The Negro Grandsons Of Vercingetorix
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The Negro Grandsons Of Vercingetorix
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Author : Alain Mabanckou
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-01
The Negro Grandsons Of Vercingetorix written by Alain Mabanckou and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with Fiction categories.
Set in the imaginary African Republic of Vietongo, The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix begins when conflict breaks out between rival leaders and the regional ethnic groups they represent. Events recorded in a series of notebooks under the watchful eye of Hortense Lloki show how civil war culminates in a series of outlandish actions perpetrated by the warring parties' private militias—the Anacondas and the Romans from the North who have seized power against Vercingetorix (named after none other than the legendary Gallic warrior who fought against Caesar’s army) and his Little Negro Grandsons in the South who are eager to regain control. Award-winning author Alain Mabanckou is at his satiric best in this novel that catalogues the pain and suffering caused by the ravages of civil war. Translated into English for the first time, this novel provides a gritty slice of life in an active war zone.
Mediating Violence From Africa
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Author : George MacLeod
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2023-10
Mediating Violence From Africa written by George MacLeod 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 2023-10 with History categories.
Mediating Violence from Africa explores how African and non-African Francophone authors, filmmakers, editors, and scholars have packaged, interpreted, and filmed the violent histories of post-Cold War Francophone Africa. This violence, much of which unfolded in front of Western television cameras, included the use of child soldiers facilitated by the Soviet Union's castoff Kalashnikov rifles, the rise of Islamist terrorism in West Africa, and the horrific genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Through close readings of fictionalized child-soldier narratives, cinematic representations of Islamist militants, genocide survivor testimony, and Western scholarship, George S. MacLeod analyzes the ways Francophone African authors and filmmakers, as well as their editors and scholarly critics, negotiate the aesthetic, political, cultural, and ethical implications of making these traumatic stories visible. MacLeod argues for the need to periodize these productions within a "post-Cold War" framework to emphasize how shifts in post-1989 political discourse are echoed, contested, or subverted by contemporary Francophone authors, filmmakers, and Western scholars. The questions raised in Mediating Violence from Africa are of vital importance today. How the world engages with and responds to stories of recent violence and loss from Africa has profound implications for the affected communities and individuals. More broadly, in an era in which stories and images of violence, from terror attacks to school shootings to police brutality, are disseminated almost instantly and with minimal context, these theoretical questions have implications for debates surrounding the ethics of representing trauma, the politicization of memory, and Africa's place in a global (as opposed to a postcolonial or Euro-African) economic and political landscape.
Congo Inc
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Author : In Koli Jean Bofane
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-08
Congo Inc written by In Koli Jean Bofane and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-08 with Fiction categories.
To the sound of machine gun fire and the smell of burning flesh, award-winning author In Koli Jean Bofane leads readers on a perilous, satirical journey through the civil conflict and political instability that have been the logical outcome of generations of rapacious multinational corporate activity, corrupt governance, widespread civil conflict, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation in Africa. Isookanga, a Congolese Pygmy, grows up in a small village with big dreams of becoming rich. His vision of the world is shaped by his exploits in Raging Trade, an online game where he seizes control of the world's natural resources by any means possible: high-tech weaponry, slavery, and even genocide. Isookanga leaves his sleepy village to make his fortune in the pulsating capital Kinshasa, where he joins forces with street children, warlords, and a Chinese victim of globalization in this blistering novel about capitalism, colonialism, and the world haunted by the ghosts of Bismarck and Leopold II. Told with just enough levity to make it truly heartbreaking, Congo Inc. is a searing tale about ecological, political, and economic failure.
Les Petits Fils N Gres De Vercing Torix
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Author : Alain Mabanckou
language : fr
Publisher: Les Editions du Rocher/Serpent à Plumes
Release Date : 2002
Les Petits Fils N Gres De Vercing Torix written by Alain Mabanckou and has been published by Les Editions du Rocher/Serpent à Plumes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Africa categories.
La guerre civile, les coups d'Etat, les déchirures et les persécutions de l'après-décolonisation à travers le regard d'une femme, Hortense Iloki. A mots couverts, l'auteur évoque le Congo qu'il a quitté, il y a une quinzaine d'années.
Blue White Red
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Author : Alain Mabanckou
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-21
Blue White Red written by Alain Mabanckou and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-21 with Fiction categories.
