“I would be honoured and delighted if you would consider donating anything of your work to our library. Your own book (with autograph or dedication), illustrations, and the like, would be most appreciated by our readership and by me personally.” – Professor Tadeusz Glowinski.
Just as Mathabane finds himself defending his participation in the tennis open, Achebe must argue for his use of English over Igbo. First, English is the only language spoken across all of Nigeria (not to mention most of the rest of the world), which allows his message to reach millions instead of just thousands or even hundreds.
“Nugent’s book is easily the best single-volume history of postcolonial Africa written in the last 20 years.”–Nicolas Van De Walle, Foreign Affairs
Shani Greene-Dowdell’s ‘Keeping It Tight’ chronicles the emotional roller-coaster life of Lela, a woman who can bring home the bacon, fry it up, and put it on the table as well. Lela is no stranger to heartbreak, but with the help of family and friends is able to pick up the pieces of her life and move on.
‘Slave Narratives’ represent early forms of what is now a major literary genre, the autobiography, that emerged in England during the 1760s as a reaction to ‘rational’, impersonal schools of thought from the so-called ‘Enlightenment’ Period. To me, they are essential to an understanding of black literary history as they form the ‘bedrock’ or foundation within Literature of the African Diaspora.
The branding of black inferiority is so deeply ingrained in American minds that not even winning the highest office the nation has to offer could serve as protection from being likened to a chimp, as was aptly demonstrated in the highly inflammatory New York Post cartoon.
In ‘The Denzel Principle: Why Black Women Can’t Find Good Black Men,’ Jimi Izrael is taking on a complex, sensitive, vital and always interesting agenda, which few African American men (or African/Caribbean-British men, for that matter) care to take on at all, let alone publicly and with so much effort.
Mark Z. Danielewski’s, House of Leaves, is on some levels a love story, on another it is an existential horror story, on yet others, it is a puzzle contained within pages. It whirls past preconceived notions of what a book is and turns into something completely new.
To coincide with a new website outlining Sylvester Stein’s interesting life, the Nononsense Press republishes his third novel, written in the early ’60s and called, ‘What the World Owes Me by Mary Bowes.’
