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Author: Ousmane Sembène
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 132
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Author: Ousmane Sembène
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 132
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Publisher: Inscape
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 144
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 448
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Publisher: New Africa Books
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780864861221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Juris Dilevko
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-03-17
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 1598849093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.
Author: Caroline H. Bledsoe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-11-15
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0226058506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason—to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rural Gambia, Contingent Lives explains this seemingly counterintuitive fact by juxtaposing two very different understandings of the life course: one is a linear, Western model that equates aging and the ability to reproduce with the passage of time, the other a Gambian model that views aging as contingent on the cumulative physical, social, and spiritual hardships of personal history, especially obstetric trauma. Viewing each of these two models from the perspective of the other, Caroline Bledsoe produces fresh understandings of the classical anthropological subjects of reproduction, time, and aging as culturally shaped within women's conjugal lives. Her insights will be welcomed by scholars of anthropology and demography as well as by those working in public health, development studies, gerontology, and the history of medicine.
Author: E. Anthony Hurley
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780865437012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays presented here, demonstrating concepts of Pan-Africanism, which, historically, were concerned with colonialism, racial identity, and African unity, extend the discussion of an Africa' that exists beyond the continent and includes the Caribbean, the Americas and Europe.'
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 1608
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Florence Stratton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-03
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1134860625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Abiola Irele
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780195086195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays from eminent scholar F. Abiola Irele provides a comprehensive formulation of what he calls an "African imagination" manifested in the oral traditions and modern literature of Africa and the Black Diaspora. The African Imagination includes Irele's probing critical readings of the works of Chinua Achebe, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Amadou Hampat B , and Ahmadou Kourouma, among others, as well as examinations of the growing presence of African writing in the global literary marketplace and the relationship between African intellectuals and the West. Taken as a whole, this volume makes a superb introduction to African literature and to the work of one of its leading interpreters.