Nimrod: selected works
by Du Toit, Catherine,, (Professor) Ekotto, Frieda Goedde, Emily Kandé, Sylvie Nimrod Williamson, Patrick
The Chadian writer Nimrod2014philosopher, poet, novelist, and essayist2014is one of the most dynamic and vital voices in contemporary African literature and thought. Yet little of Nimrod2019s writing has been translated into English until now. Introductory material by Frieda Ekotto provides context for Nimrod2019s work and demonstrates the urgency of making it available beyond Francophone Africa to a broader global audience. At the heart of this volume are Nimrod2019s essays on Léopold Sédar Se…
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- Full title :Nimrod : selected works / Frieda Ekotto, editor ; prose translated by Dawn Cornelio ; poetry translated by Catherine du Toit, Patrick Williamson, and Emily Goedde and Sylvie Kandé
Summary
The Chadian writer Nimrod2014philosopher, poet, novelist, and essayist2014is one of the most dynamic and vital voices in contemporary African literature and thought. Yet little of Nimrod2019s writing has been translated into English until now. Introductory material by Frieda Ekotto provides context for Nimrod2019s work and demonstrates the urgency of making it available beyond Francophone Africa to a broader global audience. At the heart of this volume are Nimrod2019s essays on Léopold Sédar Senghor, a key figure in the literary and aesthetic Négritude movement of the 1930s and president of Senegal from 1945 through 1980. Widely dismissed in recent decades as problematically essentialist, Senghorian Negritude articulated notions of 201Cblackness201D as a way of transcending deep divisions across a Black Diaspora under French colonial rule. Nimrod offers a nuanced reading of Senghor, drawing out the full complexities of Senghor2019s philosophy and reevaluating how race and colonialism function in a French-speaking space. Also included in this volume are Nimrod2019s essays on literature from the 2008 collection, The New French Matter (La nouvelle chose française). Representing his prose fiction is his 2010 work, Rivers2019 Gold (L2019or des rivières). Also featured are some of Nimrod2019s best-loved poems, in both English translation and the original French. The works selected and translated for this volume showcase Nimrod2019s versatility, his intellectual liveliness, and his exploration of questions of aesthetics in African literature, philosophy, and linguistics. Nimrod: Selected Writings marks a significant contribution toward engaging a broader audience with one of the vital voices of our time. This book will be essential reading for Anglophone students and scholars of African philosophy, literature, poetry, and critical theory, and will offer a welcome introduction to Nimrod for general readers of contemporary international writing."
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- Publication Date:2019
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Michigan Press
- Place of Publication:Ann Arbor
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019
The Physical Object
- Description:vi, 239 pages ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780472074068 (hardcover : alk. paper), 0472074067 (hardcover : alk. paper), 9780472054060 (pbk. : alk. paper), 0472054066 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- oclc:on1107047664
- LC Classification:PQ3989.2.N5446
- Dewey Decimal:848.91409
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