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The Book of Khartoum

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Bog
  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 208 sider

Beskrivelse

Khartoum, according to one theory, takes its name from the Beja word hartooma, meaning 'meeting place'. Geographically, culturally and historically, the Sudanese capital is certainly that: a meeting place of the Blue and White Niles, a confluence of Arabic and African histories, and a destination point for countless refugees displaced by Sudan's long, troubled history of forced migration. In the pages of this book - the first major anthology of Sudanese stories to be translated into English - the city also stands as a meeting place for ideas: where the promise and glamour of the big city meets its tough social realities; where traces of a colonial past are still visible in day-to-day life; where the dreams of a young boy, playing in his father's shop, act out a future that may one day be his. Diverse literary styles also come together here: the political satire of Ahmed al-Malik; the surrealist poetics of Bushra al-Fadil; the social realism of the first postcolonial authors; and the lyrical abstraction of the new 'Iksir' generation. As with any great city, it is from these complex tensions that the best stories begin.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal208
  • Udgivelsesdato28-04-2016
  • ISBN139781905583720
  • Forlag Comma Press
  • FormatPaperback
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt122 g
  • Dybde1 cm
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    10 cm
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    12,9 cm
    19,8 cm

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