Author: KEN. SARO-WIWA
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781035900442
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Craig W. McLuckie
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9780894108839
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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"The authors examine Saro-Wiwa's literary output both in terms of literary criticism and within a political framework. They give equal attention to his more public roles, including public reaction within Nigeria to his work."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Charles E. Nnolim
Publisher: Saros International Pub
ISBN: 9781870716215
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Onookome Okome
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865437456
Category : Dissenters in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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This is an extensive study of Kenule Saro-Wiwa, the Ogoni Minority and Human Rights activist who was judicially murdered in 1995. Questions of nationhood, ethnic minority and power politics in Nigeria are discussed in a collection of essays that examine the corpus of his literary and political ideas, pointing out the direction of his thought and the enduring contribution that Sara-Wiwa made to Nigeria's literary and political arenas.

Author: Ken Saro-Wiwa
Publisher: Saros International Publishers
ISBN:
Category : African fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Emily Apter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400841216
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework of linguistic fidelity to an original, is ripe for expansion as the basis for a new comparative literature. Organized around a series of propositions that range from the idea that nothing is translatable to the idea that everything is translatable, The Translation Zone examines the vital role of translation studies in the "invention" of comparative literature as a discipline. Apter emphasizes "language wars" (including the role of mistranslation in the art of war), linguistic incommensurability in translation studies, the tension between textual and cultural translation, the role of translation in shaping a global literary canon, the resistance to Anglophone dominance, and the impact of translation technologies on the very notion of how translation is defined. The book speaks to a range of disciplines and spans the globe. Ultimately, The Translation Zone maintains that a new comparative literature must take stock of the political impact of translation technologies on the definition of foreign or symbolic languages in the humanities, while recognizing the complexity of language politics in a world at once more monolingual and more multilingual.

Author: Noo Saro-Wiwa
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 159376491X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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A “remarkable chronicle” of a journey back to this West African nation after years of exile (The New York Times Book Review). Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria—a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. After her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was killed there, she didn’t return for several years. Then she decided to come to terms with the country her father given his life for. Traveling from the exuberant chaos of Lagos to the calm beauty of the eastern mountains; from the eccentricity of a Nigerian dog show to the decrepit kitsch of the Transwonderland Amusement Park, she explores Nigerian Christianity, delves into the country’s history of slavery, examines the corrupting effect of oil, and ponders the huge success of Nollywood. She finds the country as exasperating as ever, and frequently despairs at the corruption and inefficiency she encounters. But she also discovers that it is far more beautiful and varied than she had ever imagined, with its captivating thick tropical rain forest and ancient palaces and monuments—and most engagingly and entertainingly, its unforgettable people. “The author allows her love-hate relationship with Nigeria to flavor this thoughtful travel journal, lending it irony, wit and frankness.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author: Uzodinma Iweala
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061844543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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“Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures the horror of ethnic violence in all its brutality and the vulnerability of youth in all its innocence.” —Entertainment Weekly (A) The harrowing, utterly original debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country As civil war rages in an unnamed West-African nation, Agu, the school-aged protagonist of this stunning novel, is recruited into a unit of guerilla fighters. Haunted by his father’s own death at the hands of militants, which he fled just before witnessing, Agu is vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new commander. While the war rages on, Agu becomes increasingly divorced from the life he had known before the conflict started—a life of school friends, church services, and time with his family, still intact. As he vividly recalls these sunnier times, his daily reality continues to spin further downward into inexplicable brutality, primal fear, and loss of selfhood. In a powerful, strikingly original voice, Uzodinma Iweala leads the reader through the random travels, betrayals, and violence that mark Agu’s new community. Electrifying and engrossing, Beasts of No Nation announces the arrival of an extraordinary writer.

Author: Holger G. Ehling
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042014862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Includes articles, interviews, creative writing, and book reviews.

Author: Carol M. Eastman
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824819712
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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This collection of essays examines various aspects of leadership from several disciplinary perspectives.