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A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the
stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to
Prince Philip. Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental
Gods introduces us to a new pantheon: of man-gods, deified
politicians and imperialists, militants, mystics and explorers.
From the conquistadors setting foot in the New World to Haile
Selassie of Ethiopia, elevated by a National Geographic article
from emperor to messiah for the Rastafari faith, to the unlikely
officers hailed as gods during the British Raj, this endlessly
curious and revelatory account chronicles an impulse towards
deification that persists even in a secular age, as show of
defiance or assertion of power. In her bravura final part, Subin
traces the colonial desire for divinity through to the creation of
'race' and the white power movement today, and argues that it is
time we rid ourselves of the white gods among us.
Laziness in the Fertile Valley is Albert Cossery's biting social
satire about a father, his three sons, and their uncle - slackers
one and all. One brother has been sleeping for almost seven years,
waking only to use the bathroom and eat a meal. Another savagely
defends the household from women. Serag, the youngest, is the only
member of the family interested in getting a job. But even he - try
as he might - has a hard time resisting the call of laziness.
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The Hospital (Paperback)
Ahmed Bouanani; Translated by Lara Vergnaud; Introduction by Anna Della Subin
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R353
Discovery Miles 3 530
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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"When I walked through the large iron gate of the hospital, I must
have still been alive..." So begins Ahmed Bouanani's arresting,
hallucinatory 1989 novel The Hospital, appearing for the first time
in English translation. Based on Bouanani's own experiences as a
tuberculosis patient, the hospital begins to feel increasingly like
a prison or a strange nightmare: the living resemble the dead;
bureaucratic angels of death descend to direct traffic, claiming
the lives of a motley cast of inmates one by one; childhood
memories and fantasies of resurrection flash in and out of the
narrator's consciousness as the hospital transforms before his eyes
into an eerie, metaphorical space. Somewhere along the way, the
hospital's iron gate disappears. Like Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind
Owl, the works of Franz Kafka-or perhaps like Mann's The Magic
Mountain thrown into a meat-grinder-The Hospital is a nosedive into
the realms of the imagination, in which a journey to nowhere in
particular leads to the most shocking places.
A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the
stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to
Prince Philip Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental
Gods introduces us to a new pantheon: of man-gods, deified
politicians and imperialists, militants, mystics and explorers.
From the conquistadors setting foot in the New World to Haile
Selassie of Ethiopia, elevated by a National Geographic article
from emperor to messiah for the Rastafari faith, to the unlikely
officers hailed as gods during the British Raj, this endlessly
curious and revelatory account chronicles an impulse towards
deification that persists even in a secular age, as show of
defiance or assertion of power. In her bravura final part, Subin
traces the colonial desire for divinity through to the creation of
'race' and the white power movement today, and argues that it is
time we rid ourselves of the white gods among us.
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