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Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback): Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
Frantz Fanon; Translated by Richard Philcox 1
R270 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R59 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis 'Fanon is our contemporary ... In clear language, in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage, Fanon showed us the internal theatre of racism' Deborah Levy Frantz Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the black experience in a white world. Drawing on his own life and his work as a psychoanalyst to explore how colonialism's subjects internalize its prejudices, eventually emulating the 'white masks' of their oppressors, it established Fanon as a revolutionary anti-colonialist thinker. 'So hard to put down ... a brilliant, vivid and hurt mind, walking the thin line that separates effective outrage from despair' The New York Times Book Review

The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback): Frantz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
Frantz Fanon; Introduction by Cornel West; Translated by Richard Philcox; Foreword by Homi K. Bhabha; Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre
R465 R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Save R88 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon's landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel WestFirst published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth is a masterfuland timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle, and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives Matter to decolonization. A landmark text for revolutionaries and activists, The Wretched of the Earth is an eternal touchstone for civil rights, anti-colonialism, psychiatric studies, and Black consciousness movements around the world. Alongside Cornel West's introduction, the book features critical essays by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha. This sixtieth anniversary edition of Fanon's most famous text stands proudly alongside such pillars of anti-colonialism and anti-racism as Edward Said's Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

The Gospel According To The New World (Paperback): Maryse Conde The Gospel According To The New World (Paperback)
Maryse Conde; Translated by Richard Philcox
R437 R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Save R81 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: 'A miracle!' Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with grey-green eyes like the sea. But where does he come from? Is he really the child of God? So goes the rumour, and many signs throughout his life will cause this theory to gain ground. From journey to journey and from one community to another, Pascal sets off in search of his origins, trying to understand the meaning of his mission. Will he be able to change the fate of humanity? And what will the New World Gospel reveal? For all its beauty, vivacity, humour, and power, Maryse Conde's latest novel is above all a work of combat. Lucid and full of conviction, Conde attests that solidarity and love remain our most extraordinary and lifesaving forces.

The Gospel According to the New World (Paperback): Maryse Conde The Gospel According to the New World (Paperback)
Maryse Conde; Translated by Richard Philcox
R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"French novelist Conde (Waiting for the Waters to Rise) delivers an ingenious bildungsroman of a messianic figure in contemporary Martinique. Readers will be transfixed." -Publishers Weekly, starred review A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumored to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbean author Maryse Conde follows his journey in search of his origins and mission. One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: "A miracle!" Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with gray-green eyes like the sea. But where does he come from? Is he really the child of God? So goes the rumor, and many signs throughout his life will cause this theory to gain ground. From journey to journey and from one community to another, Pascal sets off in search of his origins, trying to understand the meaning of his mission. Will he be able to change the fate of humanity? And what will the New World Gospel reveal? For all its beauty, vivacity, humor, and power, Maryse Conde's latest novel is above all a work of combat. Lucid and full of conviction, Conde attests that solidarity and love remain our most extraordinary and lifesaving forces.

Of Morsels and Marvels (Hardcover, Edition, Original French Edition: Mets Et Merveill): Richard Philcox Of Morsels and Marvels (Hardcover, Edition, Original French Edition: Mets Et Merveill)
Richard Philcox; Maryse Conde
R649 Discovery Miles 6 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For many, cooking is simply the mechanical act of reproducing standard recipes. To Maryse Conde, however, cooking implies creativity and personal invention, on par with the complexity of writing a story. A cook, she explains, uses spices and flavors the same way an author chooses the music and meaning of words. In Of Morsels and Marvels, Conde takes us on a literary journey around places she has travelled to in India, Indonesia, and South Africa. She highlights the tastes and culinary traditions that are fascinating examples of a living museum. Such places, Conde explains, provide important insights into lesser-known aspects of contemporary life. One anecdote illustrates what becomes of the standard Antillean dishes of fish stew and goat curry by two Antilleans who own a restaurant in Sydney, Australia. Cuisine changes not only according to the individual cook but also adapts to foreign skies under which it is created. The author also recounts personal memories of her lifelong relationship with cooking, such as when Adelia, her family's servant, wrongly blames little Maryse for mixing raisins with fish and using her imagination in the kitchen. Blending travel with gastronomy, this enchanting volume from the winner of the 2018 Alternative Nobel Prize will delight all who marvel at the wonders of the kitchen or seek to taste the world.

