Limbo

Limbo
Author: Dan Fox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: ART
ISBN: 9781910695807

An irreverent and erudite essay on being stuck and its opposites, from the author of Pretentiousness: Why it Matters.

Limbo

Limbo
Author: Bernard Wolfe
Publisher: Gateway
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2016-12-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473212480

In the aftermath of an atomic war, a new international movement of pacifism has arisen. Multitudes of young men have chosen to curb their aggressive instincts through voluntary amputation - disarmament in its most literal sense. Those who have undergone this procedure are highly esteemed in the new society. But they have a problem - their prosthetics require a rare metal to function, and international tensions are rising over which countries get the right to mine it . . .

European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa

European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Albert S. Gérard
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 678
Release: 1986
Genre: Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN: 9789630538329

The first major comparative study of African writing in western languages, European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Albert S. Gérard, falls into four wide-ranging sections: an overview of early contacts and colonial developments "Under Western Eyes"; chapters on "Black Consciousness" manifest in the debates over Panafricanism and Negritude; a group of essays on mental decolonization expressed in "Black Power" texts at the time of independence struggles; and finally "Comparative Vistas," sketching directions that future comparative study might explore. An introductory e.

Pretentiousness

Pretentiousness
Author: Dan Fox
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2016-04-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 156689428X

Pretentiousness is the engine oil of culture; the essential lubricant in the development of all arts, high, low, or middle.

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
Author: Eugene Benson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2597
Release: 2004-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134468474

Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.