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The Witness as Educator

Reading W. G. Sebald, Aimé Césaire, and Walt Whitman

by David T. Hansen ...

Illuminates the power in bearing witness as an ethical orientation toward the world and its people.In The Witness as Educator, David T. Hansen examines the idea of bearing witness. He shows how it constitutes an ethical orientation that heeds human yearnings for justice, beauty, and meaning. He engages the work of three exemplary witnesses: W. G. Sebald, Aimé Césaire, and Walt Whitman. Sebald ... Read more

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Illuminates the power in bearing witness as an ethical orientation toward the world and its people.In The Witness as Educator, David T. Hansen examines the idea of bearing witness. He shows how it constitutes an ethical orientation that heeds human yearnings for justice, beauty, and meaning. He engages the work of three exemplary witnesses: W. G. Sebald, Aimé Césaire, and Walt Whitman. Sebald
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Nostromo

by Joseph Conrad ...

Series series The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time - Starbooks Classics Collection
Nostromo (full title Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard) is a 1904 novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". It was originally published serially in two volumes of T.P.'s Weekly.In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Nostromo 47th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "I'd rather ... Read more

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Nostromo (full title Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard) is a 1904 novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". It was originally published serially in two volumes of T.P.'s Weekly.In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Nostromo 47th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "I'd rather
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Heart Of Darkness

A Haunting Journey into Colonial Cruelty and Human Corruption by Joseph Conrad

by Joseph Conrad ...

The deeper you go, the darker it gets. Heart of Darkness is Joseph Conrad's searing novella about imperialism, moral decay, and the thin veneer of civilization. Set along the Congo River, this unforgettable tale follows one man's journey into the African interior—and into the most terrifying depths of the human soul. A voyage upriver becomes a descent into madness. Charles Marlow is sent to ... Read more

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The deeper you go, the darker it gets. Heart of Darkness is Joseph Conrad's searing novella about imperialism, moral decay, and the thin veneer of civilization. Set along the Congo River, this unforgettable tale follows one man's journey into the African interior—and into the most terrifying depths of the human soul. A voyage upriver becomes a descent into madness. Charles Marlow is sent to
... Read more
The Truth About Awiti

by CP Patrick ...

There is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they are retaliation by restless spirits impacted by one of the darkest chapters of world history—the trans-Atlantic slave trade.Awiti’s destiny was forever changed the day the slave raiders arrived at her village. She made a life-altering decision with ... Read more

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There is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they are retaliation by restless spirits impacted by one of the darkest chapters of world history—the trans-Atlantic slave trade.Awiti’s destiny was forever changed the day the slave raiders arrived at her village. She made a life-altering decision with
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Allan Quatermain Series,

10 Adventure stories of Allan Quatermain

by H. Rider Haggard ...

Series series Unsecretbooks publication
Allan Quatermain Series is written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, who was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential.Allan Quatermain is ... Read more

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Allan Quatermain Series is written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, who was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential.Allan Quatermain is
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Heart Of Darkness: The Original 1899 Edition (A Joseph Conrad Classic Novel)

by Joseph Conrad ...

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) is regarded as one of the greatest writers in English, and Heart of Darkness, first published in 1902, is considered by many his "most famous, finest, and most enigmatic story." — Encyclopedia Britannica. The tale concerns the journey of the narrator (Marlow) up the Congo River on behalf of a Belgian trading company. Far upriver, he encounters the mysterious Kurtz, an ... Read more

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Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) is regarded as one of the greatest writers in English, and Heart of Darkness, first published in 1902, is considered by many his "most famous, finest, and most enigmatic story." — Encyclopedia Britannica. The tale concerns the journey of the narrator (Marlow) up the Congo River on behalf of a Belgian trading company. Far upriver, he encounters the mysterious Kurtz, an
... Read more
Poor No More

by Robert Ruark ...

Poor No More is a story about Craig Price, a rural North Carolinian who grew up in poverty. As an adult, Price evolved into a tycoon who had amassed a financial fortune. His lifestyle and persona, at first, is appealing to many, yet in the end, he misleads and uses business partners and girlfriends. Unsurprisingly, his family life is a mess. While Craig Price accumulates more and more wealth and ... Read more

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Poor No More is a story about Craig Price, a rural North Carolinian who grew up in poverty. As an adult, Price evolved into a tycoon who had amassed a financial fortune. His lifestyle and persona, at first, is appealing to many, yet in the end, he misleads and uses business partners and girlfriends. Unsurprisingly, his family life is a mess. While Craig Price accumulates more and more wealth and
... Read more
Animal Farm

by George Orwell ...

