Author: Efemia Chela
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780620745406
Category : African fiction (English).
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Migrations
Author: Efemia Chela
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780620745406
Category : African fiction (English).
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780620745406
Category : African fiction (English).
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa
Author: Sibongile Fisher
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1780264062
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Short Story Day Africa presents its annual anthology. The stories explore true and alternative African culture through a competition on the theme of Migrations. 'Wherever we go, so do our stories.' Shortlisted Authors: Sibongile Fisher (South Africa), Mirette Bhagat Eskaros (Egypt), Blaize Kaye (South Africa), Megan Ross (South Africa), Stacy Hardy (South Africa), TJ Benson (Nigeria).
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1780264062
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Short Story Day Africa presents its annual anthology. The stories explore true and alternative African culture through a competition on the theme of Migrations. 'Wherever we go, so do our stories.' Shortlisted Authors: Sibongile Fisher (South Africa), Mirette Bhagat Eskaros (Egypt), Blaize Kaye (South Africa), Megan Ross (South Africa), Stacy Hardy (South Africa), TJ Benson (Nigeria).
Feast, Famine and Potluck
Author: Karen Jennings
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 0620588861
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A dazzling collection from across the African continent and diaspora here SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA has assembled the best nineteen stories from their 2013 competition. Food is at the centre of stories from authors emerging and established, blending the secular, the supernatural, the old and the new in a spectacular celebration of short fiction. Civil wars, evictions, vacations, feasts and romances the stories we bring to our tables that bring us together and tear us apart.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 0620588861
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A dazzling collection from across the African continent and diaspora here SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA has assembled the best nineteen stories from their 2013 competition. Food is at the centre of stories from authors emerging and established, blending the secular, the supernatural, the old and the new in a spectacular celebration of short fiction. Civil wars, evictions, vacations, feasts and romances the stories we bring to our tables that bring us together and tear us apart.
Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa
Author: Macsmart Ojiludu
Publisher: Catalyst Press
ISBN: 9781946395573
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
These stories by new and emerging writers from the continent of Africa all tackle the theme of 'Disruption' in ingenious ways and represent a range of genres, from Innocent Ilo's imaginative exploration of a post-apocalyptic African village, to Victor Forna's stylistic take on the destruction of humanity. Masiyaleti Mbewe's brutal tale of Apartheid and climate change through the eyes of a time-traveling cyborg sits alongside Genna Gardini's diverting allegory of companionship and an escaped exotic pet. The 2021 anthology features stories from across the continent, from Libya to Sierra Leone to Zambia to South Africa, and also includes a translated story, 'Armando's Virtuous Crime' by Najwa Bin Shatwan, translated from Arabic into English by Sawad Hussain.
Publisher: Catalyst Press
ISBN: 9781946395573
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
These stories by new and emerging writers from the continent of Africa all tackle the theme of 'Disruption' in ingenious ways and represent a range of genres, from Innocent Ilo's imaginative exploration of a post-apocalyptic African village, to Victor Forna's stylistic take on the destruction of humanity. Masiyaleti Mbewe's brutal tale of Apartheid and climate change through the eyes of a time-traveling cyborg sits alongside Genna Gardini's diverting allegory of companionship and an escaped exotic pet. The 2021 anthology features stories from across the continent, from Libya to Sierra Leone to Zambia to South Africa, and also includes a translated story, 'Armando's Virtuous Crime' by Najwa Bin Shatwan, translated from Arabic into English by Sawad Hussain.