The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana (Paperback): Maryse Conde The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana (Paperback)
Maryse Conde; Translated by Richard Philcox
R499 R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Save R73 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By the winner of the 2018 Alternative Nobel prize in literature Born in Guadeloupe, Ivan and Ivana are twins with a bond so strong they become afraid of their feelings for one another. When their mother sends them off to live with their father in Mali they begin to grow apart, until, as young adults in Paris, Ivana's youthful altruism compels her to join the police academy, while Ivan, stunted by early experiences of rejection and exploitation, walks the path of radicalization. The twins, unable to live either with or without each other, become perpetrator and victim in a wave of violent attacks. In The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana, Maryse Conde, winner of the 2018 Alternative Nobel prize in literature, touches upon major contemporary issues such as racism, terrorism, political corruption, economic inequality, globalization, and migration. With her most modern novel to date, this master storyteller offers an impressive picture of a colorful yet turbulent 21st century.

I Tituba Black Witch Of Salem (Paperback): Maryse Conde I Tituba Black Witch Of Salem (Paperback)
Maryse Conde; Translated by Richard Philcox; Afterword by Ann Armstrong Scarboro; Foreword by Angela Y. Davis
R745 Discovery Miles 7 450 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Conde brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls "a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary 'Nanny of the maroons, '" who, schooled in the sorcery and magical ritual of obeah, is arrested for healing members of the family that owns her.

CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French

This book has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agencY.

Journey of a Caribbean Writer (Paperback): Maryse Conde Journey of a Caribbean Writer (Paperback)
Maryse Conde; Translated by Richard Philcox
R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

For nearly four decades, Maryse Conde, best known for her novels Segu and Windward Heights, has been at the forefront of French Caribbean literature. In this collection of essays and lectures, written over many years and in response to the challenges posed by a changing world, she reflects on the ideas and histories that have moved her. From the use of French as her literary language--despite its colonial history--to the agonies of the Middle Passage, at the horrors of African dictatorship, and the politically induced poverty of the Caribbean to migration under globalization, Conde casts her unflinching eye over the world which is her inheritance, her burden, and her future. Even while paying homage to her intellectual and literary influences--including Frantz Fanon, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Aime Cesaire--Conde establishes in these pages the singularity of her vision and the reason for the enormous admiration that her writing has garnered from readers and critics alike.

Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback, Revised): Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback, Revised)
Frantz Fanon; Translated by Richard Philcox 5
R429 R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Save R84 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and "Black Skin, White Masks " represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.
A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, "Black Skin, White Masks" is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today from one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history.

Waiting for the Waters to Rise (Paperback): Maryse Conde Waiting for the Waters to Rise (Paperback)
Maryse Conde; Translated by Richard Philcox
R499 R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Save R73 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Babakar is a doctor living alone, with only the memories of his childhood in Mali. In his dreams, he receives visits from his blue-eyed mother and his ex-lover Azelia, both now gone, as are the hopes and aspirations he's carried with him since his arrival in Guadeloupe. Until, one day, the child Anais comes into his life, forcing him to abandon his solitude. Anais's Haitian mother died in childbirth, leaving her daughter destitute--now Babakar is all she has, and he wants to offer this little girl a future. Together they fly to Haiti, a beautiful, mysterious island plagued by violence, government corruption, and rebellion. Once there, Babakar and his two friends, the Haitian Movar and the Palestinian Fouad, three different identities looking for a more compassionate world, begin a desperate search for Anais's family.

