wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Breaking the Silence: Anthology of Liberian Poetry
ISBN: 9781496233066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Breaking the Silence is the first comprehensive collection of literature from Liberia since before the nation’s independence. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley has gathered work from the 1800s to the present, including poets and emerging young writers exploring contemporary literary traditions with African and African diaspora poetry that transcends borders. In this collection, Liberia’s founding settlers wrestle with their identity as African free slaves in the homeland from which their ancestors were captured, and writers of the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries find themselves navigating...
Breaking the Silence is the first comprehensive collection of literature from Liberia since before the nation’s independence. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley...
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88,13 zł |
Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems
ISBN: 9781938769504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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87,36 zł |
Where the Road Turns
ISBN: 9781932870404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Wesley's fourth poetry collection, she continues her lyric exploration of what it means to be a survivor and an immigrant, retelling stories of a generation ruined by war and grief, and the healing that follows.
In Wesley's fourth poetry collection, she continues her lyric exploration of what it means to be a survivor and an immigrant, retelling stories of a g...
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76,44 zł |
When the Wanderers Come Home
ISBN: 9780803288577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Described by African scholar and literary critic Chielozona Eze as "one of the most prolific African poets of the twenty-first century," Patricia Jabbeh Wesley composed When the Wanderers Come Home during a four-month visit to her homeland of Liberia in 2013. She gives powerful voice to the pain and inner turmoil of a homeland still reconciling itself in the aftermath of multiple wars and destruction.
Wesley, a native Liberian, calls on deeply rooted African motifs and proverbs, utilizing the poetics of both the West and Africa to convey her grief. Autobiographical in... Described by African scholar and literary critic Chielozona Eze as "one of the most prolific African poets of the twenty-first century," Patricia Jabb...
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67,38 zł |
Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa
ISBN: 9780932826640 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Before the Palm Could Bloom, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley writes poems of the Liberian civil war and of the devastation it has wrought: 200,000 dead -- including 50,000 children -- and 750,000 citizens forced to take refuge in neighboring countries. And in poems of village life and customs, the city life of Monrovia, the rites of childhood and adolescence, Wesley records for the reader a world that has been forever changed. Wesley's poems incorporate many African voices, and range in tone from sorrow and longing, to humor and ironic wit. Wesley teaches African literature and other subjects at...
In Before the Palm Could Bloom, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley writes poems of the Liberian civil war and of the devastation it has wrought: 200,000 dead -- i...
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60,06 zł |
2019 DoveTales Anthology: One World, One People
ISBN: 9780989120678 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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143,90 zł |
Cutthroat, A Journal Of The Arts: Cutthroat 24 Vols. 1 & 2 Spring 2019
ISBN: 9781732017009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,85 zł |