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution ... Read more

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ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution
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Oral Literature in Africa

by Ruth Finnegan ...

Series Book 1 - World Oral Literature Series
Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa.This revised edition makes Finnegan’s ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new ... Read more

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Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa.This revised edition makes Finnegan’s ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new
... Read more
Decadent Genealogies

The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio

by Barbara Spackman ...

Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness. By means of an ideological and rhetorical analysis of scientific as well as literary texts, she shows how the rhetoric of sickness provided the male decadent writer with an alibi for the occupation and appropriation of the female body. ... Read more

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Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness. By means of an ideological and rhetorical analysis of scientific as well as literary texts, she shows how the rhetoric of sickness provided the male decadent writer with an alibi for the occupation and appropriation of the female body.
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Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Book Analysis)

Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

by Bright Summaries ...

Series series BrightSummaries.com
Unlock the more straightforward side of Half of a Yellow Sun with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a gripping novel set against the backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War in the 1960s, when the Igbo people attempted to secede from Nigeria to found the Republic of Biafra. The novel depicts ... Read more

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Unlock the more straightforward side of Half of a Yellow Sun with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a gripping novel set against the backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War in the 1960s, when the Igbo people attempted to secede from Nigeria to found the Republic of Biafra. The novel depicts
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The Literary History of the Igbo Novel

African Literature in African Languages

by Ernest N. Emenyonu ...

Series series Routledge African Studies
This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel.Defining "Igbo literature" as literature in Igbo language, and "Igbo novel" as a novel written in Igbo language, the author argues that oral and written literature in African ... Read more

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This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel.Defining "Igbo literature" as literature in Igbo language, and "Igbo novel" as a novel written in Igbo language, the author argues that oral and written literature in African
... Read more
Card Carrying Ace of Spades

by Jenni Gisselbrecht ...

Series Book 8 - Rise of the Hystericals
We as hyenas, one of the many more prominent species of both our original homeland of Africa and our so called, "Promised Land" of here in America are damn finally sick and tired of the quote unquote, "Dominant"'s insipid bullshit. We will no longer sit up here and be squashed like cockroaches beneath the feet of the ignorant, slaughtered like cattle of a fresh kill. Because if it's one true thing ... Read more

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We as hyenas, one of the many more prominent species of both our original homeland of Africa and our so called, "Promised Land" of here in America are damn finally sick and tired of the quote unquote, "Dominant"'s insipid bullshit. We will no longer sit up here and be squashed like cockroaches beneath the feet of the ignorant, slaughtered like cattle of a fresh kill. Because if it's one true thing
... Read more
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

A Routledge Study Guide

by David Whittaker, Mpalive-Hangson Msiska ...

Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is both a tragic and moving story of an individual set in the wider context of the coming of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement of cross-cultural encounters.This guide to Chinua Achebe’s compelling novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Things ... Read more

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Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is both a tragic and moving story of an individual set in the wider context of the coming of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement of cross-cultural encounters.This guide to Chinua Achebe’s compelling novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Things
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Yet Being Someone Other

by Sir Laurens Van Der Post ...

Yet Being Someone Other is the most revealing book that Laurens van der Post wrote about his extraordinary and eventful life, and the most far-reaching; it is a distillation of the experiences that have moved him at the deepest level of the imagination and made him the exceptional person and writer he was. ... Read more

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Yet Being Someone Other is the most revealing book that Laurens van der Post wrote about his extraordinary and eventful life, and the most far-reaching; it is a distillation of the experiences that have moved him at the deepest level of the imagination and made him the exceptional person and writer he was.
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Consenting victims

The polygamy drama

by Marie Claire Akamendo Bita ...

Consenting victims is the story of Olivia, a young african woman who believes that love is between one man and one woman, despite the fact that she lives in a country where polygamy is legitimate. Olivia leaves an unfaithful husband to marry a widow who, unfortunately, proves to be as adulterous.Some time after her, he marries one of his mistresses. Here are the two women under the same roof, ... Read more

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Consenting victims is the story of Olivia, a young african woman who believes that love is between one man and one woman, despite the fact that she lives in a country where polygamy is legitimate. Olivia leaves an unfaithful husband to marry a widow who, unfortunately, proves to be as adulterous.Some time after her, he marries one of his mistresses. Here are the two women under the same roof,
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Drawing the Line

What to Do with the Work of Immoral Artists from Museums to the Movies

by Erich Hatala Matthes ...

