CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French – serie
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Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays
Häftad, 1991
364 kr
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Selected essays from the rich and complex collection of Edouard Glissant, one of the most prominent writers and intellectuals of the Caribbean, examine the psychological, sociological, and philosophical implications of cultural dependency.Edouard Glissant's Caribbean Discourse is an unflaggingly …
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
Av Assia Djebar
Häftad, 1999
332 kr
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The cloth edition of Assia Djebar's Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, her first work to be published in English, was named by the American Literary Translators Association as an ALTA Outstanding Translation of the Year. Now available in paperback, this collection of three long stories, three …
Leopold Sedar Senghor
The Collected Poetry
Häftad, 1998
559 kr
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Leopold Sedar Senghor was not only president of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, he is also one of Africa's most famous poets. A co-founder of the Negritude cultural movement, he is recognized by many as one of the most significant figures in African literature. This is a bilingual …
Leopold Sedar Senghor
The Collected Poetry
Inbunden, 1991
980 kr
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The complete poems of Leopold Sedar Senghor, possibly Africa's most famous poet, are offered in translation for the first time in this bilingual edition. The book, representing the culmination of a lifetime of work, includes ""Lost Poems"", a collection of Senghor's earliest work. Senghor's poetry …
Nedjma
Häftad, 1991
461 kr
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Nedjma is a masterpiece of North African writing. Its intricate plot involves four men in love with the beautiful woman whose name serves as the title of the novel. Nedjma is the central figure of this disorienting novel, but more than the unfortunate wife of a man she does not love, more than the …
General Sun, My Brother
Inbunden, 1999
1126 kr
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An English translation of ""Compere General Soleil"", published in France in 1955. This novel depicts the nightmarish journey of a labourer and his wife from the slums of Port-au-Prince to the cane fields of the Dominican Republic, and personifies the sun as friend and leader of the workers.
It Shall Be of Jasper and Coral
Häftad, 2000
348 kr
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These two novels, written by West African painter, writer, playwright and director Werewere Liking, spare nothing in their satirical portraits of the patriarchal view of African society as they experiment radically with the novel form.
Waiting for the Vote of the Wild Animals
Inbunden, 2001
524 kr
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Characterized as ""the African Voltaire,"" Ahmadou Kourouma garnered enormous critical and popular praise upon the 1998 release of his third novel, En attendant le vote des betes sauvages. Kourouma received the Prix des Tropiques, among other prestigious prizes, for that book, and the French …
Story of the Madman
A Novel
Av Mongo Beti
Inbunden, 2001
899 kr
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Widely acclaimed when first published in French in 1994, Mongo Beti's tenth novel, L'histoire du fou, continues the author's humorous yet fierce criticism of the colonial system in Africa and its legacy of governmental corruption. Translated here as The Story of the Madman, the novel gives the …
In the Flicker of an Eyelid
A Novel
Inbunden, 2002
980 kr
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In his third novel, Jacques Stephen Alexis brings his characteristically vivid scenes, political consciousness, and powerful characters to the dramatic age-old question of whether a prostitute can leave ""the life"" to find her own identity and true love. La Nina Estrellita is pursuing her trade …
Land Without Shadows
Inbunden, 2005
753 kr
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One of the first literary works to portray Djiboutians from their own point of view, ""The Land without Shadows"" is a collection of seventeen short stories. The author, Abdourahman A. Waberi, one of a handful of francophone writers of fiction to have emerged in the twentieth century from the …
Land Without Shadows
Häftad, 2005
265 kr
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One of the first literary works to portray Djiboutians from their own point of view, ""The Land without Shadows"" is a collection of seventeen short stories. The author, Abdourahman A. Waberi, one of a handful of francophone writers of fiction to have emerged in the twentieth century from the …
Dog Days
An Animal Chronicle
Inbunden, 2006
834 kr
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I am a dog, the narrator of Patrice Nganang's novel plainly informs us. As such, he has learned not to expect too much from life. He can, however, observe the life around him - in his case the impoverished but dynamic Cameroon of the early 1990s, a time known as les annees de braise (the smoldering …
Dog Days
An Animal Chronicle
Häftad, 2006
283 kr
