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Epimodernism

Six Memos for Literature Today

By: Emmanuel Bouju

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Epimodernism

Six Memos for Literature Today

By: Emmanuel Bouju

Postmodernism has had its day. Are we now in the era of epimodernism? Reinterpreting the six “memos” that Italo Calvino suggested more than thirty years ago for “the new Millennium”, in this acclaimed book Emmanuel Bouju identifies six new values for literature in the twenty-first century: Superficiality, Secrecy, Energy, Acceleration, Credit, and Follow Through. Based on the principal meanings of the Ancient Greek prefix epi – surface, contact, origin, extension, duration, authority, and finality – these values represent six different ways of relating to the legacy of modernist utopias, reorienting postmodern critique and rebooting, with all due irony, its various forms of engagement and empowerment. Equal parts cultural criticism and literary creation, this highly original essay both enacts and explores the epimodern turn in contemporary European literature. Rigorous and humorous, provocative and playful, Epimodernism helps us to understand what literature can describe, imagine, and invent in our challenging times.

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222

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Springer Nature

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3031099249

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9783031099243

Dictionary of African Biography

By: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong,Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Dictionary of African Biography

By: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong,Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).

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3382

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0195382072

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9780195382075

TiYa

By: Emmanuel Mabondo

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TiYa

By: Emmanuel Mabondo

Comme un exutoire, ce mémoire des aurores représente la renaissance de l’auteur. Ce dernier y illustre tous les obstacles majeurs qui ont jonché son existence jusqu’à présent, en démontrant les moyens employés pour les surmonter. À l’exemple d’un feu polysémique, l’ouvrage nous montre les moments d’épreuves qui ont façonné la personnalité d’Emmanuel Mabondo, l’aidant ainsi à sortir de sa zone de confort pour accomplir ses objectifs. Dans la quête d’une flamme rédemptrice, il effectue un parallèle entre son histoire et celle de son pays, plus précisément celle de son peuple. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR !--StartFragment--Participer au développement de son continent et de son pays, telle est l’ambition que porte Emmanuel Mabondo quand il prend la plume. Il croit fermement que l’échange des idées, suivi d’actions concrètes, est primordial pour l’émancipation des siens. C’est d’ailleurs dans cet ordre d'idées qu’il écrit TiYa, son premier ouvrage.!--EndFragment--

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Le Lys Bleu Éditions

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9791037762986

Little Boys Come from the Stars

By: Emmanuel Dongala

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Little Boys Come from the Stars

By: Emmanuel Dongala

The peculiar and moving story of a Congolese boy's coming-of-age amid the political strife of postcolonial Congo His nickname is Matapari, which means "trouble." He is an African child of the '90s--brilliant, mischievous, postcolonial, postmodern-caught in the crossfire of a chaotically liberated African country. Matapari grows up in a world of talking drums, the Internet, and satellite TV, a world of dictators who remake themselves as democrats overnight. His uncle is a stooge for the dictator; his father is a scholarly recluse obsessed with proving that blacks played key roles in Western history. Matapari is a young man in the middle--but the shrewdness and wit with which he tells his often riotously funny story set him apart from his relatives and countrymen. Emmanuel Dongala uses the ingenious viewpoint of a child to show up the telltale world of adults--and to show how one preserves one's independence in a corrupt and violent society.

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251

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374708053

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9780374708054

Kisanga

By: Emmanuel Grand

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Kisanga

By: Emmanuel Grand

Joli coup pour Carmin. Le fleuron minier français signe un partenariat historique avec la Chine afin d’exploiter un exceptionnel gisement de cuivre au Congo. Annoncé en grande pompe par les gouvernements respectifs, soutenu par les banquiers d’affaires, le projet Kisanga doit être inauguré dans trois mois. Un délai bien trop court pour Olivier Martel, l’ingénieur dépêché sur place pour le piloter, mais en principe suffisant pour les barbouzes chargées de retrouver un dossier secret susceptible de faire capoter toute l’opération s’il tombait entre de mauvaises mains. Celles de Raphaël Da Costa par exemple, un journaliste qui s’est déjà frotté par le passé à Carmin et aux zones grises du pouvoir. Trois mois, le temps d’une course-poursuite haletante au coeur de la savane katangaise et sur les pistes brûlantes du Kivu, pour découvrir ce que dissimule le nom si prometteur de Kisanga. Du suspense, du rythme et un réalisme redoutable irriguent ce thriller implacable sur les nouveaux jeux d’influence en Afrique.

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402

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Liana Levi

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9791034900039

Johnny Mad Dog

A Novel

By: Emmanuel Dongala

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Johnny Mad Dog

A Novel

By: Emmanuel Dongala

Life During Wartime, As Seen Through the Eyes of Two Congolese Teenagers Set amid the chaos of West Africa's civil wars, Emmanuel Dongala's striking novel tells the story of two teenagers growing up while rival ethnic groups fight for control of their country. At age sixteen, Johnny is a member of the Death Dealers, a rebel faction bent on seizing power. Even as he is drawn into the rebels' program of terror, Johnny Mad Dog, as he calls himself, retains his youthful exuberance--searching for girls, good times, and adventure. Sixteen-year-old Laokolé, for her part, dreams of finishing high school and becoming an engineer, but as rogue militias prepare to sack the city, she is forced to leave home with her mother and brother--and then finds herself alone and running from the likes of Johnny. Acclaimed in France, Johnny Mad Dog is a coming-of-age story like no other; Dongala's masterful use of dual narrators makes the novel an unusually vivid and affecting tale of the struggle to survive--and to retain one's humanity--in terrifying times.

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374708037

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9780374708030

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Epimodernism

Epimodernism

Dictionary of African Biography

Dictionary of African Biography

TiYa

TiYa

Little Boys Come from the Stars

Little Boys Come from the Stars

Kisanga

Kisanga

Johnny Mad Dog

Johnny Mad Dog

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