Forest of A Thousand Daemons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forest of A Thousand Daemons write by D.O. Fagunwa. This book was released on 2013-09-24. Forest of A Thousand Daemons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first novel written in the Yoruba language and one of the first to be written in any African language.
Daemons Are Forever
Daemons Are Forever - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Daemons Are Forever write by David Gordon White. This book was released on 2021-02-01. Daemons Are Forever available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, Dæmons Are Forever is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings—dæmons—and an account of exchanges, among human populations, of the science of spirit beings: dæmonology. Since the time of the Indo-European migrations, and especially following the opening of the Silk Road, a common dæmonological vernacular has been shared among populations ranging from East and South Asia to Northern Europe. In this virtuoso work of historical sleuthing, David Gordon White recovers the trajectories of both the “inner demons” cohabiting the bodies of their human hosts and the “outer dæmons” that those same humans recognized each time they encountered them in their enchanted haunts: sylvan pools, sites of geothermal eruptions, and dark forest groves. Along the way, he invites his readers to reconsider the potential and promise of the historical method in religious studies, suggesting that a “connected histories” approach to Eurasian dæmonology may serve as a model for restoring history to its proper place at the heart of the discipline of the history of religions.
Myth, Literature and the African World
Myth, Literature and the African World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myth, Literature and the African World write by Wole Soyinka. This book was released on 1990-09-13. Myth, Literature and the African World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa.
Pre-Colonial Africa in Colonial African Narratives
Pre-Colonial Africa in Colonial African Narratives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pre-Colonial Africa in Colonial African Narratives write by Donald R. Wehrs. This book was released on 2016-04-08. Pre-Colonial Africa in Colonial African Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his study of the origins of political reflection in twentieth-century African fiction, Donald Wehrs examines a neglected but important body of African texts written in colonial (English and French) and indigenous (Hausa and Yoruba) languages. He explores pioneering narrative representations of pre-colonial African history and society in seven texts: Casely Hayford's Ethiopia Unbound (1911), Alhaji Sir Abubaker Tafawa Balewa's Shaihu Umar (1934), Paul Hazoumé's Doguicimi (1938), D.O. Fagunwa's Forest of a Thousand Daemons (1938), Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954), and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958). Wehrs highlights the role of pre-colonial political economies and articulations of state power on colonial-era considerations of ethical and political issues, and is attentive to the gendered implications of texts and authorial choices. By positioning Things Fall Apart as the culmination of a tradition, rather than as its inaugural work, he also reconfigures how we think of African fiction. His book supplements recent work on the importance of indigenous contexts and discourses in situating colonial-era narratives and will inspire fresh methodological strategies for studying the continent from a multiplicity of perspectives.
The Secret History of Las Vegas
The Secret History of Las Vegas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Secret History of Las Vegas write by Chris Abani. This book was released on 2014-01-07. The Secret History of Las Vegas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A gritty, riveting, and wholly original murder mystery from PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author and 2015 Edgar Awards winner Chris Abani Before he can retire, Las Vegas detective Salazar is determined to solve a recent spate of murders. When he encounters a pair of conjoined twins with a container of blood near their car, he’s sure he has apprehended the killers, and enlists the help of Dr. Sunil Singh, a South African transplant who specializes in the study of psychopaths. As Sunil tries to crack the twins, the implications of his research grow darker. Haunted by his betrayal of loved ones back home during apartheid, he seeks solace in the love of Asia, a prostitute with hopes of escaping that life. But Sunil’s own troubled past is fast on his heels in the form of a would-be assassin. Suspenseful through the last page, The Secret History of Las Vegas is Chris Abani’s most accomplished work to date, with his trademark visionary prose and a striking compassion for the inner lives of outsiders.
