Literature and Music from Equatorial Guinea After the Independence
Title | Literature and Music from Equatorial Guinea After the Independence PDF eBook |
Author | Dosinda García-Alvite |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2003 |
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An Introduction to the Literature of Equatorial Guinea
Title | An Introduction to the Literature of Equatorial Guinea PDF eBook |
Author | Marvin Lewis |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0826265847 |
"Examines how postcolonial literature depicts the clash of traditional and European cultures, reflects the impact of the Macias reafricanization process, and addresses the themes of individual and national identity, Hispanic heritage, and the Equatoguinean diaspora"--Provided by publisher.
Equatorial Guinean Literature in its National and Transnational Contexts
Title | Equatorial Guinean Literature in its National and Transnational Contexts PDF eBook |
Author | Marvin A. Lewis |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2017-06-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0826273874 |
This is the first book to interpret the African dimension of contemporary Hispanic literature. Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony, is the only African country in which Spanish is an official language and which has a tradition of literature in Spanish. This is a study of the literature produced by the nation’s writers from 2007 to 2013. Since its independence in 1968, Equatorial Guinea has been ruled by dictators under whom ethnic differences have been exacerbated, poverty and violence have increased, and critical voices have been silenced. The result has been an exodus of intellectuals—including writers who express their national and exile experiences in their poems, plays, short stories, and novels. The writers discussed include Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, and Guillermina Mekuy, among others.
Literature and Music from Equatorial Guinea After the Independence
Title | Literature and Music from Equatorial Guinea After the Independence PDF eBook |
Author | Dosinda García-Alvite |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2003 |
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Shadows of Your Black Memory
Title | Shadows of Your Black Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Donato Ndongo |
Publisher | Swan Isle Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-09-09 |
Genre | Africans |
ISBN | 9780997228700 |
Set during the last years of Spanish rule in Equatorial Guinea, Shadows of Your Black Memory presents the voice of a young African man reflecting on his childhood. Through the idealistic eyes of the nameless protagonist, Donato Ndongo portrays the cultural conflicts between Africa and Spain, ancestral worship competing with Catholicism, and tradition giving way to modernity. The backdrop of a nation moving toward a troubled independence parallels the young man's internal struggle to define his own identity. Now in paperback, Shadows of Your Black Memory masterfully exposes the cultural fissures of Ndongo's native land. "Spanish Guinea" is a heated, sensual landscape with exotic animals and trees, ancient rituals, ghosts, saints, and sinners. We come to know the narrator's extended family, the people of his village, merchants, sorcerers, and Catholic priests; we see them critically at times, even humorously, yet always with compassion and a magical dignity. Michael Ugarte's sensitive translation captures the spirit of the original Spanish prose and makes Ndongo's powerful, gripping tale available to English-speaking readers for the first time.
Spain's African Colonial Legacies
Title | Spain's African Colonial Legacies PDF eBook |
Author | Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré |
Publisher | Social, Economic and Political |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789004504066 |
"The African cities of Bata and Al-Hoceima were created during the Spanish colonial rule of Equatorial Guinea and Morocco. This book constructs their local history to analyse how Spanish colonialism worked, what its legacies were and the imprints it left on their national histories. The work explains the revision of collective memories of the past in the present as a form of decolonisation that seeks to build different foundations for the future in a transnational and glocal framework. The result is an exciting puzzle of individual and collective memories in which Africans contest their colonial cultural heritage and shape their identities at a global level"--
World Music: Africa, Europe and the Middle East
Title | World Music: Africa, Europe and the Middle East PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Broughton |
Publisher | Rough Guides |
Pages | 792 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781858286358 |
First published in 1994 in one volume. An A-Z of the music, musicians and discs. 2006 edition available as an e-book.