Author: Maude BurbankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Maids of All Nations
Author: Maude BurbankSouls Forgotten
Author: Francis B. NyamnjohPublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956558125
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
One day, Mama Ngonsu told her son: "Normally, a child grew up and stayed around to help his parents. The world has changed, and things are no longer as they used to be. Things must not be normal all the time, otherwise life would not be life." When Emmanuel Kwanga gets a University scholarship, he travels from the lake and hills of Abehema to the Great City. Everyone in the village has invested in him their hopes for the good life. When the life they've imagined is cut short by the University guillotine, Emmanuel Kwanga must struggle to make sense of what the good life means - for himself and for Abehema - in a world where things are no longer as they used to be. This novel is about coming of age and coming to terms in Mimboland. It is also about the fragility of life and the strength of the human spirit. The filth and screaming splendor of the city and the perplexed tranquility of the village are juxtaposed, as the tension and conviviality between tradition and modernity are lived and explored. Roads and drivers, dreams and public transport link different geographies. Faltering along or speeding away, these spaces of risk, frustration and solidarity are filled with popular songs as vehicles for understanding events and relationships. With every crossing of the Pont de Maturit the story flows, and its mysteries surge. In this novel, the worlds of the living and the dead intermingle, as do the natural and the supernatural, the visible and the invisible.
Undressing the Maid
Author: Johanna ValeniusPublisher: Finnish Literature Society
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This study analyses how the imaginary Finnish Maid (Suomi-neito) was used to construct the Finnish nation at the turn of the 20th century. It focuses on gender, femininity and masculinity, sexuality and body as well as on the images of virginity, bridehood and sexual violence. The study argues that Finnish male intellectuals saw the Finnish nation as their female beloved, a potential bride, but that they did not get her and the Finnish Maid remained an eternal virgin. In addition, the Finnish Maid was seen as being raped by the Russians. The materials analysed in this study consist of caricatures, poems and national monuments.
The manners and customs of all nations; also, remarkable biographies, histories, sects &c
Author: John PlattsA History of All Nations, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time
Author: Samuel Griswold GoodrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Historical Collections of All Nations
Author: John FrostPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
History of All Nations ...
Author: Samuel Griswold GoodrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Women of All Nations
Author: Thomas Athol JoycePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage customs and rites
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Global Woman
Author: Barbara EhrenreichPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805075090
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Two social scientists chart the consequences of the global economy on women across the world, revealing the underground economy that has turned many poor women into virtual slaves.
The Present State of All Nations
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description