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Author: Francis Bebey Publisher: ISBN: Category : Africa Languages : en Pages : 164
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Mbenda, a young fisherman is in love with a modern young woman from a neighboring village. By tradition, a man marries the woman his father choses for him. Mbenda decides to marry both, which is allowable in his village, but that means his modern wife and his traditional wife must live together, and Mbenda will be in the middle.
Author: Francis Bebey Publisher: ISBN: Category : Africa Languages : en Pages : 164
Book Description
Mbenda, a young fisherman is in love with a modern young woman from a neighboring village. By tradition, a man marries the woman his father choses for him. Mbenda decides to marry both, which is allowable in his village, but that means his modern wife and his traditional wife must live together, and Mbenda will be in the middle.
Author: Francis Bebey Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 161374661X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 280
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Engaging and enlightening, this guide explores African music's forms, musicians, instruments, and place in the life of the people. A discography classified by country, theme, group, and instrument is also included.
Author: Kidi Bebey Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253057876 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 230
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My Kingdom for a Guitar is a novel based on the remarkable life of Cameroonian-born writer and musician Francis Bebey. Born in Douala, Cameroon, Bebey studied in Paris and New York. He found fame when his first novel, Le Fils d'Agatha Moudio (Agatha Moudio's Son), was published in 1967, and that fame continued to grow with the release of his first album in 1969. He would go on to become one of the best-known singer-songwriters of Africa, whose groundbreaking style merged Cameroonian makossa with classical guitar, jazz, and pop. Narrated by Bebey's daughter, Kidi, My Kingdom for a Guitar is a tribute to her late father and his family. Through a combination of recollections and fiction, it offers the reader a chance to witness the admiration of a daughter for her father and the love of a man for his music.
Author: Francis Bebey Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 168
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Mbenda, a young fisherman is in love with a modern young woman from a neighboring village. By tradition, a man marries the woman his father choses for him. Mbenda decides to marry both, which is allowable in his village, but that means his modern wife and his traditional wife must live together, and Mbenda will be in the middle.
Author: John Updike Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 0812983807 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 545
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In John Updike’s second collection of assorted prose he comes into his own as a book reviewer; most of the pieces picked up here were first published in The New Yorker in the 1960s and early ’70s. If one word could sum up the young critic’s approach to books and their authors it would be “generosity”: “Better to praise and share,” he says in his Foreword, “than to blame and ban.” And so he follows his enthusiasms, which prove both deserving and infectious: Kierkegaard, Proust, Joyce, Dostoevsky, and Hamsun among the classics; Borges, Nabokov, Grass, Bellow, Cheever, and Jong among the contemporaries. Here too are meditations on Satan and cemeteries, travel essays on London and Anguilla, three very early “golf dreams,” and one big interview. Picked-Up Pieces is a glittering treasury for every reader who likes life, books, wit—and John Updike.
Author: Dorothy S. Blair Publisher: CUP Archive ISBN: 9780521211956 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 380
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This 1976 book provides both a historical survey and a critical analysis of the literature in French from West and Equatorial Africa. Professor Blair begins by discussing the social, educational and political influences which led to the formation of the Negritude movement and to a flowering of French-African creative writing. This historical approach is then complemented by a study of the different literary genres. She traces the evolution of the first manifestations of literary activity in French by African writers, the written folk-tale, fable and short story, from the oral tradition of the indigenous culture, and the eventual appearance of the novel with a legendary or historical theme. The origins of French-African drama are considered for the first time, and the work of the minor poets analysed. Finally, Professor Blair attempts a definition of the French-African novel, and studies examples from three major periods from the 1930s onwards.
Author: Kathryn Batchelor Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317641140 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 291
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The linguistically innovative aspect of Francophone African literature has been recognized and studied from a variety of angles over recent decades, yet little attention has been paid to what happens to such literature when it is translated into another language. Taking as its corpus all sub-Saharan Francophone African texts that have ever been published in English, this book explores the ways in which translators approach innovative features such as African-language borrowings, neologisms and other deliberate manipulations of French, depictions of sociolinguistic variation, and a variety of types of wordplay. The implications of their translation decisions are drawn out with reference to the broader significances that are often accorded to postcolonial literature, and earlier critics' calls for a decolonized translation practice are explored from both a practical and theoretical angle. These findings are used to push towards a detailed investigation of the postcolonial turn in translation studies, drawing on the work of key postcolonial theorists such has Homi K. Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak. This is a timely and incisive critical assessment of contemporary discourses on the ethics and politics of translation.
Author: Peter Wuteh Vakunta Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 995655331X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 228
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Toward the Decolonization of the Europhone African Novel is a treatise on the problematics of language choice in Europhone African literature. Vakunta’s research is rooted in the notion that the postcolonial African fiction writer is at a crossroads of languages, groping for linguistic re-orientation. Using the prose of fiction of Patrice Nganang, Ahmadou Kourouma, Mercedes Fouda, Nazi Boni, and Gabriel K. Fonkou as corpus, he contends that postcolonial African fiction is an offshoot of a linguistic tinkering process that enables writers to tinker with the language of the ex-colonizer in a deliberate attempt to divest indigenous writing of its hegemonic vestiges.
Author: Ben West Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides ISBN: 1841623539 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 278
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A thoroughly updated edition of the most in-depth guide available to Cameroon, a country home to ancient tribal kingdoms, colorful trading towns, 'pygmy' hunting camps, and endangered lowland gorillas.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Arts Languages : en Pages : 1596
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A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
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