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THE BURDEN OF MEMORY, THE MUSE OF FORGIVENESS.
de Soyinka, Wole
- Usado
- First
- Estado
- Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
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Sobre este artículo
New York & Oxford:: Oxford University Press,, 1999.. First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A powerful collection of essays by this Nobel Laureate writer, originally delivered at Harvard University in 1997 as the inaugural lectures at the W. E. B. DuBois Institute Macmillan series. " In the face of centuries-long devastation wrought on the African continent and her diaspora by slavery, colonialism, apartheid and racism, what form of recompense could possibly be adequate? .... Soyinka examines the question, illuminating the principle duty and 'near intolerable burden' of memory to bear the record of injustice." Leopold Senghor, Martin Luther King, the genocide in Sudan, the atrocities in Nigeria are just a few of the topics Soyinka touches on. Publisher's material laid in. 192 pp
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 80791
- Título
- THE BURDEN OF MEMORY, THE MUSE OF FORGIVENESS.
- Autor
- Soyinka, Wole
- Formato/Encuadernación
- First edition -
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York & Oxford:
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999.
- Palabras clave
- senghor, nigeria, sudan, atrocities, slave trade, reparations, genocide, arc, uncorrected proof
- Catálogos del vendedor
- African Literature;
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