War And Peace In Contemporary Eritrean Poetry

Author : Charles Cantalupo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789987081424

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War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry focuses on Eritrean written poetry from roughly the last three decades of the twentieth century. The poems appear in the anthology Who Needs a Story? Contemporary Eritrean Poetry in Tigrinya, Tigre and Arabic from which a selection is offered here in their original scripts of Ge'ez or Arabic, and in English translation. Who Needs a Story? is the first anthology of contemporary poetry from Eritrea ever published, and War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry is the first book on the subject. Therefore, the groundbreaking effort of the former warrants a discussion of its means of cultural production. All of the poets in Who Needs a Story? participated in the Eritrean struggle for independence (1961-91) as freedom fighters and/or as supporters in the Eritrean diaspora. Thus, contemporary Eritrean poetry divides itself between experiences of war and peace, although one can contain the other as well. War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry also includes an extended analysis of one of Eritrea's most famous contemporary poets Reesom Haile, as an example of the kind of extended analysis that many of the poets of Who Needs a Story? should stimulate and, last but not least, a meditation on how the author, a non-native speaker, personally becomes involved in Eritrean poetry translation.

Author : Charles Cantalupo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Eritrean poetry
ISBN : 9789987080533

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War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry by Charles Cantalupo Pdf

War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry focuses on Eritrean written poetry from roughly the last three decades of the twentieth century. The poems appear in the anthology Who Needs a Story? Contemporary Eritrean Poetry in Tigrinya, Tigre and Arabic from which a selection is offered here in their original scripts of Ge'ez or Arabic, and in English translation. Who Needs a Story? is the first anthology of contemporary poetry from Eritrea ever published, and War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry is the first book on the subject. Therefore, the groundbreaking effort of the former warrants a discussion of its means of cultural production. All of the poets in Who Needs a Story? participated in the Eritrean struggle for independence (1961-91) as freedom fighters and/or as supporters in the Eritrean diaspora. Thus, contemporary Eritrean poetry divides itself between experiences of war and peace, although one can contain the other as well. War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry also includes an extended analysis of one of Eritrea's most famous contemporary poets Reesom Haile, as an example of the kind of extended analysis that many of the poets of Who Needs a Story? should stimulate and, last but not least, a meditation on how the author, a non-native speaker, personally becomes involved in Eritrean poetry translation.

Author : Charles Cantalupo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Eritrea
ISBN : 9789987753611

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Where War was by Charles Cantalupo Pdf

"Charles Cantalupo has written a book that crosses all the genres: Where War Was: Poems and Translations from Eritrea is part translation, part reflection, part epic, illustrated with starkly beautiful photographic images by Lawrence Sykes. Cantalupo's poetry recounts his own journey in Eritrea, and his translations of poems by Eritrean writers are authentic and memorable." - Alexandra Dugdale, Editor, Modern Poetry in Translation Charles Cantalupo has two previous collections of poetry - Light the Lights and Animal Woman and Other Spirits. His translations of Eritrean poetry include We Have Our Voice, We Invented the Wheel, and Who Needs a Story, and he has written War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry. Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and African Studies at Penn State University, he is also the author of books on Thomas Hobbes and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and a memoir, Joining Africa - From Anthills to Asmara.

Author : Ghirmai Negash,Charles Cantalupo
Publisher : Hdri Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015070708311

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Who Needs a Story? by Ghirmai Negash,Charles Cantalupo Pdf

Poetry. African American Studies. The first anthology ever published of poetry from Eritrea written in Tigrinya, Tigre and Arabic, WHO NEEDS A STORY? contains English translations and the originals of thirty-six poems by twenty-two poets over roughly the last three decades. The way that contemporary Eastern European poets were first read widely in the 1970s and South American poets in the 1960s--without whose influence contemporary poetry in English and most languages is unimaginable--now is the time for African language poets to be similarly heard, with Eritrean poets as part of the vanguard. "For at least four thousand years--from the ancient stele in Belew Kelew to the 20th century battlefields of Eritrea's heroic struggle for independence--and into the 21st century, Eritrean poets have never given up writing in their own languages, which is why their poetry thrives. WHO NEEDS A STORY? translates this remarkable legacy"--Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

Author : Ararat Iyob
Publisher : Red Sea Press(NJ)
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015047582849

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Blankets of Sand by Ararat Iyob Pdf

Author : Gebreyesus Hailu
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780821444450

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The Conscript by Gebreyesus Hailu Pdf

Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception and critical appraisal of African literature. The Conscript depicts, with irony and controlled anger, the staggering experiences of the Eritrean ascari, soldiers conscripted to fight in Libya by the Italian colonial army against the nationalist Libyan forces fighting for their freedom from Italy’s colonial rule. Anticipating midcentury thinkers Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire, Hailu paints a devastating portrait of Italian colonialism. Some of the most poignant passages of the novel include the awakening of the novel’s hero, Tuquabo, to his ironic predicament of being both under colonial rule and the instrument of suppressing the colonized Libyans. The novel’s remarkable descriptions of the battlefield awe the reader with mesmerizing images, both disturbing and tender, of the Libyan landscape—with its vast desert sands, oases, horsemen, foot soldiers, and the brutalities of war—uncannily recalled in the satellite images that were brought to the homes of millions of viewers around the globe in 2011, during the country’s uprising against its former leader, Colonel Gaddafi.

