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Othello is one of Shakespeare's most contemporary and moving plays, with its emphasis on race, revenge, murder, and lost love. Chris Ofili's new edition highlight's the tragedy of Othello's plight in ways no other previous edition of this play has. In twelve etchings Ofili has produced to illustrate this play, Othello is depicted with tears in his eyes, which flow below various scenes visualized in his forehead. Ofili asks us to see in Othello the great injustices that still plague the world today. These images add feeling to Shakespeare's words, and together they form their own hybrid...

At the age of thirty-three, Ekow Eshun--born in London to African-born parents--travels to Ghana in search of his roots. He goes from Accra, Ghana's cosmopolitan capital city, to the storied slave forts of Elmina, and on to the historic warrior kingdom of Asante. During his journey, Eshun uncovers a long-held secret about his lineage that will compel him to question everything he knows about himself and where he comes from. From the London suburbs of his childhood to the twenty-first century African metropolis, Eshun's is a moving chronicle of one man's search for home, and of the pleasures...

Oto znane mity o stworzeniu świata, o Heraklesie, Tezeuszu i Perseuszu, o wojnie trojańskiej i Argonautach. W przeciwieństwie jednak do wielu poprzednich zbiorów mitów greckich centralne miejsce zajmują tu bohaterki: to Atena, Alkitoe, Filomela, Arachne, Andromacha, Helena, Kirke i Penelopa opowiadają historie, wplatając je w tkane przez siebie gobeliny. Maluje się na nich świat skrajności, który głęboko rezonuje z naszym: tajemnicze choroby niszczą miasta, katastrofy ekologiczne pochłaniają istnienia, kobiety doświadczają przemocy ze strony mężczyzn.W tej niezwykle...