Can we still watch Woody Allen's movies? Can we still laugh at Bill Cosby's jokes? Woody Allen, Kevin Spacey, Dave Chappelle, Louis C. K., J.K. Rowling, Michael Jackson, Roseanne Barr. Recent years have proven rife with revelations about the misdeeds, objectional views, and, in some instances, crimes of popular artists. Spurred in part by the #metoo movement, and given more access than ever ... Read more

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Can we still watch Woody Allen's movies? Can we still laugh at Bill Cosby's jokes? Woody Allen, Kevin Spacey, Dave Chappelle, Louis C. K., J.K. Rowling, Michael Jackson, Roseanne Barr. Recent years have proven rife with revelations about the misdeeds, objectional views, and, in some instances, crimes of popular artists. Spurred in part by the #metoo movement, and given more access than ever
... Read more
The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys

by Elaine Savory ...

Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Since her death in 1979, Jean Rhys's reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpretations from radically different critical perspectives; formalism, feminism, and postcolonial studies among them. This Introduction offers a reliable and stimulating account of her life, work, contexts and critical reception. Her masterpiece, ... Read more

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Since her death in 1979, Jean Rhys's reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpretations from radically different critical perspectives; formalism, feminism, and postcolonial studies among them. This Introduction offers a reliable and stimulating account of her life, work, contexts and critical reception. Her masterpiece,
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Something Torn and New

An African Renaissance

by Ngugi wa Thiong'o ...

Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. In Something Torn and New, Ngugi explores Africa's historical, economic, and cultural fragmentation by slavery, colonialism, and ... Read more

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Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. In Something Torn and New, Ngugi explores Africa's historical, economic, and cultural fragmentation by slavery, colonialism, and
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Black Futurists In The Information Age: Vision Of A 21st Century Technological Renaissance

by Khafra K Om-Ra-Seti, Timothy L. Jenkins ...

Authors Timothy Jenkins and Khafra K Om-Ra-Zeti are suggesting that many of our problems and our solutions can be found in the current Information Age Technological Revolution. As Black Futurists, they are seeking to raise our consciousness to the accelerating historic transformations that are taking place during the 1990s, in an effort to spotlight the significance of technological change as a ... Read more

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Authors Timothy Jenkins and Khafra K Om-Ra-Zeti are suggesting that many of our problems and our solutions can be found in the current Information Age Technological Revolution. As Black Futurists, they are seeking to raise our consciousness to the accelerating historic transformations that are taking place during the 1990s, in an effort to spotlight the significance of technological change as a
... Read more
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Book Analysis)

Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

by Bright Summaries ...

Series series BrightSummaries.com
Unlock the more straightforward side of Things Fall Apart with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, which centres on the great warrior and champion wrestler Okonkwo as he deals with the challenges resulting from disagreements in his clan, the arrival of white missionaries in his village and the mounting ... Read more

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Unlock the more straightforward side of Things Fall Apart with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, which centres on the great warrior and champion wrestler Okonkwo as he deals with the challenges resulting from disagreements in his clan, the arrival of white missionaries in his village and the mounting
... Read more
Heart of Darkness with FREE Audiobook+Author's Biography+Active TOC

by Joseph Conrad ...

with FREE Audiobook + Author's Biography + Interactive Table of Contents Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. This highly ... Read more

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with FREE Audiobook + Author's Biography + Interactive Table of Contents Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. This highly
... Read more
Insurgent Testimonies

Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature

by Nicole M. Rizzuto ...

During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, insurgencies erupted in imperial states and colonies around the world, including Britain’s. As Nicole Rizzuto shows, the writings of Ukrainian-born Joseph Conrad, Anglo-Irish Rebecca West, Jamaicans H. G. de Lisser and V. S. Reid, and Kenyan Ng gi wa Thiong’o testify to contested events in colonial modernity in ... Read more

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During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, insurgencies erupted in imperial states and colonies around the world, including Britain’s. As Nicole Rizzuto shows, the writings of Ukrainian-born Joseph Conrad, Anglo-Irish Rebecca West, Jamaicans H. G. de Lisser and V. S. Reid, and Kenyan Ng gi wa Thiong’o testify to contested events in colonial modernity in
... Read more
AYESHA SERIES ( She, Ayesha, She and Allan )

(Adventure Tale)

by H. Rider Haggard ...

Series series Unsecretbooks publication
Ayesha Series is written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, who was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. Ayesha Series contains 3 ... Read more

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Ayesha Series is written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, who was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. Ayesha Series contains 3
... Read more

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