Jean-Michel Mabeko-Tali

Tales from the Great Marsh

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Produktbeschreibung

Inspired by the author's childhood experience in the deep countryside of his native country, the Republic of the Congo, Tales from the Great Marsh represents a collection of short stories which illustrate a complex picture of life in a contemporary African society still rooted in its traditional beliefs and practices. Through short fictional stories, the author explores the complexity of social, cultural as well as religious, and spiritual experiences of a Bantu rural society when confronted with the challenges posed by specific existential situations such as death and modern politics, as well as the challenges posed by the encounter with the otherness. These fictional stories which marry myth and reality, are deployed towards producing knowledge that takes into account the surviving cultural aspects of old African societies formerly considered minor in studies of the continent's past and present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Austin Macauley Publishers LLC
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 120g
• ISBN-13: 9781685622848
• ISBN-10: 1685622844
• Artikelnr.: 69428208

Autorenporträt

Jean-Michel Mabeko-Tali is professor of African history at Howard University in Washington, DC, since 2002. He was born and raised in the Republic of the Congo-Brazzaville and holds a Ph.D. degree in History from the University Paris VII Denis-Diderot, France, and MA in African Studies from the University of Bordeaux, France. Essayist, specialist in Angolan and Congolese Social and Political Modern History, he is the author of numerous publications on contemporary Angola and Congo. He is also the author of novels, published in France.