The Short Story in South Africa
Author: Rebecca Fasselt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000562409
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The short story genre, whilst often marginalised in national literary canons, has been central to the trajectory of literary history in South Africa. In recent years, the short story has undergone a significant renaissance, with new collections and young writers making a significant impact on the contemporary literary scene, and subgenres such as speculative fiction, erotic fiction, flash fiction and queer fiction expanding rapidly in popularity. This book examines the role of the short story genre in reflecting or championing new developments in South African writing and the ways in which traditional boundaries and definitions of the short story in South Africa have been reimagined in the present. Drawing together a range of critical interventions, including scholarly articles, interviews and personal reflective pieces, the volume traces some of the aesthetic and thematic continuities and discontinuities in the genre and sheds new light on questions of literary form. Finally, the book considers the place of the short story in twenty-first century writing and interrogates the ways in which the short story form may contribute to, or recast ideas of, the post-apartheid or post-transitional. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000562409
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The short story genre, whilst often marginalised in national literary canons, has been central to the trajectory of literary history in South Africa. In recent years, the short story has undergone a significant renaissance, with new collections and young writers making a significant impact on the contemporary literary scene, and subgenres such as speculative fiction, erotic fiction, flash fiction and queer fiction expanding rapidly in popularity. This book examines the role of the short story genre in reflecting or championing new developments in South African writing and the ways in which traditional boundaries and definitions of the short story in South Africa have been reimagined in the present. Drawing together a range of critical interventions, including scholarly articles, interviews and personal reflective pieces, the volume traces some of the aesthetic and thematic continuities and discontinuities in the genre and sheds new light on questions of literary form. Finally, the book considers the place of the short story in twenty-first century writing and interrogates the ways in which the short story form may contribute to, or recast ideas of, the post-apartheid or post-transitional. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.
Season of Migration to the North
Author: al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ
Publisher: Penguin Group(CA)
ISBN: 9780141187204
Category : Arabs
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
'SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTH-An Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions. The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led him to London and the beds of women with similar obsessions about the mysterious East. He kills them at the point of ecstasy and the Occident, in its turn, destroys him. Powerfully and poetically written and splendidly translated by Denys Johnson-Davies.' Observer
Publisher: Penguin Group(CA)
ISBN: 9780141187204
Category : Arabs
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
'SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTH-An Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions. The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led him to London and the beds of women with similar obsessions about the mysterious East. He kills them at the point of ecstasy and the Occident, in its turn, destroys him. Powerfully and poetically written and splendidly translated by Denys Johnson-Davies.' Observer
Jambula Tree
Author: Monica Arac de Nyeko
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1904456731
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa's leading literary prize, is for a short story published in English by a writer of African origin. Each year, the winning story and shortlisted entries are collected and published in one volume. The eighth winner is Monica Arac de Nyeko from Uganda for Jambula Tree. Chair of Judges Jamal Mahjoub from Sudan describes her story as a witty and touching portrait of a community which is affected forever by a love which blossoms between two adolescents.''
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1904456731
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa's leading literary prize, is for a short story published in English by a writer of African origin. Each year, the winning story and shortlisted entries are collected and published in one volume. The eighth winner is Monica Arac de Nyeko from Uganda for Jambula Tree. Chair of Judges Jamal Mahjoub from Sudan describes her story as a witty and touching portrait of a community which is affected forever by a love which blossoms between two adolescents.''
ID Identity
Author: Helen Moffett
