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Author : Luke Molver,Mason O'Connor
Publisher : Story Press Africa
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1946498998
A charismatic young warrior prince emerges from exile to usurp the old order and forge a new, mighty Zulu kingdom.
Author : Mason O'Connor
Publisher : Story Press Africa
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 194649898X
A time of bloody conflict and great turmoil. The slave trade expands from the east African coast. Europeans spread inland from the south. And one young boy is destined to change the future of southern Africa. This retelling of the Shaka legend explores the rise to power of a shrewd young prince who must consolidate a new kingdom through warfare, mediation, and political alliances to defend his people against the expanding slave trade. "A worthy introduction that offers a young Anglophone audience entry into a legend of Africa without the annoyance of overtranslation and with refreshingly three-dimensional characters." --Kirkus "Deftly written and superbly illustrated by Luke Molver, "Shaka Rising: A Legend of the Warrior Prince" is a truly extraordinary and entertaining graphic novel that will decidedly prove to be an enduringly popular addition to community library graphic novel collections for readers ages 16 to 86." Midwest Book Review Luke Molver is a graphic novelist whose world is fueled by the art of storytelling. He lives in Cape Town, where reality continues to interfere with his daily life.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Story Press Africa
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1946498904
Shaka struggles to retain power as challenges at home and from across an ocean threaten his new rule.
Author : Ikumi Kaminishi
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0824826973
Beginning with the claim that the popularization of Buddhism in the medieval period was a phenomenon of visual culture, Explaining Pictures reexamines the history (and historiography) of medieval Japanese Buddhism. With theoretical sophistication and a full appreciation of the power of imagery to convey and control religious meaning, it investigates a range of aspects of etoki, including the particularly active role of itinerant nuns, whose performances were especially edifying to female audiences, as well as the visual hagiography of the reputed founder of Japanese Buddhism, the pictorial projections of Buddhist paradise and hell, and the explanation, through visual imagery, of sacred mountains. Explaining Pictures is the first book-length study in English devoted to the phenomenon of Buddhist art as religious propaganda and pictorial storytelling as a form of popular culture in medieval Japan. A truly interdisciplinary study, it suggests fruitful avenues of discussion between art historians and historians of Japanese Buddhism. Scholars and students with an interest in Japanese Buddhism, art, and social and cultural history will find its examination of significant issues fresh and stimulating. It will also find an appreciative audience among those concerned with the relationship between art and religion, the mechanics of proselytization, and Asian visual culture.
Author : Pamela Lothspeich
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000912166
Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, The Epic World makes a timely and bold intervention toward understanding the human propensity to aestheticize and normalize mass deployments of power and violence. The collection broadly considers three kinds of epic literature: conventional celebratory tales of conquest that glorify heroism, especially male heroism; anti-epics or stories of conquest from the perspectives of the dispossessed, the oppressed, the despised, and the murdered; and heroic stories utilized for imperialist or nationalist purposes. The Epic World illustrates global patterns of epic storytelling, such as the durability of stories tied to religious traditions and/or to peoples who have largely "stayed put"; the tendency to reimagine and retell stories in new ways over centuries; and the imbrication of epic storytelling and forms of colonialism and imperialism, especially those perpetuated and glorified by Euro-Americans over the past 500 years, resulting in unspeakable and immeasurable harms to humans, other living beings, and the planet Earth. The Epic World is a go-to volume for anyone interested in epic literature in a global framework. Engaging with powerful stories and ways of knowing beyond those of the predominantly white Global North, this field-shifting volume exposes the false premises of "Western civilization" and "Classics," and brings new questions and perspectives to epic studies.
Author : David Chidester
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226117577
How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in Empire of Religion, documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparative religion in Great Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century and its complex relations to the colonial situation in southern Africa. In the process, Chidester provides a counterhistory of the academic study of religion, an alternative to standard accounts that have failed to link the field of comparative religion with either the power relations or the historical contingencies of the imperial project. In developing a material history of the study of religion, Chidester documents the importance of African religion, the persistence of the divide between savagery and civilization, and the salience of mediations—imperial, colonial, and indigenous—in which knowledge about religions was produced. He then identifies the recurrence of these mediations in a number of case studies, including Friedrich Max Müller’s dependence on colonial experts, H. Rider Haggard and John Buchan’s fictional accounts of African religion, and W. E. B. Du Bois’s studies of African religion. By reclaiming these theorists for this history, Chidester shows that race, rather than theology, was formative in the emerging study of religion in Europe and North America. Sure to be controversial, Empire of Religion is a major contribution to the field of comparative religious studies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Astrology
ISBN : MINN:31951T002556422
Author : Thamsanqa Kingsley Sibisi
Publisher : Partridge Africa
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781482876963
This book is about deciphered palm of the Beast (the historical accounts and the astrological analysis of the Ngoma (Ark) King called Ntaba Kayikhonjwa), who happens to be the only Pharaoh of the city of the Sun in Egypt. Pharaoh is the elephant behind Shaka Zulu (the boulders hiding elephants, the other elephant being the Egyptian Messiah: CHENT IRTI). The book is also about the underwater battles of colonial scholars and the Red Buffalo in Zululand and also the old and the endless animosity between Rome and five African tribes.