“Mabanckou dazzles with technical dexterity and emotional depth” in his debut novel, winner of the Grand Prix Littéraire de l’Afrique Noire (Publishers Weekly, starred review). This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki’s footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is deported. Blue White Red is a novel of postcolonial Africa where young people born into poverty dream of making it big in the cities of their former colonial masters. Alain Mabanckou’s searing commentary on the lives of Africans in France is cut with the parody of African villagers who boast of a son in the country of Digol. Praise for Alain Mabanckou and Blue White Red “Mabanckou counts as one of the most successful voices of young African literature.” —Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin “The African Beckett.” —The Economist “Blue White Red stands at the beginning of the author’s remarkable and multifaceted career as a novelist, essayist and poet . . . this debut novel shows much of his style and substance in remarkable ways . . . Dundy’s translation is excellent.” —Africa Book Club “Mabanckou’s provocative novel probes the many facets of the ‘migration adventure.’” —Booklist
In Praise Of Fragments
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Author : Meena Alexander
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
In Praise Of Fragments written by Meena Alexander and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Poetry categories.
In Praise of Fragments is a collection of various and inter-related works, including a sequence of poems written about Venetian Jewish poet Sarra Copia Sulam (1592-1641), lyric essays about Venice, a suite of poems about Hyderabad, where Alexander lived for many years, and a series of brief sketches of memoir about her childhood in Kerala, the subject of her groundbreaking memoir Fault Lines. The writings are accompanied by a series of sumi ink drawings by Alexander and an afterword by Leah Suffrant.
In The Year Of The Rabbit
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Author : Terrance A. Harkin
language : en
Publisher: Silkworm Books
Release Date : 2022-03-22
In The Year Of The Rabbit written by Terrance A. Harkin and has been published by Silkworm Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-22 with Fiction categories.
The Death Of Comrade President
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Author : Alain Mabanckou
language : en
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Release Date : 2020-03-12
The Death Of Comrade President written by Alain Mabanckou and has been published by Serpent's Tail this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-12 with Fiction categories.
In Pointe-Noire, in the small neighbourhood of Voungou, on the family plot where young Michel lives with Maman Pauline and Papa Roger, life goes on. But Michel's everyday cares - lost grocery money, the whims of his parents' moods, their neighbours' squabbling, his endless daydreaming - are soon swept away by the wind of history. In March 1977, just before the arrival of the short rainy season, Comrade President Marien Ngouabi is brutally murdered in Brazzaville, and not even naïve Michel can remain untouched. Starting as a tender, wry portrait of an ordinary Congolese family, Alain Mabanckou quickly expands the scope of his story into a powerful examination of colonialism, decolonization and dead ends of the African continent. At a stroke Michel learns the realities of life - and how much must change for everything to stay the same.
The Tears Of The Black Man
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Author : Alain Mabanckou
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-11
The Tears Of The Black Man written by Alain Mabanckou and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
In The Tears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today. Mabanckou confronts the long and entangled history of Africa, France, and the United States as it has been shaped by slavery, colonialism, and their legacy today. Without ignoring the injustices and prejudice still facing blacks, he distances himself from resentment and victimhood, arguing that focusing too intensely on the crimes of the past is limiting. Instead, it is time to ask: Now what? Embracing the challenges faced by ethnic minority communities today, The Tears of the Black Man looks to the future, choosing to believe that the history of Africa has yet to be written and seeking a path toward affirmation and reconciliation.
The Lights Of Pointe Noire
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Author : Alain Mabanckou
language : en
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Release Date : 2015-05-14
The Lights Of Pointe Noire written by Alain Mabanckou and has been published by Serpent's Tail this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later. When at last he comes home to Pointe-Noire, a bustling port town on Congo's south-eastern coast, he finds a country that in some ways has changed beyond recognition: the cinema where, as a child, Mabanckou gorged on glamorous American culture has become a Pentecostal temple, and his secondary school has been re-named in honour of a previously despised colonial ruler. But many things remain unchanged, not least the swirling mythology of Congolese culture which still informs everyday life in Pointe-Noire. Mabanckou though, now a decorated French-Congolese writer and esteemed professor at UCLA, finds he can only look on as an outsider at the place where he grew up. As he delves into his childhood, into the life of his departed mother and into the strange mix of belonging and absence that informs his return to Congo, Mabanckou slowly builds a stirring exploration of the way home never leaves us, however long ago we left home.