Search Results for East African fiction

...Fawzia Mustafa Set at the turn of the twentieth century, as Germany consolidated control over its East African colony, Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 1994 novel Paradise encompasses the last of the “Arab” caravan trading expeditions from the East African coast deep into the interior of the continent. In doing...

..., provide the rhetorical momentum of the ret­ rospective narration. Naipaul’s sixth work of fiction, The Mimic Men, is a novel of education about a sensitive middle-class Caribbean East Indian and, inescapably, a fictionalized portrait of an artist as a young man. Onto this bildungsroman Naipaul...

... settled in East Africa several centuries ago, and although he considers Africa his home, the native Africans regard him as a foreigner. At the beginning of the novel, Salim moves from East Africa to a newly independent country in Central Africa to run a shop he bought from his friend Nazruddin. Since his...

... East and focuses on the work of Olivia Manning, Muriel Spark, and Ethel Man- nin.The second chapter is concerned with India and features the work of Rumer Godden.The third chapter handles the British imperial presence in Kenya through the work of Elspeth Huxley, and the fourth chapter treats...

... as Metafiction .” Slavic and East European Journal 55 , no. 1 : 58 – 74 . Wanner Adrian . 2015 . “ Writing the Translingual Life: Recent Memoirs and Auto-Fiction by Russian-American and Russian-German Novelists .” L2 Journal 7 , no. 1 : 141 – 51 . Warner Michael . 2002 . “ Publics...

... devotes more assiduous attention to works by authors from traditionally underrepresented populations, including Native Americans, the working class, and African Americans. Lambert defines the scope of his monograph more broadly than its title might suggest: “Because of the Depression’s tremendous inf...

... representations of the former Eastern Bloc, while also contributing to theories of US immigrant writing that bridge American, Slavic, and immigration studies. Works Cited Antoszek Andrzej . 2009 . “ ‘The Higher the Satellite, the Lower the Culture’? African American Studies in East-Central...

.... For example, in Bread Givers (1925) and Hungry Hearts (1920), Anzia Yezierska, from present-day Poland, places her immigrant protagonists in the tenements of New York’s Lower East Side; Abraham Cahan, born in Belarus, and Henry Roth, born in Galicia, similarly situate their characters in early twentieth...

... . Oppel Christina . 2011 . “ (Re)writing Twentieth-Century Slavery: John A. Williams’s Clifford’s Blues as Neo-Slave Narrative .” In From Black to Schwarz: Cultural Crossovers between African America and Germany , edited by Diedrich Maria L. Heinrichs Jürgen , 187 – 212 . East Lansing...

...,” “The Duchess and the Jeweller” is Woolf’s only published piece fully devoted to a Jewish character.6 The story’s protagonist is Oliver Bacon, whose work takes him from the East End in London, the Jewish ghetto, to a shop off Bond Street, where he establishes himself as Britain’s “richest jeweller...

... representations of transnational exchanges, exploring to what extent women migrants achieve agency in the complex world of multicultural transactions. Works Cited Barany Zoltan . 2002 . The East European Gypsies: Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press...

...”—the Febru­ ary, March, and April 1899 issues of Blackwood’s—would have influenced what its first readers made of it. Conrad remarked in a letter to William Blackwood that he thought the subject of his African story very much “of our time” (Letters 2:140); he meant that it dealt with imperialism...

..., the “Chicano Militants,” as a lumpenproletarian organization. Of the novel’s East LA Thirteen, only one is a student, and the others have little use for what they call the “college sellouts” (55).20 The Chicano Militants themselves are a fictional creation synthesizing two distinct (and some- times...

...), Alan Paton’s fictional exploration of South African racial discord. During that time, Mayfield also began writing his own work, from the one-act plays A World Full of Men and The Other Foot , produced in 1952, to longer plays, Fire and 417 , also produced off Broadway, the latter serving...

... thereafter. At war’s end, Samad has one request for Archie: Do me this one, great favor, Jones. If ever you hear anyone, when you are back home . . . if ever you hear anyone speak of the East . . . hold your judgment . If you are told “they are all this” or “they do this” or “their opinions...

.... Certain East Asian and Latin American economies, for ex- ample, can thrive under these conditions while US and European econo- mies decline and sub-Saharan and North African/Middle Eastern systems threaten to collapse altogether.14 The flows of capital change direction and arguably dissolve...

... likely to widen into Armageddons; even the Middle East conflict, without the added heat of superpower ideological rivalry, has receded to the status of just another brutal, local idiocy, in spite of the efforts of zealots to make it something more. Furthermore, the apparent prosperity created...

... nuanced picture of African American participation in the construction of a “socialist modernity in the Third World” (185), not least through examination of Du Bois’s, Graham’s, and Wright’s direct engagement (in print and in person) with intellectuals and leaders like Kwame Nkrumah, Jawaharlal Nehru...

... has successfully made to vanish—even if they crop up again elsewhere— 405Twentieth-Century Literature 60.3 Fall 2014 405 Frances Dickey include modernism and postmodernism, West and East, the local and the global, the national and the transnational. These critical binaries fall...

... was the classification of the population into “White, Coloured, Indian, and African” (2001, 190), with whites constituting the ruling class and the other racial categories denoting various (oppressive and violent) treatments under the law. 2 This reclaiming of modernist form for anticolonial historical fiction...