The Brave African Huntress

The Brave African Huntress PDF Author: Amos Tutuola
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571311385
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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This is the story of Adebisi, a brave African huntress who sets out for the Jungle of the Pigmies to rescue her four brothers. Along the way, she conquers a giant, serves as the barber to a king and endures the horrors of the pigmies' prison. Yet she will not give up. By employing her strength and intelligence, she finds a way to release her brothers and returns home to a hero's welcome.

The Brave African Huntress

The Brave African Huntress PDF Author: Amos Tutuola
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571311385
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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This is the story of Adebisi, a brave African huntress who sets out for the Jungle of the Pigmies to rescue her four brothers. Along the way, she conquers a giant, serves as the barber to a king and endures the horrors of the pigmies' prison. Yet she will not give up. By employing her strength and intelligence, she finds a way to release her brothers and returns home to a hero's welcome.

The Brave African Huntress/by Amos Tutuola ; Illustrated By... Ben Enwonwu

The Brave African Huntress/by Amos Tutuola ; Illustrated By... Ben Enwonwu PDF Author: Amos Tutuola
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The Brave African Huntress ... Illustrated by Ben Enwonwu

The Brave African Huntress ... Illustrated by Ben Enwonwu PDF Author: Amos Tutuola
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Brave African

Brave African PDF Author: Tutuola Amos Staff
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ISBN: 9780571213115
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Languages : en
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Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle

Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle PDF Author: Amos Tutuola
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571311342
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111

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Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle is the fabulous tale of Simbi, a rich and beautiful girl with a wonderful singing voice. She tires of her comfortable lifestyle, and decides that she must come to know poverty and punishment. The story tells, with terrifying imagination and comic invention, of how she achieves this experience and how, in the end, she escapes from it. Amos Tutuola was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1920. His first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, was acquired by T. S. Eliot and published by Faber in 1952.

Preserving the Landscape of Imagination

Preserving the Landscape of Imagination PDF Author: Raoul Granqvist
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042001602
Category : African literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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The Black Mind

The Black Mind PDF Author: Oscar Ronald Dathorne
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912289
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Languages : en
Pages : 541

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The Oxford History of the Novel in English

The Oxford History of the Novel in English PDF Author: Simon Gikandi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190628162
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering these questions and more, Volume 11, The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 explores the institutions of cultural production that exerted influence in late colonialism, from missionary schools and metropolitan publishers to universities and small presses. How these structures provoke and respond to the literary trends and social peculiarities of Africa and the Caribbean impacts not only the writing and reading of novels in those regions, but also has a transformative effect on the novel as a global phenomenon. Together, the volume's 32 contributing experts tell a story about the close relationship between the novel and the project of decolonization, and explore the multiple ways in which novels enable readers to imagine communities beyond their own and thus made this form of literature a compelling catalyst for cultural transformation. The authors show that, even as the novel grows in Africa and the Caribbean as a mark of the elites' mastery of European form, it becomes the essential instrument for critiquing colonialism and for articulating the new horizons of cultural nationalism. Within this historical context, the volume examines works by authors such as Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Zoe Wicomb, J. M. Coetzee, and many others.

At the Crossroads

At the Crossroads PDF Author: Rebecca Jones
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1847012221
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2020 'Honorable Mention' for the ALA FIRST BOOK AWARD - SCHOLARSHIP 2021 A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing.

Debt, Law, Realism

Debt, Law, Realism PDF Author: Neil ten Kortenaar
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 022800781X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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In the decade before and after independence, Nigerians not only adopted the novel but reinvented the genre. Nigerian novels imagined the new state, with its ideals of the rule of law, state sovereignty, and a centralized administration. Debt, Law, Realism argues that Nigerian novels were not written for a Western audience, as often stated, but to teach fellow citizens how to envision the state. The first Nigerian novels were overwhelmingly realist because realism was a way to convey the understanding shared by all subject to the rule of law. Debt was an important theme used to illustrate the social trust needed to live with strangers. But the novelists felt an ambivalence towards the state, which had been imposed by colonial military might. Even as they embraced the ideal of the rule of law, they kept alive a memory of other ways of governing themselves. Many of the first novelists – including Chinua Achebe – were Igbos, a people who had been historically stateless, and for whom justice had been a matter of interpersonal relations, consensus, and reciprocity, rather than a citizen’s subordination to a higher authority. Debt, Law, Realism reads African novels as political philosophy, offering important lessons about the foundations of social trust, the principle of succession, and the nature of sovereignty, authority, and law.