The Granta Book of the African Short Story

Habila, Helon

Gathers thirty-five short stories by a variety of African writers, including Olufemi Terry, Binyavanga Wainaina, George Makana Clark, and Alaa Al Aswany

Niet leverbaar

€ 19,95

Uitverkocht

naar verlanglijst

ISBN: 9781847084132
Pagina's: 378
Verschenen: 01-01-2012
NUR: 309

Druk: 1
Uitvoering: Paperback / softback
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: PORTOBELLO BOOKS

Writing Violence and Buddhism in Sri Lanka

This book examines the idea of violence in the context of religion and literature. It addresses the question of freedom, compassion, emancipation, love, ethics responsibility, and peace in the Buddhist nationalist discourse in Sri Lanka, against the backdrop of Shyam Selvadurai’s novel, The Hungry Ghosts.

Women and Water in Global Fiction

Symbols and tropes of liquidity have long been connected to notions of the feminine, and therefore with orthodox constructions of femininity and womanhood. Women and Water in Global Fiction brings together an array of studies of this phenomenon as seen in writing by and about women from around the world.

Matthew Arnold

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888). Arnold's many facets--as poet, educationalist, literary critic, cultural commentator, and religious controversialist--are represented; and the text is fully annotated.

Bloemlezingen

terug meer