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I am a dog, the narrator of Patrice Nganang's novel plainly informs us. As such, he has learned not to expect too much from life. He can, however, observe the life around him - in his case the impoverished but dynamic Cameroon of the early 1990s, a time known as les annees de braise (the smoldering …
Rain of Words
A Bilingual Anthology of Women's Poetry in Francophone Africa
Inbunden, 2009
1126 kr
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Although the past two decades have seen a wide recognition of the notable fiction written in French by African women, little attention has been given to their equally significant poetry. ""A Rain of Words"" is the first comprehensive attempt to survey the poetic production of these women, …
Above All, Don't Look Back
Av Maissa Bey
Inbunden, 2009
980 kr
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Above All, Don't Look Back follows the path of a young woman - Amina - as she makes her way through a city, a life, and a sense of self that have been ravaged by an earthquake. In this powerful novel, inspired by a devastating earthquake in northern Algeria in 2003, the acclaimed Algerian writer …
Other Side of the Sea
A Novel
Häftad, 2014
329 kr
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The Other Side of the Sea, the first novel by this major Haitian author to be translated into English, expresses a powerful preoccupation with other shores - whether it is the ancestral Africa that still haunts Haitians, the America to which so many have emigrated, or even that final shore, the …
Arabic As a Secret Song
Nine Narratives from the Life of an Exiled Artist
Av Leïla Sebbar
Inbunden, 2015
1415 kr
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The celebrated and highly versatile writer Leïla Sebbar was born in French colonial Algeria but has lived nearly her entire adult life in France, where she is recognized as a major voice on the penetrating effects of colonialism in contemporary society. The dramatic contrast between her past and …
Arabic As a Secret Song
Nine Narratives from the Life of an Exiled Artist
Av Leïla Sebbar
Häftad, 2015
364 kr
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The celebrated and highly versatile writer Leïla Sebbar was born in French colonial Algeria but has lived nearly her entire adult life in France, where she is recognized as a major voice on the penetrating effects of colonialism in contemporary society. The dramatic contrast between her past and …
Memory at Bay
Häftad, 2015
364 kr
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Winner of the prestigious Prix Carbet--an award won by such distinguished authors as Maryse Condé, Jamaica Kincaid, and Raphaël Confiant-- Memory at Bay is now available in an English translation that brings to life this powerful novel by one of Haiti’s most vital authors, Évelyne Trouillot. …
Humus
Inbunden, 2020
899 kr
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While researching in Nantes, a port city enriched by the slave trade, celebrated French novelist Fabienne Kanor came across a chilling report written in 1774 by the commander of a slave ship, Le Soleil. Captain Louis Mosnier recounted the loss of valuable "cargo" when fourteen African women escaped …
Humus
Häftad, 2020
429 kr
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While researching in Nantes, a port city enriched by the slave trade, celebrated French novelist Fabienne Kanor came across a chilling report written in 1774 by the commander of a slave ship, Le Soleil. Captain Louis Mosnier recounted the loss of valuable "cargo" when fourteen African women escaped …
Wandering Memory
Inbunden, 2021
1323 kr
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The daughter of Haitian journalist and pro-democracy activist Jean Léopold Dominique, who was assassinated in 2000, Jan J. Dominique offers a memoir that provides a uniquely personal perspective on the tumultuous end of the twentieth century in Haiti. Wandering Memory is her elegy for a father and …
Wandering Memory
Häftad, 2021
471 kr
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The daughter of Haitian journalist and pro-democracy activist Jean Léopold Dominique, who was assassinated in 2000, Jan J. Dominique offers a memoir that provides a uniquely personal perspective on the tumultuous end of the twentieth century in Haiti. Wandering Memory is her elegy for a father and …
It Shall Be of Jasper and Coral
Inbunden, 2000
1035 kr
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These two novels, written by West African painter, writer, playwright and director Werewere Liking, spare nothing in their satirical portraits of the patriarchal view of African society as they experiment radically with the novel form.
Story of the Madman
A Novel
Av Mongo Beti
Häftad, 2001
329 kr
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Widely acclaimed when first published in French in 1994, Mongo Beti's tenth novel, L'histoire du fou, continues the author's humorous yet fierce criticism of the colonial system in Africa and its legacy of governmental corruption. Translated here as The Story of the Madman, the novel gives the …
In the Flicker of an Eyelid
A Novel
Häftad, 2002
329 kr
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In his third novel, Jacques Stephen Alexis brings his characteristically vivid scenes, political consciousness, and powerful characters to the dramatic age-old question of whether a prostitute can leave ""the life"" to find her own identity and true love. La Nina Estrellita is pursuing her trade …
