Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The engaging author of Riding the Iron Rooster entertains with a satirical look at a Chinese Catholic grocer living in East Africa. While others plague him about politics, all Fong wants is for the milk train to wreck so he can sell his precious dairy products.
Fong and the Indians
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The engaging author of Riding the Iron Rooster entertains with a satirical look at a Chinese Catholic grocer living in East Africa. While others plague him about politics, all Fong wants is for the milk train to wreck so he can sell his precious dairy products.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The engaging author of Riding the Iron Rooster entertains with a satirical look at a Chinese Catholic grocer living in East Africa. While others plague him about politics, all Fong wants is for the milk train to wreck so he can sell his precious dairy products.
Fong and the Indians
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Een Chinese immigrant in een pas onafhankelijk geworden Afrikaanse staat weet zich temidden van misverstand en bedrog te handhaven door zijn naïviteit.
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Een Chinese immigrant in een pas onafhankelijk geworden Afrikaanse staat weet zich temidden van misverstand en bedrog te handhaven door zijn naïviteit.
African Settings in Contemporary American Novels
Author: Dave Kuhne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313371342
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Africa has long captured the Western imagination as a land shrouded in danger and mystery. British and American novels written before World War II established popular conventions and stereotypes about Africa that have been increasingly challenged by contemporary American novels set in Africa. Kuhne's book overviews the ways in which Africa has been employed as a powerful setting for American novels written since World War II. Kuhne argues that contemporary American novels with African settings are largely didactic, that these novels convey specific lessons about Africa and Africans, and that they compare African and American cultures in order to evaluate and critique the two worlds. The book begins by summarizing the conventions and themes Westerners have traditionally associated with Africa and by detailing how British and American authors from Aphra Behn to Ernest Hemingway depicted Africa before World War II. It then looks at contemporary American novels set in invented African nations, novels that typically suggest that the problems that trouble actual African nations are the result of colonialism. A separate chapter then examines the African novels of African Americans, which generally aim to correct the historical record, refute stereotypes, and detail the horrors of the slave trade. The volume also looks at genre fiction set in Africa, while a final chapter discusses postcolonial novels with African settings.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313371342
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Africa has long captured the Western imagination as a land shrouded in danger and mystery. British and American novels written before World War II established popular conventions and stereotypes about Africa that have been increasingly challenged by contemporary American novels set in Africa. Kuhne's book overviews the ways in which Africa has been employed as a powerful setting for American novels written since World War II. Kuhne argues that contemporary American novels with African settings are largely didactic, that these novels convey specific lessons about Africa and Africans, and that they compare African and American cultures in order to evaluate and critique the two worlds. The book begins by summarizing the conventions and themes Westerners have traditionally associated with Africa and by detailing how British and American authors from Aphra Behn to Ernest Hemingway depicted Africa before World War II. It then looks at contemporary American novels set in invented African nations, novels that typically suggest that the problems that trouble actual African nations are the result of colonialism. A separate chapter then examines the African novels of African Americans, which generally aim to correct the historical record, refute stereotypes, and detail the horrors of the slave trade. The volume also looks at genre fiction set in Africa, while a final chapter discusses postcolonial novels with African settings.
Constitutional Rights of the American Indian
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
African, American
Author: David Peterson del Mar
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1783608560
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Africa has long gripped the American imagination. From the Edenic wilderness of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan novels to the ‘black Zion’ of Garvey’s Back-to-Africa movement, all manner of Americans - whether white or black, male or female - have come to see Africa as an idealized stage on which they can fashion new, more authentic selves. In this remarkable, panoramic work, David Peterson del Mar explores the ways in which American fantasies of Africa have evolved over time, as well as the role of Africans themselves in subverting American attitudes to their continent. Spanning seven decades, from the post-war period to the present day, and encompassing sources ranging from literature, film and music to accounts by missionaries, aid workers and travel writers, African, American is a fascinating deconstruction of ‘Africa’ as it exists in the American mindset.
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1783608560
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Africa has long gripped the American imagination. From the Edenic wilderness of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan novels to the ‘black Zion’ of Garvey’s Back-to-Africa movement, all manner of Americans - whether white or black, male or female - have come to see Africa as an idealized stage on which they can fashion new, more authentic selves. In this remarkable, panoramic work, David Peterson del Mar explores the ways in which American fantasies of Africa have evolved over time, as well as the role of Africans themselves in subverting American attitudes to their continent. Spanning seven decades, from the post-war period to the present day, and encompassing sources ranging from literature, film and music to accounts by missionaries, aid workers and travel writers, African, American is a fascinating deconstruction of ‘Africa’ as it exists in the American mindset.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1770
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1770
Book Description
Constitutional Rights of the American Indian
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Rivers and Harbours - Flood Control, 1962, Hearings ... 87-2
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1716
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1716
Book Description
Rivers and Harbors, Flood Control, 1962
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Flood Control: Rivers and Harbors
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 1720
Book Description
Considers (87) S. 2762, (87) S. 3541, (87) S. 3310, (87) S. 1056, (87) S. 3072.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 1720
Book Description
Considers (87) S. 2762, (87) S. 3541, (87) S. 3310, (87) S. 1056, (87) S. 3072.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description