Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing (平装)
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品牌: Rob Spillman
基本信息出版社:Penguin (Non-Classics) (2009年4月1日)平装:368页正文语种:英语ISBN:0143114735条形码:9780143114734产品尺寸及重量:21.3 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm ; 273 gASIN:0143114735
商品描述内容简介A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature
Coming at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance,Gods and Soldierscaptures the vitality and urgency of African writing today. With stories from northern Arabic-speaking to southern Zulu-speaking writers, this collection conveys thirty different ways of approaching what it means to be African. Whether about life in the new urban melting pots of Cape Town and Luanda, or amid the battlefield chaos of Zimbabwe and Somalia, or set in the imaginary surreal landscapes born out of the oral storytelling tradition, these stories represent a striking cross section of extraordinary writing. Including works by J. M. Coetzee, Chimamanda Adichie, Nuruddin Farah, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Chinua Achebe, and edited by Rob Spillman ofTin Housemagazine,Gods and Soldiersfeatures many pieces never before published, making it a vibrant and essential glimpse of Africa as it enters the twenty-first century.专业书评Spillman, editor and cofounder of lit journalTin House, brings together a diaspora full of urgency and possibility, featuring recent fiction and nonfiction (mostly fiction) from 30 African authors. First up is Chinua Achebe, author of the groundbreakingThings Fall Apart, looking at North African writers often excluded from the canon, reminding readers that Africa is far from homogeneous (entries come translated from Arabic, Zulu, French and other languages). Each piece finds a human story to illuminate the continent's history of plight and promise, turning up a range of voices: Helon Habila's breathtaking tale of a political prisoner forced to write poems for the prison superintendent's girlfriend; a scene from Ngugi wa Thong'o's novelWizard of the Crowdepicting an Orwellian celebration for an unnamed ruler; Patrice Nganang's essay The Senghor Complex examining the influence of poet Léopold Senghor, Senegal's first president ([for] writers of my generation, he's everyone's grandfather). This collection sheds light on a multifarious continent too often thought of in one-size-fits-all terms.(May)
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