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No Past, No Present, No Future

By: Yulisa Amadu Maddy

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No Past, No Present, No Future

By: Yulisa Amadu Maddy

In his bold and pioneering novel, No Past, No Present, No Future, Yulisa Amadu Maddy explores the dynamics between three young boys as their lives slip quickly into chaos and tragedy. At a missionary school in colonial West Africa, three students from very different backgrounds forge a friendship in an effort to forget the difficulties they face at home. But when one of the boys betrays the other, a series of disastrous events spiral into out of control. After finally leaving school, their paths cross once again in Europe but prejudice and diverging loyalties put the brotherhood they once had into question. How can they ever dream of a future together when the ghosts of the past are determined to haunt their present?

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1803288922

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Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa

A Study of Contemporary Fiction

By: Yulisa Amadu Maddy,Donnarae MacCann

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A Study of Contemporary Fiction

By: Yulisa Amadu Maddy,Donnarae MacCann

In the spirit of their last collaboration, Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995, Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann once again come together to expose the neo-imperialist overtones of contemporary children's fiction about Africa. Examining the portrayal of African social customs, religious philosophies, and political structures in fiction for young people, Maddy and MacCann reveal the Western biases that often infuse stories by well-known Western authors. In the book's introductory section, Maddy and MacCann offer historical information concerning Western notions of Africa as "primitive," and then present background information about the complexity of feminism in Africa and about the ongoing institutionalization of racism. The main body of the study contains critiques of the novels or short stories of eleven well-known writers, including Isabel Allende and Nancy Farmer--all demonstrating that children's literature continues to mis-represent conditions and social relations in Africa. The study concludes with a look at those short stories of Beverley Naidoo which bring insight and historical accuracy to South African conflicts and emerging solutions. Educators, literature professors, publishers, professors of Diaspora and African studies, and students of the mass media will find Maddy and MacCann’s critique of racism in the representation of Africa to be indispensible to students of multicultural literature.

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Routledge

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1135848696

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Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature 1985-1995

By: Donnarae MacCann,Yulisa Amadu Maddy

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Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature 1985-1995

By: Donnarae MacCann,Yulisa Amadu Maddy

While white racism has global dimensions, it has an unshakeable lease on life in South African political organizations and its educational system. Donnarae MacCann and Yulisa Maddy here provide a thorough and provocative analysis of South African children's literature during the key decade around Nelson Mandela's release from prison. Their research demonstrates that the literature of this period was derived from the same milieu -- intellectual, educational, religious, political, and economic -- that brought white supremacy to South Africa during colonial times. This volume is a signal contribution to the study of children's literature and its relation to racism and social conditions.

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No Past, No Present, No Future

By: Yulisa Amadu Maddy

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Staging the Amistad

Three Sierra Leonean Plays

By: Charlie Haffner,Yulisa Amadu Maddy,Raymond E. D. de’Souza George

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Staging the Amistad

Three Sierra Leonean Plays

By: Charlie Haffner,Yulisa Amadu Maddy,Raymond E. D. de’Souza George

Staging the Amistad collects in print for the first time plays about the Amistad slave revolt by three of Sierra Leone’s most influential playwrights of the latter decades of the twentieth century: Charlie Haffner, Yulisa Amadu “Pat” Maddy, and Raymond E. D. de’Souza George. Until the late 1980s, when the first of these plays was performed, the 1839 shipboard slave rebellion and the return of its victors to their homes in what is modern-day Sierra Leone had been an unrecognized chapter in the country’s history. The plays recast the tale of heroism, survival, and resistance to tyranny as a distinctly Sierra Leonean story, emphasizing the agency of its African protagonists. For this reason, Haffner, Maddy, and de’Souza George counterbalance the better-known American representations of the rebellion, which center on American characters and American political and cultural concerns. The first public performances of these plays constituted a watershed moment. Written and staged immediately before and after the start of Sierra Leone’s decade-long conflict, they brought the Amistad rebellion to public consciousness. Furthermore, their turn to a uniquely Sierra Leonean history of heroic resistance to tyranny highlights the persistent faith in nation-state nationalism and the dreams of decolonization.

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Ohio University Press

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0821446681

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Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa

A Study of Contemporary Fiction

By: Yulisa Amadu Maddy,Donnarae MacCann

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A Study of Contemporary Fiction

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Staging the Amistad

Three Sierra Leonean Plays

By: Charlie Haffner,Yulisa Amadu Maddy,Raymond E. D. de’Souza George

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Three Sierra Leonean Plays

By: Charlie Haffner,Yulisa Amadu Maddy,Raymond E. D. de’Souza George

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Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature 1985-1995

By: Donnarae MacCann,Yulisa Amadu Maddy

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Book's by Yulisa Amadu Maddy

No Past, No Present, No Future

No Past, No Present, No Future

Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa

Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa

Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature 1985-1995

Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature 1985-1995

No Past, No Present, No Future

No Past, No Present, No Future

Staging the Amistad

Staging the Amistad

Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa

Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa

Staging the Amistad

Staging the Amistad

Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature 1985-1995

Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature 1985-1995

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