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Rereading Camara Laye
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Author : Adele King
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Rereading Camara Laye written by Adele King and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Camara Laye (1928?80) traveled to France from his native Guinea in 1947 on a scholarship to study automobile mechanics. While there, he was encouraged by a supporterøof the French Union to record the memories of his childhood. The resulting book, L'Enfant noir, was praised for its style and its uncritical attitude toward French colonization. A year later Laye published Le Regard du roi, a Kafkaesque story of a white man in Africa, which was very different in tone, style, and content from L'Enfant noir and from any other African literature being published at the time. L'Enfant noir and Le Regard du roi became seminal works of African fiction in French and were translated into English as The African Child and The Radiance of the King. Adele King met Camara Laye in 1978, two years before his death, and in 1980 published the principal study about him, The Writings of Camara Laye. In 1991 King set out to disprove rumors that Laye was not the author of one of his novels, Le Regard du roi. Instead she became convinced that the rumors were true and in the process unexpectedly discovered a far more interesting story about the creation of Laye as an author and public figure. Rereading Camara Laye describes King's research, which has taken more than ten years. Her inquiry involved finding those who knew Laye in Paris in the 1950s and interviewing them when possible as well as examining documents in libraries and archives in France and Belgium. King's findings provide important insights into French publishing and colonial politics in the years following World War II. She also shows how interpretations of Laye's novels have been shaped by the assumption that they were written by an African.
The Writings Of Camara Laye
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Author : Adele King
language : en
Publisher: London ; Ibadan [Nigeria] : Heinemann
Release Date : 1980
The Writings Of Camara Laye written by Adele King and has been published by London ; Ibadan [Nigeria] : Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Literary Criticism categories.
Camara Laye
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Author : Adele King
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Camara Laye written by Adele King and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Africa categories.
The Dark Child
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Author : Camara Laye
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 1954-01-01
The Dark Child written by Camara Laye and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. Long regarded Africa's preeminent Francophone novelist, Laye (1928-80) herein marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village goldsmith, and his own passage into manhood, which is marked by animistic beliefs and bloody rituals of primeval origin. Eventually, he must choose between this unique place and the academic success that lures him to distant cities. More than autobiography of one boy, this is the universal story of sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world. A passionate and deeply affecting record, The Dark Child is a classic of African literature.
The Radiance Of The King
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Author : Camara Laye
language : en
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Release Date : 1971
The Radiance Of The King written by Camara Laye and has been published by NYRB Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Fiction categories.
At the beginning of this masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked on the coast of Africa. Flush with self-importance, he demands to see the king, but the king has just left for the south of his realm. Traveling through an increasingly phantasmagoric landscape in the company of a beggar and two roguish boys, Clarence is gradually stripped of his pretensions, until he is sold to the royal harem as a slave. But in the end Clarence’s bewildering journey is the occasion of a revelation, as he discovers the image, both shameful and beautiful, of his own humanity in the alien splendor of the king.
Camara Laye
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Author : Sonia Lee
language : en
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
Release Date : 1984
Camara Laye written by Sonia Lee and has been published by Boston : Twayne Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Guardian Of The Word
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Author : Laye Camara
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Release Date : 1984
The Guardian Of The Word written by Laye Camara and has been published by Vintage Books USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Fiction categories.
From Africa
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Author : Adele King
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
From Africa written by Adele King and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Out of French-speaking Africa, from Togo, Chad, C–te d?Ivoire, Cameroon, Guinea, Congo, Rwanda, Djibouti, and Madagascar, comes the polyphony of newøvoices aired in this volume. The collection brings together fourteen important contemporary authors with roots in sub-Saharan French Africa and Madagascar, a new generation now living in France or the United States, and introduces their remarkable work to readers of English. These writers? stories, unlike earlier African literature, seldom resemble traditional folk tales. Instead they are concerned with the postindependence world and reveal in their rich and complex depths the influence of modern European and American short-story traditions as well as the enduring reach of African myths and legends. This gathering of gifted writers tenders modern versions of myths; nostalgia for childhood in Africa; relations between the sexes in contemporary Africa; continuing political problems; and the life of the African diaspora in France?all related in new and familiar ways, in innovative and traditional forms. Their work, most of it little known outside France and their native African countries, revises our understanding of the lingering effects of colonization even as it celebrates the complexity, exuberance, and tenacity of African culture.
Maps Of Empire
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Author : Kyle Wanberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2020
Maps Of Empire written by Kyle Wanberg and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Literary Criticism categories.
Maps of Empire examines how literature was affected by the decay and break up of old models of imperial administration in the mid-twentieth century.
Out In Africa
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Author : Chantal J. Zabus
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2013
Out In Africa written by Chantal J. Zabus 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 History categories.
Homosexuality was and still is thought to be quintessentially 'un-African'. Yet in this book Chantal Zabus examines the anthropological, cultural and literary representations of male and female same-sex desire from early colonial contacts between Europe and Africa in the nineteenth century to the present. Covering a broad geographical spectrum, from Mali to South Africa and from Senegal to Kenya, and adopting a comparative approach encompassing two colonial languages (English and French) and some African languages, 'Out in Africa' charts developments in Sub-Saharan African texts and contexts through the work of 7 colonial and some 25 postcolonial writers.