Abyssinian Chronicles
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Abyssinian Chronicles
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Author : Moses Isegawa
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-04-13
Abyssinian Chronicles written by Moses Isegawa and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-13 with Fiction categories.
Every once in a while there emerges a literary voice with the power and urgency to immerse readers deep within a previously "invisible" culture. From a young African writer who has already earned comparisons to Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes this masterful saga of life in 20th-century Uganda. The teller of this panoramic tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. Born in a rural community in the early 1960s, he is raised by his grandfather, a deposed clan chief, and his great-aunt, or "grandmother," after his parents immigrate to the capital city of Kampala. At age nine, he leaves behind his secure life in the village to join his parents and siblings in the city, where he is first exposed to the despotism and hardship that he will contend with in the years to come. The nightmare reign of Idi Amin and its chaotic aftermath are the backdrop to Mugezi's troubled coming-of-age: his constant struggle with his harsh mother and austere father; his years spent as caregiver to his parents' ever-growing brood of children; his sojourn in a horrifically repressive Catholic seminary. He goes to work as a high school teacher, becomes enmeshed in a tragic romance, finds himself drawn into a dubious, potentially dangerous alliance with the military after Amin's fall and witnesses the widespread ravages of the AIDS virus. Finally, sickened by personal loss and national tragedy, he manages to immigrate to Amsterdam. The details of Mugezi's life provide a foundation for Isegawa's brilliant and profoundly illuminating portrait of the contemporary, postcolonial African experience. Filled with extraordinary characters, animated by a wicked sense of humor and guided by an intense yet clear-eyed compassion, Abyssianian Chronicles is our introduction to a superlative new writer.
Abyssinian Chronicles
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Author : Moses Isegawa
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-11-11
Abyssinian Chronicles written by Moses Isegawa and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-11 with Fiction categories.
Set in a tribal village during the years of the Idi Amin terror in Uganda, Abyssinian Chronicles takes us into the heart of Africa, vividly immersing us in the mesmerizing extremes of beauty and brutality, wisdom and ignorance, wealth and poverty, hope and despair that define the continent today. We come to intimately know an extended family rich in centuries-old tradition, and follow the unsentimental education of the boy who takes it all in, who learns, observes and teaches, and starts to feel the very earth moving under the African experience and the people he loves. Filled with extraordinary characters, animated by a wicked sense of humour and guided by intense, clear-eyed compassion, this novel feels at once classic and unique. ‘As Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children was for modern India, Abyssinian Chronicles will likely prove to be a breakthrough book for Uganda’ Time Out US ‘A spectacular first novel. Epic, sprawling, brimming with life – and death’ Elle US
Snakepit
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Author : Moses Isegawa
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Snakepit written by Moses Isegawa and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Fiction categories.
Praised on both sides of the Atlantic as well as in the author’s native Uganda, Moses Isegawa’s first novel Abyssinian Chronicles was a “big, transcendently ambitious book” (Boston Globe) that “blasts open the tidy borders of the conventional novel and redraws the literary map to reveal a whole new world” (Elle). In Snakepit, Isegawa returns to the surreal, brutalizing landscapes of his homeland during the time of dictator Idi Amin, when interlocking webs of emotional cruelty kept tyrants gratified and servants cooperative, a land where no one–not husbands or wives, parents or lovers–is ever safe from the implacable desires of men in power. Men like General Bazooka, who rues the day he hired Cambridge-educated Bat Katanga as his “Bureaucrat Two”–a man too good at his job–and places in his midst (and his bed) a seductive operative named Victoria, whose mission and motives are anything but simple. Ambitious and acquisitive, more than a little arrogant, Katanga finds himself steadily boxed in by events spiraling madly out of control, where deception, extortion, and murder are just so many cards to be played.
A New Generation Of African Writers
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Author : Brenda Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2013
A New Generation Of African Writers written by Brenda Cooper and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Literary Collections categories.
Brenda Cooper examines the work of the new generation of African writers who have placed migration as central to their writing
The Best American Travel Writing 2002
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Author : Frances Mayes
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2002
The Best American Travel Writing 2002 written by Frances Mayes and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This third volume in the series presents more exemplars of armchair reading (in this case, armchair listening), taking people away from daily routine to exotic, often remote settings.
A Voyage To Abyssinia
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Author : Henry Salt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1814
A Voyage To Abyssinia written by Henry Salt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1814 with Africa, East categories.
Africa Writes Back To Self
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Author : Evan M. Mwangi
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2010-07-02
Africa Writes Back To Self written by Evan M. Mwangi and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
The profound effects of colonialism and its legacies on African cultures have led postcolonial scholars of recent African literature to characterize contemporary African novels as, first and foremost, responses to colonial domination by the West. In Africa Writes Back to Self, Evan Maina Mwangi argues instead that the novels are primarily engaged in conversation with each other, particularly over emergent gender issues such as the representation of homosexuality and the disenfranchisement of women by male-dominated governments. He covers the work of canonical novelists Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, NguÅgiÅ wa Thiong'o, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as popular writers such as Grace Ogot, David Maillu, Promise Okekwe, and Rebeka Njau. Mwangi examines the novels' self-reflexive fictional strategies and their potential to refigure the dynamics of gender and sexuality in Africa and demote the West as the reference point for cultures of the Global South.
A Voyage To Abyssinia And Travels Into The Interior Of That Country
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Author : Henry Salt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1814
A Voyage To Abyssinia And Travels Into The Interior Of That Country written by Henry Salt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1814 with Africa, East categories.
Dictionary Of African Biography
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Author : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-02-02
Dictionary Of African Biography written by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).
Athenaeum And Literary Chronicle
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1838
Athenaeum And Literary Chronicle written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1838 with categories.