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1780264607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Short Story day africabrings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers and school children from all over the globe to write, submit, read, workshop and discuss stories. The theme for Short Story Day Africa's (SSDA) latest anthology is 'Identity'. It's annual competition sought innovative short fiction exploring identity, especially (but not limited to) the themes of gender identity and sexuality. The shortlist of 1st, 2nd and 3rd place will be announced in early 2018. Limbo by Innocent Ilo - Nigeria All Our Lives by Okafor Tochukwu - Nigeria Borrowed by the Wind by David Medalie - South Africa God Skin by Michael Yee - South Africa Who We Were Then, Who We Are Now by Nadu Ologoudou - Benin Plums by Kharys Laue - South Africa Waiting by Harriet Anena - Uganda The Piano Player by Agazit Abate - Ethiopia A Brief Eruption Of Madness by Eric Essono Tsimi - Cameroon When the War Came Home by Heran Abate - Ethiopia Ibinabo by Michael Agugom - Nigeria Fever by Alithnayn Abdulkareem - Nigeria Unblooming by Alexis Teyie - Kenya Transubstantiation by Genna Gardini - South Africa Taba by Adelola Ojutiku - Nigeria Bloated by Hanna Ali - Somalia The Geography of Sunflowers by Michelle Angwenyi - Kenya The House on the Corner by Lester Walbrugh - South Africa Blue in Green by Chourouq Nasri -Morocco Sew Your Mouth by Cherrie Kandie - Kenya South of Samora by Farai Mudzingwa - Zimbabwe
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1780264607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Short Story day africabrings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers and school children from all over the globe to write, submit, read, workshop and discuss stories. The theme for Short Story Day Africa's (SSDA) latest anthology is 'Identity'. It's annual competition sought innovative short fiction exploring identity, especially (but not limited to) the themes of gender identity and sexuality. The shortlist of 1st, 2nd and 3rd place will be announced in early 2018. Limbo by Innocent Ilo - Nigeria All Our Lives by Okafor Tochukwu - Nigeria Borrowed by the Wind by David Medalie - South Africa God Skin by Michael Yee - South Africa Who We Were Then, Who We Are Now by Nadu Ologoudou - Benin Plums by Kharys Laue - South Africa Waiting by Harriet Anena - Uganda The Piano Player by Agazit Abate - Ethiopia A Brief Eruption Of Madness by Eric Essono Tsimi - Cameroon When the War Came Home by Heran Abate - Ethiopia Ibinabo by Michael Agugom - Nigeria Fever by Alithnayn Abdulkareem - Nigeria Unblooming by Alexis Teyie - Kenya Transubstantiation by Genna Gardini - South Africa Taba by Adelola Ojutiku - Nigeria Bloated by Hanna Ali - Somalia The Geography of Sunflowers by Michelle Angwenyi - Kenya The House on the Corner by Lester Walbrugh - South Africa Blue in Green by Chourouq Nasri -Morocco Sew Your Mouth by Cherrie Kandie - Kenya South of Samora by Farai Mudzingwa - Zimbabwe
Hotel Africa
Author: Helen Moffett
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 9781780265056
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Check-in... To five-star neon-lit luxury. To budget motels with the option to pay by the hour. To intimate anonymous rooms wiped clean every twenty-four hours or clammy beds where remnants of yesterday's guests still lurk. Check-in... Lovers, aid workers, businessmen local and foreign, wedding guests, gap-year travellers, volunteer tourists, honeymooners, UN soldiers, politicians, adventure seekers, evangelists, holidaymakers, warmongers, peacekeepers. Check-in... To hotels made of brick and cement and blood and sweat. Hotels made of corrugated iron and clay and hope and faith. Hotels celebrated, hotels forgotten. Hotels that have served as shelter for the night or refuge when the shots rang out. Check-in to Hotel Africa. The latest Short Story Day Africa prize and anthology theme is Hotel Africa. Innovative short fiction set in the rooms, the passages, the bars and the lobbies of hotels across the continent, as well as metafiction exploring Africa as a hotel herself. If these walls could talk, what story would they tell?
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 9781780265056
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Check-in... To five-star neon-lit luxury. To budget motels with the option to pay by the hour. To intimate anonymous rooms wiped clean every twenty-four hours or clammy beds where remnants of yesterday's guests still lurk. Check-in... Lovers, aid workers, businessmen local and foreign, wedding guests, gap-year travellers, volunteer tourists, honeymooners, UN soldiers, politicians, adventure seekers, evangelists, holidaymakers, warmongers, peacekeepers. Check-in... To hotels made of brick and cement and blood and sweat. Hotels made of corrugated iron and clay and hope and faith. Hotels celebrated, hotels forgotten. Hotels that have served as shelter for the night or refuge when the shots rang out. Check-in to Hotel Africa. The latest Short Story Day Africa prize and anthology theme is Hotel Africa. Innovative short fiction set in the rooms, the passages, the bars and the lobbies of hotels across the continent, as well as metafiction exploring Africa as a hotel herself. If these walls could talk, what story would they tell?
Selves
Author: Sibongile Fisher
Publisher: Afro Anthology Series
ISBN: 1717457975
Category : African literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Selves is the first independent Creative Nonfiction anthology from Africa. Selves: An Afro Anthology of Creative Nonfiction features twenty-four writings by African Writers which speak from a passionate place, unafraid of the consequences, revealing even to the point of shame, essays that pry open personal Pandora boxes, revealing the secrets imprisoned beyond mental bars. Essays that hold the potential for personal healing even as personal hurts are replayed on the pages.
Publisher: Afro Anthology Series
ISBN: 1717457975
Category : African literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Selves is the first independent Creative Nonfiction anthology from Africa. Selves: An Afro Anthology of Creative Nonfiction features twenty-four writings by African Writers which speak from a passionate place, unafraid of the consequences, revealing even to the point of shame, essays that pry open personal Pandora boxes, revealing the secrets imprisoned beyond mental bars. Essays that hold the potential for personal healing even as personal hurts are replayed on the pages.