The Prophet S Camel Bell

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780226923888

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The Prophet's Camel Bell by Margaret Laurence Pdf

In 1950, as a young bride, Margaret Laurence set out with her engineer husband to what was then Somaliland: a British protectorate in North Africa few Canadians had ever heard of. Her account of this voyage into the desert is full of wit and astonishment. Laurence honestly portrays the difficulty of colonial relationships and the frustration of trying to get along with Somalis who had no reason to trust outsiders. There are moments of surprise and discovery when Laurence exclaims at the beauty of a flock of birds only to discover that they are locusts, or offers medical help to impoverished neighbors only to be confronted with how little she can help them. During her stay, Laurence moves past misunderstanding the Somalis and comes to admire memorable individuals: a storyteller, a poet, a camel-herder. The Prophet’s Camel Bell is both a fascinating account of Somali culture and British colonial characters, and a lyrical description of life in the desert.

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771046285

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The Prophet's Camel Bell by Margaret Laurence Pdf

When Margaret Laurence set out for Somaliland with her engineer husband in 1950, she confronted the difficulty of communication between peoples of vastly different cultures. Yet she came to know the skilled orators, poets and craftsmen of the country, and to share the vision of a people’s struggle for survival in a barren land. The Prophet’s Camel Bell is part travelogue, part autobiography, part celebration of human nature, and essential reading for anyone who has ever been a stranger in a strange land.

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Horn of Africa
ISBN : OCLC:416450280

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The Prophet's Camel Bell by Margaret Laurence Pdf

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771007408

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The Prophet's Camel Bell by Margaret Laurence Pdf

When Margaret Laurence set out for Somaliland with her engineer husband in 1950, she confronted the difficulty of communication between peoples of vastly different cultures. Yet she came to know the skilled orators, poets and craftsmen of the country, and to share the vision of a people’s struggle for survival in a barren land. The Prophet’s Camel Bell is part travelogue, part autobiography, part celebration of human nature, and essential reading for anyone who has ever been a stranger in a strange land.

Author : Christian Riegel
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 088864289X

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Challenging Territory by Christian Riegel Pdf

In a postmodern and postcolonial age, how do we approach the writing of Margaret Laurence? Challenging Territory demands of the reader a re-evaluation of the basic assumptions that underlie their understanding of Laurence's life and writing by addressing the full range of her writing. Laurence is presented as Canadian, colonial and postcolonial subject; as feminist, humanist and political active individual; and as essayist, translator, journalist, memoir writer and fiction writer. The essays stake out a critical territory as well as offer a challenge to territory previously mapped by the criticism - in addition to charting critical space never before traced.

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0888644078

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Heart of a Stranger by Margaret Laurence Pdf

Travel was closely connected to Margaret Laurence’s creativity. Laurence realized that her travels, especially to Africa, provided her with new perspectives on Canada. Heart of a Stranger, originally published in 1976, is a fascinating travelogue chronicling Laurence's geographical journeys to many lands and historic places. She notes "I saw, somewhat to my surprise, that they are all, in one way or another, travel articles. And by travel, I mean both those voyages which are outer and those voyages which are inner." Laurence writes about her travels to Egypt in "Good Morning to the Grandson of Ramesses the Second," to Scotland in "Road from the Isles," and to Greece in "Sayonara, Agamemnon." In "The Very Best Intentions" Laurence sees herself as a "stranger in a strange land" in Ghana. She reflects on the many places she lived in "Put Out One or Two More Flags," "Down East," "The Shack" and "Where the World Began." Professor Nora Foster Stovel’s new introduction "Heart of a Traveller" explores how Laurence’s experiences in other lands influenced and shaped her writing. She contends that "Heart of a Stranger constitutes a concealed autobiography, for, in chronicling her literal life journey, Laurence also reveals her spiritual odyssey."

Author : Nora Foster Stovel
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780773575035

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Divining Margaret Laurence by Nora Foster Stovel Pdf

The most complete consideration of all the major writings of Margaret Laurence.