Author : Charles Cantalupo
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609173135

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Joining Africa by Charles Cantalupo Pdf

This eye-opening personal history tells the story of an American college professor’s twenty-year engagement with a thriving Africa rarely encountered by Western visitors, including an extraordinary connection to poets across the continent. At once adventurous, spiritual, political, dreamlike, and humorous, Joining Africa is a unique documentary of a journey through the continent, including an intense five-year encounter with economically struggling but culturally fertile Eritrea. The Africa presented here is neither a postcolonial study nor an exotic tourist destination. It is rich with the voices of its people, whose languages, Cantalupo argues, have greater potential to effect change than any NGO or high-profile celebrity. In vibrant prose, Cantalupo’s book extends a stirring invitation to reevaluate how we engage—both individually and collectively—with this remarkable part of the world.

Author : Alemseged Tesfai
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111863283

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Two Weeks in the Trenches by Alemseged Tesfai Pdf

A quarter of a century ago, Alemseged abandoned a promising academic career to join the fledgling Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front to fight for Eritrea's freedom. This book, a translation of an earlier account in Tigrinya of the Battle of Afabet, the most important battle in the Eritrean fight against its Ethiopian occupation, shares with readers a searing eyewitness account of bravery and valour in the face of death.

Author : Paul Kenyon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784972158

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Dictatorland by Paul Kenyon Pdf

A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express 'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times 'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. In Equatorial Guinea, the paranoid despot who thought Hitler was the saviour of Africa and waged a relentless campaign of terror against his own people. The Libyan army officer who authored a new work of political philosophy, The Green Book, and lived in a tent with a harem of female soldiers, running his country like a mafia family business. And behind these almost incredible stories of fantastic violence and excess lie the dark secrets of Western greed and complicity, the insatiable taste for chocolate, oil, diamonds and gold that has encouraged dictators to rule with an iron hand, siphoning off their share of the action into mansions in Paris and banks in Zurich and keeping their people in dire poverty.

Author : Reesom Haile
Publisher : Red Sea Press(NJ)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X004438822

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We Have Our Voice by Reesom Haile Pdf

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Author : Charles Cantalupo
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 086543445X

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Ngũgĩ Wa Thiongʼo by Charles Cantalupo Pdf

Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Texts and Contexts contains a generous sampling of this unprecedented historic event. Containing many of the conference's most distinguished critical discussions of Ngugi's this self-described 'unrepentant universalist' still rooted in his home of Kenya regardless of his exile. In Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Texts and Contexts, the book and the conference, as in The World of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the text upon which the conference was built, Ngugi's work becomes a site of accumulation, like many forms of African sculpture.

Author : Aracelis Girmay
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780810132962

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Teeth by Aracelis Girmay Pdf

Winner, 2015 Whiting Award for Poetry Stunning, highly original poems that celebrate the richness of the author's multicultural tradition, Teeth explores loves, wars, wild hope, defiance, and the spirit of creativity in a daring use of language and syntax. Behind this language one senses a powerful, inventive woman who is not afraid to tackle any subject, including rape, genocide, and love, always sustained by an optimistic voice, assuring us that in the end justice will triumph and love will persevere. LOVE, you be the reason why we swagger & jive, lift the guitar, & pick up the axe. when it is i tilt my hat to the side, wearing colors & perfumes, it's cause, love, you did it to me. oh, you do sure turn my tongue to fiddle, & make the salt taste sweet. man, i don't need a rooster, or peacock even, to help me spend my time, nope, just you, love, right & solid as a line.

Author : Serenity Speaks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1513617931

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War and Peace a Book of Poetry by Serenity Speaks Pdf

Author : Ribka Sibhatu,André Naffis-Sahely
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 191611413X

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Aulò! Aulò! Aulò! by Ribka Sibhatu,André Naffis-Sahely Pdf

English PEN Award Winner. Ribka Sibhatu is one of the foremost poets of the Eritrean diaspora and a prominent activist for refugee rights. The present selection captures the scale and range of her achievements to date, from recent poems of direct political intervention, through her decade-long effort to record the oral folklore and myths of Tigrinya tradition, back to her earliest taboo-breaking lyric poems. Sibhatu has devoted a considerable amount of her creative energies to the assemblage and recording of Eritrea's folkloric canon, a body of oral literature which has been handed down through the ages in the form of 'aulòs', which literally means 'Please give me permission! I have something to say publicly in rhyme!'. Naffis-Sahely has worked closely with Sibhatu for over 10 years, making translations of her poems and fables to bringing them to the attention of English speaking audiences. His dedication to making her voice heard has resulted in this new publication, which includes an afterword by Sasha Dugdale. This publication was supported by funding from the EU's Creative Europe Culture Programme. "Naffis-Sahely's translation captures the poet's intricate weaving of multiple worlds - fable and grounded reality, elegiac and absurd, spiritualised emotion and reportage. Through [Sibhatu's] poetry she allows us to step into her unique gaze as an artist and activist in self-exile..." - Devina Shah, Modern Poetry in Translation

Author : Mbizo Chirasha,David Cn Swanson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734783737

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Second Name of Earth Is Peace by Mbizo Chirasha,David Cn Swanson Pdf

The poets in this book are from many corners of the globe, a lot of them from places with wars. The poems deal with war and peace. They have much to teach us.