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The short story is dead, long live the short story!
- Title
- The short story is dead, long live the short story! Vol. 4 / edited by Thabo Jijana.
- Publication
- Yeoville [Johannesburg] : Black Letter Media, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Jijana, Thabo.
- Description
- 137 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- A short story anthology comprising of 11 stories by African writers longlisted in the 2018 Black Letter Media annual short story competition. Using religion as a theme and jumping off point, the stories both celebrate and are critical of organized religion in today's Africa. Nebila Abdulmelik (Ethiopia), Olubunmi Familoni (Nigeria), Christine Coates (South Africa), Ope Adedeji (Nigeria), Troy Onyango (Kenya), Carey Baraka (Kenya), Damon Yeld (South Africa), Tariro Ndoro (Zimbabwe), Themesha Khan (South Africa), Patrick Ochieng (Kenya), Okechi Okeke (Nigeria).
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Short stories.
- Contents
- Preface / Thabo Jijana -- oma / Nebila Abdulmelik -- bloodofjesus / Olubunmi Familoni -- the lightness of lies / Christine Coates -- omo omo omo / Ope Adedeji -- peregrination / Tony Onyango -- the elizabethans we lost / Carey Baraka -- emperor tiberius and the tokoloshe / Damon Yeld -- absaloming / Tariro Ndoro -- un/beloved / Themesha Khan -- pastor-malaya / P Ochieng Ochieng -- the joy of meeting a helper / Okechi Okeke.
- Call Number
- Sc D 23-803
- ISBN
- 9780987016263
- 0987016261
- LCCN
- 2020380467
- OCLC
- 1128177763
- Title
- The short story is dead, long live the short story! Vol. 4 / edited by Thabo Jijana.
- Publisher
- Yeoville [Johannesburg] : Black Letter Media, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Jijana, Thabo.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 23-803