Author : C.E. Nicholson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349100927

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Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence by C.E. Nicholson Pdf

The essays collected in this volume offer a range of different approaches to the significance of the work of Margaret Laurence, historical, feminist, descriptive and thematic, in which critics from Europe, America and Canada offer assessments of this 20th century novelist.

Author : Wendy Roy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780773572676

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Maps of Difference by Wendy Roy Pdf

Roy considers the connections Jameson makes between feminism and anti-racism in Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838), Hubbard's insights in A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador (1908) into her relationship with First Nations men who had both more and less power than she, and Laurence's awareness of colonial and patriarchical oppression in her African memoir The Prophet's Camel Bell (1963). Roy also examines archival and First Nations accounts of these women's travels, and the sketches, photos, and maps that accompany their writing, to examine contradictions in and question the implied objectivity of travel narratives. She concludes by looking at the myth of getting there first and the ways in which new technologies of representation, including cameras, allow travellers and writers to claim new travel firsts.

Author : Annemarie Schimmel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Persian poetry
ISBN : 0807856207

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A Two-Colored Brocade by Annemarie Schimmel Pdf

Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry

Author : Laura K. Davis
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781771121491

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Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada by Laura K. Davis Pdf

Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada is the first book to examine how Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English Canada. Focusing on Laurence’s published works as well as her unpublished letters not yet discussed by critics, the book articulates how Laurence and her characters are poised between African colonies of occupation during decolonization and the settler-colony of English Canada during the implementation of Canadian multiculturalism. Laurence’s Canadian characters are often divided subjects who are not quite members of their ancestral “imperial” cultures, yet also not truly “native” to their nation. Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada shows how Laurence and her characters negotiate complex tensions between “self” and “nation,” and argues that Laurence’s African and Canadian writing demonstrates a divided Canadian subject who holds significant implications for both the individual and the country of Canada. Bringing together Laurence’s writing about Africa and Canada, Davis offers a unique contribution to the study of Canadian literature. The book is an original interpretation of Laurence’s work and reveals how she displaces the simple notion that Canada is a sum total of different cultures and conceives Canada as a mosaic that is in flux and constituted through continually changing social relations.

Author : Donez Xiques
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781550025798

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Margaret Laurence by Donez Xiques Pdf

Traces Laurences literary growth, focusing on the years she spent in Africa. Includes a previously unpublished short story.

Author : James King
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307367211

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The Life Of Margaret Laurence by James King Pdf

The magnificent and long-awaited biography of the beloved writer who gave us the Manawaka novels, including The Diviners and The Stone Angel.

Author : John Lennox,Ruth Panofsky
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997-12-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781442655737

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Selected Letters of Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman by John Lennox,Ruth Panofsky Pdf

Over a period of forty years, from 1947 to 1986, Margaret Laurence and Adele Wiseman wrote to each other constantly. The topics they wrote about were as wide-ranging as their interests and experiences, and their correspondence encompassed many of the varied events of their lives. Laurence's letters - of which far more are extant than Wisman's - reveal much about the impact of her years in Africa, motherhood, her anxieties and insecurities, and her developement as a writer. Wiseman, whose literary success came early in her career, provided a sympathetic ear and constant encouragement to Laurence. The editors' selection has been directed by an interest in these women as friends and writers. Their experiences in the publishing world offer an engaging perspective on literary apprenticeship, rejection, and success. The letters reveal the important roles both women played in the buoyant cultural nationalism of the 1960s and 1970s. This valuable collection of previously unpublished primary material will be essential to scholars working on Canadian literature and of great interest to the general reading. The introduction contextualizes the correspondence and the annotations to the letters help to clarify the text. The Laurence-Wiseman letters offer a fascinating glimpse into the lives and friendship of two remarkable women whose personal correspondence was written with verve, compassion, and wit.

Author : Clara Thomas
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:49015000714460

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The Manawaka World of Margaret Laurence by Clara Thomas Pdf