity and sophistication of four different types of contemporary usage, Huber’s discussion goes some way towards refuting those critical voices which consider present-tense narration a passing fad and stylistic affectation. As a tense of narration, the present can serve to tell different stories than the past tense, or can tell them differently. By no means a passing fad, it is an important characteristic of contemporary literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1784
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017814354

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The Kentish Songster ... Containing Above Fourteen Hundred ... Songs ... The Third Edition by Anonim Pdf

Author : Humming bird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1785
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590513595

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The humming bird. A collection of the most celebrated English and Scots songs by Humming bird Pdf

Author : Tracy Hickman
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101548387

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Citadels of the Lost by Tracy Hickman Pdf

The second novel in the "enthralling" (Midwest Book Review) Annals of Drakis fantasy epic The Rhonas Empire of the elves is built upon an unquenchable thirst for conquest. The elves control the Aether—the mystical substance that fuels their magic. And one use of this Aether is to compel total obedience on the part of the slaves drawn from the races they have defeated. But there are legends that tell of an age when humans and the other slave races were free, ruling powerful empires of their own. Tales carried down from generation to generation speak of a hero who will lead an uprising against the empire. That hero, so the stories say, will be a human named Drakis. When a captive dwarf called Jugar works Aer magic to destroy the Aether wells of the Western Provinces, it signals the start of a rebellion straight out of legend. In the ensuing chaos, the warrior-slave named Drakis, along with a small group of fellow slaves, flees—lured on by a melody that coils itself around his mind and conjures disturbing visions of dark wings, claws, iridescent scales, and fire. Pursued by the Rhonas Iblisi Inquisitors, this desperate band of fugitives makes its way across the ocean only to find a desolated, seemingly lifeless land. Following the melody he alone can hear, Drakis stumbles on the incredible truth: dragons are real. Attacked by these fierce, fire-breathing beings, the group escapes through a fold that opens into the remains of a once-great empire. Cut off from the world they know, can they survive the dangers of this treacherous realm, and find a way back to those they left behind—bringing the truth of the legends to the army of the rebellion even now being raised in the name of Drakis?

Author : John de Gruchy
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334049869

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Led into Mystery by John de Gruchy Pdf

Led into Mystery is an unanticipated sequel to John de Gruchy's book Being Human: Confessions of a Christian Humanist. It was prompted by the untimely and tragic death of his eldest son, Steve, in February 2010, and the questions this posed about the meaning of life and death from the perspective of Christian faith.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Arts
ISBN : UCLA:L0106157209

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The Literary Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006952746

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The Saturday Evening Post by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Hankins Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3254417

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Wallace's American Trotting Register ... by John Hankins Wallace Pdf

Author : Eliza Day
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1798
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UCD:31175035212573

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Poems, on Various Subjects by Eliza Day Pdf

Author : Ansu Datta
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479773275

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From Bengal to the Cape by Ansu Datta Pdf

In From Bengal to the Cape, Professor Ansu Datta opens up a hitherto little researched topic of transoceanic slave trade between mainly southern Bengal and the Cape in the Republic of South Africa. This migration took place between roughly the 1650s and about the middle of the nineteenth century when the slave trade was finally abolished. The book offers a short account of the condition in which the Bengali slaves found themselves and in the Cape peninsular society following their dispersal during these early times. It highlights new social formations in the Cape society, especially among the Coloured in South Africa. Few are aware of this export trade principally from Bengal, the Coromandel Coast, and Malabar. Dattas researches took him to the National Archives of Cape Town, and to some universities in South Africa. He obtained records from Municipalities and interviewed people who today claim descent from Bengali slaves. The book underscores the need for further research on this unexplored issue in India and South Africa.

Author : David Barry Gaspar,Darlene Clark Hine
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253013651

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More Than Chattel by David Barry Gaspar,Darlene Clark Hine Pdf

Essays exploring Black women’s experiences with slavery in the Americas. Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men’s experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to survive dehumanization and abuse. The contributors are Hilary Beckles, Barbara Bush, Cheryl Ann Cody, David Barry Gaspar, David P. Geggus, Virginia Meacham Gould, Mary Karasch, Wilma King, Bernard Moitt, Celia E. Naylor-Ojurongbe, Robert A. Olwell, Claire Robertson, Robert W. Slenes, Susan M. Socolow, Richard H. Steckel, and Brenda E. Stevenson. “A much-needed volume on a neglected topic of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history. Its broad comparative framework makes it all the more important, for it offers the basis for evaluating similarities and contrasts in the role of gender in different slave societies. . . . [This] will be required reading for students all of the American South, women’s history, and African American studies.” —Drew Gilpin Faust, Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania