Author: John WarkentinPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773537198
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
A look at 150 years of writings about Canada's regions.
So Vast and Various
Author: John WarkentinPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773537198
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
A look at 150 years of writings about Canada's regions.
So Vast the Prison
Author: Assia DjebarPublisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 9781583220672
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
So Vast the Prison is the double-threaded story of a modern, educated Algerian woman existing in a man's society, and, not surprisingly, living a life of contradictions. Djebar, too, tackles cross-cultural issues just by writing in French of an Arab society (the actual act of writing contrasting with the strong oral traditions of the indigenous culture), as a woman who has seen revolution in a now post-colonial country, and as an Algerian living in exile. In this new novel, Djebar brilliantly plays these contradictions against the bloody history of Carthage, a great civilization the Berbers were once compared to, and makes it both a tribute to the loss of Berber culture and a meeting-point of culture and language. As the story of one woman's experience in Algeria, it is a private tale, but one embedded in a vast history. A radically singular voice in the world of literature, Assia Djebar's work ultimately reaches beyond the particulars of Algeria to embrace, in stark yet sensuous language, the universal themes of violence, intimacy, ostracism, victimization, and exile.
Occasional addresses
Author: Thomas Brackett ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Speeches, addresses, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking
Author: Wesley Washington PaskoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
Author: David Josiah BrewerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The Garden
Author: The Architectural Forum
Author: Journal of the Royal Society of Arts
Author: Cassell's History of the United States
Author: Edmund OllierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: Hugh ChisholmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description