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Dealing with Evils

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Description for Dealing with Evils Paperback. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Dimension: 149 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
In a collection of sixteen essays, Gagiano addresses over twenty texts from various African regions and periods. The works discussed here range from transcriptions of ancient (Khoikhoi / San) folktales to some of the classic texts of the African English literary canon and include recent writing about urgent contemporary social and gender issues. As the title indicates, Annie Gagiano's focus is on the way these texts engage with the forces that damage and threaten life and quality of life in various African contexts. She pays tribute -- by means of carefully argued analyses -- to the authors' political courage and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Stuttgart, Germany
ISBN
9783898218672
SKU
V9783898218672
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About Annie Gagiano
Annie Gagiano has taught literature in the English Department of the University of Stellenbosch since 1970, where she is at present a professor emeritus and research associate. Her teaching has focused particularly on African and postcolonial literature, Shakespeare and poetry. Her numerous articles have appeared in academic journals and in edited collections of essays in South Africa, Europe, Asia, and ... Read more

Reviews for Dealing with Evils
the different essays are always informative, perceptive and full of the humility that insists that a critic should read a text on the terms of the writer of it, and not with a fully scripted already written agenda.
Research in African Literatures 40.4 (Winter 2009) a valuable collection of essays not only because it confronts the social and political ... Read more

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