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SOYINKA W., Syncretism in sacrificial tragedies, H.Devillard. Jean Rhys, by Elaine Savory. Mahadai Das. Mahadai Das was a Guyanese poet. She was born in Eccles, East Bank Demerara, Guyana, in 1954. She wrote poetry from her early school days at Bishop's High School, Georgetown. She did her first degree at the University of Guyana and received her B.A. in philosophy at Columbia University, New York,[1] and then began a doctoral programme in Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Das became ill and never completed the programme. She was a dancer, actress, teacher and beauty queen, served as a volunteer member of the Guyana National Service around 1976 and was part of the Messenger Group promoting ‘Coolie’ art forms at a time when Indo-Guyanese culture was virtually excluded from national life. She was one of the first Indo-Caribbean women to be published.[2] She has written poetry explicitly relating to ethnic identity, something which contrasts her with other female Indo-Caribbean poets.[3] Another theme in her writing is the working conditions in the Caribbean islands.[1]

Una Marson. Una Maud Victoria Marson (5 May 1905 – 1965) was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer, producing poems, plays and programmes for the BBC. Marson traveled to London in 1932 and worked for the BBC during World War II. Early years (1905-32)[edit] Una Marson was born on 6 February 1905, in Santa Cruz, Jamaica, in the parish of St Elizabeth. She was the youngest of six children of Reverend Soloman Isaac, a Baptist parson, and Ada Marson. Una had a middle-class upbringing and was very close to her father, who influenced some of her fatherlike characters in her later works. As a child before going to school she was an avid reader of available literature, which at the time was mostly English classical literature. At the age of 10, she was enrolled in Hampton High, a girl's boarding school in Jamaica of which her father was on the board of trustees. In 1926, she was appointed assistant editor of the Jamaican political journal Jamaica Critic. London years (1932-36)[edit] Jamaica (1936-38)[edit]

Grammar of Identity, by Stephen Clingman. Abstract The book proceeds from a central contemporary paradox. Never before have we been confronted by such dizzying forms of multiplicity, while at the same time facing still powerful appeals to singularity in matters of location and identity. The question arises as to how we negotiate the relation between the two — whether we can fashion new understandings of self and place in a disparate and uneven world. Here the relevant problem is not whether boundaries exist, but the nature of the boundaries we construct.

In this light the book takes up the idea of a ‘grammar of identity’, considering notions o ... More The book proceeds from a central contemporary paradox. Keywords: Coetzee, Conrad, Gordimer, grammar of identity, nature of the boundary, Caryl Phillips, Rhys, Rushdie, Sebald, transnational fiction Bibliographic Information. The Hug by Thom Gunn. Salman Rushdie - The Official Website. Graham Riach: The Postapartheid Short Story – CRASSH. The politics of rape: Traces of radical feminism in Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee | Barnard | Tydskrif vir letterkunde. The politics of rape: Traces of radical feminism in Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee Abstract Disgrace can be read as a deliberation on rape in all its complexity, articulating and commenting upon many of the positions typical of the radical feminism of the seventies. Keywords: Disgrace, J. SA Got Talent 2012-The Madiba Poem. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about The Thing Around Your Neck on Bookbits radio.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer. She is Igbo . [ 1 ] She has been called "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors [that] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature". [ 2 ] Personal life and education [ edit ] Born in the town of Enugu , she grew up in the university town of Nsukka in southeastern Nigeria, where the University of Nigeria is situated. While she was growing up, her father was a professor of statistics at the university, and her mother was the university registrar. Adichie studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half. In 2003, she completed a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University . Adichie was a Hodder fellow at Princeton University during the 2005-2006 academic year. Writing career [ edit ] Lectures [ edit ] Wole Soyinka. All you want to know about.

Les Fous de Wole Soyinka comme invitation à la révolution permanente | Approches structuralistes du théâtre africain. Tout système de limites circonscrit et oriente la vie de l’individu. Il ne servirait à rien, cependant, de renverser un système oppressif si ce serait dans le seul but de lui substituer un autre qui ne peut qu’être, par définition, répressif, limitatif. Aussi l’essentiel n’est-il pas l’élaboration d’un système de rechange à un ordre différentiel existant, la constitution d’une hiérarchie autre qui se substituerait à l’actuelle, mais principalement d’entretenir l’effervescence de quête et de questionnement, seule capable de libérer l’homme de l’emprise atrophiante des sacerdoces et des systèmes de tout genre qui le garrottent ou se disputent sa conscience. Telle paraît être l’idée-force structurante qui se dégage de la pièce la plus touffue de l’auteur des Gens des marais.

Le référent eternel et universel: On constate que si l’espace du jeu est méticuleusement défini dans cette pièce, le temps représenté ou historique, lui, reste flou. La pièce exige une scène à trois plans. L’attente : Calls for Chinua Achebe Nobel prize 'obscene', says Wole Soyinka | Books. Calls for the late Chinua Achebe to be awarded a posthumous Nobel prize for literature have "gone beyond 'sickening'" and become "obscene and irreverent", Achebe's fellow Nigerian author – and 1986 Nobel laureate – Wole Soyinka has said. In a wide-ranging and passionate interview with SaharaReporters, ahead of Achebe's funeral this week, Soyinka urged Achebe's "cohorts" to cease in their attempts "to confine Chinua's achievement space into a bunker over which hangs an unlit lamp labelled 'Nobel'". As a winner of the prize, Soyinka can nominate future laureates to the Swedish Academy, and said he had been receiving a series of letters begging him to put Achebe forward.

"Let us quit this indecent exercise of fatuous plaints, including raising hopes, even now, with talk of 'posthumous' conferment, when you know damned well that the Nobel committee does not indulge in such tradition. It has gone beyond 'sickening'. It is obscene and irreverent. Suheir Hammad: Poems of war, peace, women, power. L’éternel détournement de Dolorès Haze. C’est une petite victime très particulière que je voudrais évoquer ici. Elle s’appelait Dolorès Haze et venait d’avoir douze ans quand son agresseur l’a prise dans ses filets. Elle vivait avec sa mère ni très chaleureuse ni très protectrice dans une petite ville quelconque des Etats-Unis.

Sa vie bascule quand un élégant étranger s’installe pour quelques mois dans la chambre mise en location par Mme Haze. Celle-ci tombe rapidement amoureuse du beau locataire, tandis que celui-ci se prend de passion pour … Dolorès. Il courtise la mère pour approcher la fille, selon une stratégie bien connue et projette même de tuer Mme Haze après l’avoir épousée. Un coup de pouce du destin lui évite cette peine puisque la mère de Dolorès est renversée par une voiture alors qu’elle s’échappe dans la rue, affolée par la lecture du journal intime du locataire qui révèle sa passion sexuelle pour l’enfant.

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