"One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text. But linguistic understanding of this remains very limited, especially in genres such as the short story where there is a staging of the clash between predictability and unpredict…
The Norton anthology of short fiction
A collection of stories by African writers which deal with life and customs in African society.
A fine anthology, well selected, well ordered, and altogether a pleasure to read. The editors have chosen twenty stories by twenty different writers from all over Africa, grouping them geographically into four different sections: West, East, North and Southern Africa.... They ha…
African short stories
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, Innes, Catherine Lynette, Achebe, Chinua, Sembène, Ousmane, Aidoo, Ama Ata, Balogun, Fidelis Odun, Owoyele, David, Kenyatta, Jomo, Ogot, Grace, Gurnah, Abdulrazak, Kibera, Leonard, Rifʻat, Alīfah, Ṣāliḥ, al-Ṭayyib, Bisāṭī, Muḥammad, Honwana, Luís Bernardo, Gordimer, Nadine, Essop, Ahmed, Marechera, Dambudzo, Mphahlele, Es'kia, Head, Bessie, Gwala, Mafika Pascal
A collection of stories by African writers which deal with life and customs in African society.
"This book presents a comprehensive study of nearly 100 of Kaaroor's short stories. Kaaroor Neelakanta Pillai is one among the Big Six of the 'new wave' in Malayalam literature which began in the mid-1940s. The Big Six and their immediate followers wrote about the common man, pe…
"John Steinbeck's Salinas Valley. Richard Wright's Chicago. Leslie Marmon Silko's New Mexico. Readers often have strong connections with literary places like these. And some works of literature can even change our understanding of the world we live in. But can place also change …