Under African Skies (eBook, ePUB)

Modern African Stories
Redaktion: Larson, Charles

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Spanning a wide geographical range, this collection features many of the now prominent first generation of African writers and draws attention to a new generation of writers. Powerful, intriguing and essentially non-Western, these stories will be welcome by an audience truly ready for multicultural voices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429952545
• Artikelnr.: 39933780

Autorenporträt

Edited and Introduced by Charles Larson

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION Amos Tutuola
(Nigeria) THE COMPLETE GENTLEMAN Camara Laye
(Guinea) THE EYES OF THE STATUE Birago Diop
(Senegal) SARZAN Sembene Ousmane
(Senegal) BLACK GIRL Luís Bernardo Honwana
(Mozambique) PAPA, SNAKE &, I Ngugi wa Thiong'o
(Kenya) A MEETING IN THE DARK Tayeb Salih
(Sudan) A HANDFUL OF DATES Es'kia Mphahlele
(South Africa) MRS. PLUM Grace Ogot
(Kenya) TEKAYO Ama Ata Aidoo
(Ghana) TWO SISTERS Chinua Achebe
(Nigeria) GIRLS AT WAR Bessie Head
(South Africa/Botswana) THE PRISONER WHO WORE GLASSES Similih M. Cordor
(Liberia) IN THE HOSPITAL René Philombe
(Cameroon) THE TRUE MARTYR IS ME Tijan M. Sallah
(Gambia) INNOCENT TERROR Ken Saro
Wiwa
(Nigeria) AFRICA KILLS HER SUN Don Mattera
(South Africa) AFRIKA ROAD Yvonne Vera
(Zimbabwe) WHY DON'T YOU CARVE OTHER ANIMALS Véronique Tadjo
(Ivory Coast) THE MAGICIAN AND THE GIRL Ben Okri
(Nigeria) A PRAYER FROM THE LIVING Alexander Kanengoni
(Zimbabwe) EFFORTLESS TEARS Mzamane Nhlapo
(Lesotho) GIVE ME A CHANCE Steve Chimombo
(Malawi) TAKEN Sindiwe Magona
(South Africa) I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT, NOW Nuruddin Farah
(Somalia) MY FATHER, THE ENGLISHMAN, AND I Mandla Langa
(South Africa) A GATHERING OF BALD MEN