Author : Alistair Seton
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781462905881
Collecting Japanese Antiques is an excellent overview of the uniquely Japanese aesthetic and how it relates to Japanese culture. From the time Japan started trading with the West in the sixteenth century, Japanese arts and crafts have intrigued and delighted Westerners, especially lacquer, screens, swords and porcelain. Antique hunters will benefit from the practical and cautionary advice in this book; newcomers will appreciate information on the basics of collecting Japanese antiques; while other sections might reawaken interest in experienced collectors. Striking photographs throughout make this art and antiques book a must for collectors and lovers of Japanese art. Chapters include: Japan's Art Heritage Collecting for Fun and with Wisdom Screens and Scrolls Ukiyo-e and Other Prints Sagemono Ceramics Furniture Textiles Lacquerware Cloisonne Sculpture and Metalwork Swords and Armor Tea Ceremony Utensils Dolls Flower Baskets
Author : Kim Miller,Brenda Schmahmann
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253030108
How does South Africa deal with public art from its years of colonialism and apartheid? How do new monuments address fraught histories and commemorate heroes of the struggle? Across South Africa, statues commemorating figures such as Cecil Rhodes have provoked heated protests, while new works commemorating icons of the liberation struggle have also sometimes proved contentious. In this lively volume, Kim Miller, Brenda Schmahmann and an international group of contributors explore how works in the public domain in South Africa serve as a forum in which important debates about race, gender, identity and nationhood play out. Examining statues and memorials as well as performance, billboards, and other temporal modes of communication, the authors of these essays consider the implications of not only the exposure, but also erasure of events and icons from the public domain. Revealing how public visual expressions articulate histories and memories, they explore how such works may serve as a forum in which tensions surrounding race, gender, identity, or nationhood play out.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Seker Nefer Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Mythology, African
ISBN : 9780966237429
The adventure continues in the second installment of the Shades of Memnon series, where it is 1200 B.C. and a young Kushite must fight for his family's survival.
Author : Lawrence Wang-chi Wong,T. H. Barrett
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789882371774
This edited volume investigates translations from the languages of China into the languages of Western societies, from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Rather than focusing solely on the activity of translation, the authors extend their explorations to cover the contexts within which the translators worked from different perspectives, touching on various aspects of the institutional and intellectual backgrounds that informed their writings. Studies of translation from literary Chinese into English constitute the majority of the contributions, but the volume is also illuminated by excursions into Latin, French and Italian, while the problems of translating the Naxi script are confronted as well. In addition, the wider context of the rendering of Chinese into other languages is explored through a survey of recent Japanese translation series. Throughout the volume, translation is presented not simply as a linguistic exercise but rather as a key element in world history, well worthy of further interdisciplinary investigation.
Author : Jeffrey SJ Kirchoff,Mike P. Cook
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476671888
This collection of new essays explores various ways of reading, interpreting and using digital comics. Contributors discuss comics made specifically for web consumption, and also digital reproductions of print-comics. Written for those who may not be familiar with digital comics or digital comic scholarship, the essays cover perspectives on reading, criticism and analysis of specific titles, the global reach of digital comics, and how they can be used in educational settings.
Author : Titus Burckhardt
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781933316727
This fascinating edited collection of art historian Titus Burckhardt's most important writings on Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist art is lavishly illustrated with 140 superb examples of Oriental art, architecture, statuary, and painting.
Author : Donald R Morris
Publisher : Random House
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446426081
In 1879, armed only with their spears, their rawhide shields, and their incredible courage, the Zulus challenged the might of Victorian England and, initially, inflicted on the British the worst defeat a modern army has ever suffered at the hands of men without guns. This is the definitive account of the rise of the Zulu nation under the great ruler Shaka and its fall under Cetshwayo. The story is studded with tales of drama and heroism: the Battle of Isandhlwana, where the Zulu army wiped out the major British column; and Rorke's Drift, where a handful of British troops beat off thousands of Zulu warriors and won eleven Victoria Crosses. Acclaimed for its scholarship, its monumental range, and its spellbinding readability, The Washing of the Spears is a gripping portrait of not just the Zulu War of 1879, but also of Britain’s colonial policy at this moment.
