How to write about Africa: collected works
"Binyavanga Wainaina was a pioneering voice in African literature, an award-winning memoirist and essayist, and a gatherer of literary communities. Before his tragic death in 2019 at the age of forty-seven, he won the Caine Prize for African Writing and was named one of Time's 100 Most Inf...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Binyavanga Wainaina was a pioneering voice in African literature, an award-winning memoirist and essayist, and a gatherer of literary communities. Before his tragic death in 2019 at the age of forty-seven, he won the Caine Prize for African Writing and was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People. His wildly popular essay "How to Write About Africa," an incisive and unapologetic piece that exposed the harmfully racist ways Western media depicts Africa, with implicit bias and subjective clichés, changed the game for African writers and helped set the stage for a new generation of authors, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Yaa Gyasi. When Wainaina published a "lost chapter" of his 2011 memoir as an essay called "I Am a Homosexual, Mum," which imagines coming out to his mother, he became a voice for the queer, African community as well, adding a new layer to how African sexuality is perceived"-- |
| Beschreibung: | 347 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780812989663 |
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| contents | Binguni! A Foreigner in Cape Town Food Slut Cured of England Circumcision Discovering Home Joga of Mathare Valley Hair Travels through Kalenjinland I Hate Githeri Who Invented Truth? Inventing a City She's Breaking Up All things Remaining Equal Hell is in Bed with Mrs Peprah An Affair to Dismember According to Mwangi Ships in High Transit The Continental Dispatch Beyond River Yei The Most Authentic, Blackest, Africanest Soccer Team How to be a Dictator How to be an African The Senegal of the Mind How to Write about Africa. |
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| spelling | Wainaina, Binyavanga 1971-2019 Verfasser (DE-588)133307085 aut How to write about Africa collected works Binyavanga Wainaina ; edited by Achal Prabhala ; [introduction by] Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie One World trade paperback edition New York One World 2024 347 Seiten 24 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Binguni! A Foreigner in Cape Town Food Slut Cured of England Circumcision Discovering Home Joga of Mathare Valley Hair Travels through Kalenjinland I Hate Githeri Who Invented Truth? Inventing a City She's Breaking Up All things Remaining Equal Hell is in Bed with Mrs Peprah An Affair to Dismember According to Mwangi Ships in High Transit The Continental Dispatch Beyond River Yei The Most Authentic, Blackest, Africanest Soccer Team How to be a Dictator How to be an African The Senegal of the Mind How to Write about Africa. "Binyavanga Wainaina was a pioneering voice in African literature, an award-winning memoirist and essayist, and a gatherer of literary communities. Before his tragic death in 2019 at the age of forty-seven, he won the Caine Prize for African Writing and was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People. His wildly popular essay "How to Write About Africa," an incisive and unapologetic piece that exposed the harmfully racist ways Western media depicts Africa, with implicit bias and subjective clichés, changed the game for African writers and helped set the stage for a new generation of authors, from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Yaa Gyasi. When Wainaina published a "lost chapter" of his 2011 memoir as an essay called "I Am a Homosexual, Mum," which imagines coming out to his mother, he became a voice for the queer, African community as well, adding a new layer to how African sexuality is perceived"-- Essays Short stories Africa Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 1977- (DE-588)12975479X win Prabhala, Achal (DE-588)1276285108 edt Äquivalent Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover 978-0-8129-8965-6 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 978-0-8129-8967-0 |
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