Distant View Of A Minaret And Other Stories
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Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories
Author | : Alifa Rifaat |
Publsiher | : Waveland Press |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2014-01-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781478615491 |
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“More convincingly than any other woman writing in Arabic today, Alifa Rifaat lifts the veil on what it means to be a woman living within a traditional Muslim society.” So states the translator’s foreword to this collection of the Egyptian author’s best short stories. Rifaat (1930–1996) did not go to university, spoke only Arabic, and seldom traveled abroad. This virtual immunity from Western influence lends a special authenticity to her direct yet sincere accounts of death, sexual fulfillment, the lives of women in purdah, and the frustrations of everyday life in a male-dominated Islamic environment. Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies, the collection admits the reader into a hidden private world, regulated by the call of the mosque, but often full of profound anguish and personal isolation. Badriyya’s despairing anger at her deceitful husband, for example, or the haunting melancholy of “At the Time of the Jasmine,” are treated with a sensitivity to the discipline and order of Islam.
Distant View of a Minaret
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Author | : Alīfah Rifʻat |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Arabic literature |
ISBN | : OCLC:13543672 |
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Distant View of a Minaret
Author | : Alīfah Rifʻat |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Arab countries |
ISBN | : 1478611286 |
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The Poor Christ of Bomba
Author | : Mongo Beti |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2024-02-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781804543436 |
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Award-winning author Mongo Beti presents The Poor Christ of Bomba, a cutting satirical critique on the role of Catholic missionaries and French colonialism in 1930s Cameroon. A revolutionary novel in its time. In the small village of Bomba, a French missionary priest is instructed to build a parish for its residents. Father Drumont has one important task; to save the village from heresy by preparing its girls for Christian marriage. A servant in Father Drumont's house, a young boy named Denis is reliant on the priest's generosity after the death of his mother. In the eyes of the Catholic church, Denis is the perfect example of the African heathen saved by Christianity – but the reality of what happens behind closed doors in much more sinister. 'One of the foremost African writers of the independence generation.' Guardian
So Long a Letter
Author | : Mariama Bâ |
Publsiher | : Waveland Press |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2012-05-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781478611233 |
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Written by award-winning African novelist Mariama Bâ and translated from the original French, So Long a Letter has been recognized as one of Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century. The brief narrative, written as an extended letter, is a sequence of reminiscences —some wistful, some bitter—recounted by recently widowed Senegalese schoolteacher Ramatoulaye Fall. Addressed to a lifelong friend, Aissatou, it is a record of Ramatoulaye’s emotional struggle for survival after her husband betrayed their marriage by taking a second wife. This semi-autobiographical account is a perceptive testimony to the plight of educated and articulate Muslim women. Angered by the traditions that allow polygyny, they inhabit a social milieu dominated by attitudes and values that deny them status equal to men. Ramatoulaye hopes for a world where the best of old customs and new freedom can be combined. Considered a classic of contemporary African women’s literature, So Long a Letter is a must-read for anyone interested in African literature and the passage from colonialism to modernism in a Muslim country. Winner of the prestigious Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.
Juletane
Author | : Myriam Warner-Vieyra |
Publsiher | : Waveland Press |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781478622666 |
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In this powerful and moving novel, Myriam Warner-Vieyra sensitively portrays the complexities of cross-cultural relationships and, in particular, the female predicament. When Helene, a self-reliant career woman, is packing her belongings for a move and imminent marriage for which she is reluctant, she unearths a faded old book. It is the diary of young Juletane, a confused, sheltered West Indian woman struggling to find herself. Written over three weeks, it records her short life: childhood in France, marriage to an African student, and an eager return with him to Africa, the land of her ancestors. It is Juletane’s diary that brings her and Helene together. Juletane does not fit into her husband’s traditional African family, especially the Muslim cultural demands of polygamy. Full of gentle ironies, Juletane is a story about alienation, madness, shattered dreams: the disillusioned West Indian outsider’s disenchantment with Africa. Myriam Warner-Vieyra looks at women’s lives, at the paths they have taken, at the possibilities open to women in the Caribbean, in Africa, in life. She forces readers, through the double narrative of Juletane and Helene, to reexamine easy assumptions, to look again at safe generalizations. Includes valuable Introduction 2014 by the translator.
Modern Arabic Literature
Author | : Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521331978 |
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This volume provides an authoritative survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Author | : Khaled Hosseini |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2008-09-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780747585893 |
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A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love