The Wonderous And Tragic Life Of Ivan And Ivana (Paperback): Maryse Conde The Wonderous And Tragic Life Of Ivan And Ivana (Paperback)
Maryse Conde; Translated by Richard Philcox 1
R409 R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Save R74 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Ivan and Ivana are twins with a bond so strong they become afraid of their feelings. As young adults in Paris, Ivana joins the police while Ivan walks the path of radicalisation. Unable to live with or without each other, become perpetrator and victim in a wave of violent attacks. With her most impressive novel to date, this master storyteller offers an impressive picture of a colourful yet turbulent 21st century.

Victoire - My Mother's Mother (Paperback): Maryse Conde Victoire - My Mother's Mother (Paperback)
Maryse Conde; Translated by Richard Philcox
R402 R352 Discovery Miles 3 520 Save R50 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The critically acclaimed, award-winning author of the classic historical novel "Segu, " Maryse Conde has pieced together the life of her maternal grandmother to create a moving and profound novel.
Maryse Conde's personal journey of discovery and revelation becomes ours as we learn of Victoire, her white-skinned mestiza grandmother who worked as a cook for the Walbergs, a family of white Creoles, in the French Antilles.
Using her formidable skills as a storyteller, Conde describes her grandmother as having "Australian whiteness for the color of her skin...She jarred with my world of women in Italian straw bonnets and men necktied in three-piece linen suits, all of them a very black shade of black. She appeared to me doubly strange."
"Victoire" was spurred by Conde's desire to learn of her family history, resolving to begin her quest by researching the life of her grandmother. While uncovering the circumstances of Victoire's unique life story, Conde also comes to grips with a haunting question: How could her own mother, a black militant, have been raised in the Walberg's home, a household of whites?
Creating a work that takes readers into a time and place populated with unforgettable characters that inspire and amaze, Conde's blending of memoir and imagination, detective work and storytelling artistry, is a literary gem that readers won't soon forget.

What Is Africa to Me? - Fragments of a True-to-Life Autobiography (Hardcover): Maryse Conde What Is Africa to Me? - Fragments of a True-to-Life Autobiography (Hardcover)
Maryse Conde; Translated by Richard Philcox
R706 Discovery Miles 7 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Maryse Conde is one of the best-known and most beloved French Caribbean literary voices. The author of more than twenty novels, she was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 and has long been recognized as a giant of black feminist literature. While Conde has previously published an autobiography of her childhood, What Is Africa to Me? tells for the first time the story of her early adult years in Africa years formative not only for her, but also for African colonies appealing for their own independence.What Is Africa to Me? traces the late 1950s to 1968, chronicling Conde's life in Sekou Toure's Guinea to her time in Kwame N'Krumah's Ghana, where she rubbed shoulders with Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Julius Nyerere, and Maya Angelou. Accusations of subversive activity resulted in Conde's deportation from Ghana. Settling down in Senegal, Conde ended her African years with close friends in Dakar including, filmmakers, activists, and Haitian exiles, before putting down more permanent roots in Paris. Conde's story is more than one of political upheaval, however; it is also the story of a mother raising four children as she battles steep obstacles, of a Guadeloupean seeking her identity in Africa, and of a young woman searching for her freedom and vocation as a writer. What Is Africa to Me? is a searing portrait of a literary genius it should not be missed.

The Last of the African Kings (Paperback): Maryse Conde The Last of the African Kings (Paperback)
Maryse Conde; Afterword by Leah D. Hewitt; Translated by Richard Philcox
R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The Last of the African Kings" follows the wayward fortunes of a noble African family. It begins with the regal Behanzin, an African king who opposed French colonialism and was exiled to distant Martinique. In the course of this brilliant novel, Maryse Conde tells of Behanzin's scattered offspring and their lives in the Caribbean and the United States. A book made up of many characters and countless stories, "The Last of the African Kings" skillfully intertwines the themes of exile, lost origins, memory, and hope. It is set mainly in the Americas, from the Caribbean to modern-day South Carolina, yet Africa hovers always in the background.

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