Research Catalog

Title

The road less traveled : reflections on the literatures of the Horn of Africa / edited by Ali Jimale Ahmed and Taddesse Adera.

Publication

Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Ahmed, Ali Jimale.
• Adera, Taddesse.

Description

xii, 464 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Oral tradition > Horn of Africa
• Horn of Africa > In literature
• Somali literature > History and criticism
• Djiboutian literature > History and criticism
• Eritrean literature > History and criticism
• African literature > 20th century > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Djibouti connections / Suzanne Lilius -- Solipsism of a tattooed memory : the impossible soliloquy in William J.F. Syad's Les naufragés du destin / Garane Garane -- Reflections on the literatures of the Horn of Africa : the case of Somali literature / Ali Moussa Iye -- Asmara connections / Charles Cantalupo -- Reesom Haile, getamay / Charles Cantalupo -- We have our voice : the postmodern articulation of the collective obasajong / Gilbert Doho -- An author in search of a character : commentary on Is he mad? / Beyene Haile -- A brief glance at the torturous development of written Oromo litearture / Mohammed Hassen -- Woman is a strong beast : power and betrayal in Somali and Orma women's tales / Hilarie Kelly -- The moral imperative in revolution-making : a critical reading of Bereket Habte Selassie's Riding the whirlwind / Yonas Admassu -- "The law then was not this law" : past and present in extemporised verse at a southern somali festival / Virginia Luling -- Understanding somalia through the prism of Bantu Jareer literature / Mohamed A. Eno -- Reflections of the Somali situation in the novel Waddadii walbahaarka (The road of grief) by Xusseen Sheekh Biixi / Martin Orwin -- Self and identity in the blood in The sun trilogy / Guillaume Cingal -- Meditations on a poem : weaving literature on the loom of authenticity / Rima Berns-McGown -- Nationalism and the rise of the Sudanese novel / Eiman El-Nour -- History, politics, and identity in Francis Deng's novels / Richard A. Lobban, Jr -- Race, memory, religion, and politics in Francis Deng's Cry of the owl / Abdelwahab El-Affendi -- Exile, history and migrancy in Jamal Mahjoub's The carrier / Jopi Nyman -- Meditations on Taban lo Liyong's Words that melt a mountain / Felix Mnthali -- Africa's languages : an ancient and "open source" of intelligence / W. Stephen Howard.

Call Number

Sc D 10-1649

ISBN

• 1569022062
• 9781569022061
• 1569022070 (pbk.)
• 9781569022078 (pbk.)

LCCN

2007039178

OCLC

173683546

Title

The road less traveled : reflections on the literatures of the Horn of Africa / edited by Ali Jimale Ahmed and Taddesse Adera.

Imprint

Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2008.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Ahmed, Ali Jimale.

Adera, Taddesse.

Research Call Number

Sc D 10-1649