The Writings Of Camara Laye
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Author | : Adele King |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780803227521 |
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.
Author | : Laye Camara |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Authors, Guinean |
ISBN | : 9780143026785 |
The Dark Child is a vivid and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Kouroussa, French Guinea, a place steeped in mystery. Laye 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. 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.
Author | : Laye Camara |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : African fiction (English) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Adele King |
Publisher | : London ; Ibadan [Nigeria] : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Adele King |
Publisher | : London ; Ibadan [Nigeria] : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Camara Laye |
Publisher | : NYRB Classics |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Helon Habila |
Publisher | : Granta Books |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1847084389 |
Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent, from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya. Helon Habila focuses on younger, newer writers - contrasted with some of their older, more established peers - to give a fascinating picture of a new and more liberated Africa. These writers are characterized by their engagement with the wider world and the opportunities offered by the end of apartheid, the end of civil wars and dictatorships, and the possibilities of free movement. Their work is inspired by travel and exile. They are liberated, global and expansive. As Dambudzo Marechera wrote: 'If you're a writer for a specific nation or specific race, then f*** you." These are the stories of a new Africa, punchy, self-confident and defiant. Includes stories by: Fatou Diome; Aminatta Forna; Manuel Rui; Patrice Nganang; Leila Aboulela; Zo Wicomb; Alaa Al Aswany; Doreen Baingana; E.C. Osondu.
Author | : James Weldon Johnson |
Publisher | : Prabhat Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : |
First published in the year 1912, 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to as the "Ex-Colored Man", living in post-Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author | : Siga Fatima Jagne |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136593977 |
This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes that appear in the author's writings, an overview of the critical response to the author's work, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. These profiles are written by expert contributors and reflect many different perspectives. The volume concludes with a selected general bibliography of the most important critical works on postcolonial African literature.
Author | : Laye Camara |
Publisher | : Vintage Books USA |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |