collection literature translated orphee-dafric

books:

Orphee-dafric: Roman (Collection Encres noires)
Werewere Liking

L'Harmattan, 1981

It Shall Be of Jasper and Coral: And, Love-Across-A-Hundred-Lives : Two Novels (CARAF Books: Caribbean & ...
Werewere Liking, Marjolijn De Jager

University of Virginia Press, 2000

The West African writer, painter, playwright, and director Werewere Liking is considered one of the best literary interpreters of the posHColonial condition in Africa. Her first work to be translated into English, these two novels spare nothing in their satirical portraits of the patriarchal view of African society as they experiment radically with the novel form. At once dramatic, lyrical, satirical, and epistolary, "It Shall Be of Jasper ...

Elle sera de jaspe et de corail (Collection Encres noires)
Werewere Liking

Editions L'Harmattan, 1983

The Amputated Memory: A Song-Novel (Women Writing Africa)
Werewere Liking

The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2007

A modern-day Things Fall Apart , The Amputated Memory explores the ways in which an African woman's memory preserves, and strategically forgets, moments in her tumultuous past as well as the cultural past of her country, in the hopes of making a healthier future possible. Pinned between the political ambitions of her philandering father, the colonial and global influences of encroaching and exploitative governments, and the traditions of ...