| Pensativities: Selected Essays Contributor(s): Couto, Mia (Author), Brookshaw, David (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1771960078 ISBN-13: 9781771960076 Publisher: Biblioasis OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Social Science | Essays |
| Dewey: 869.45 |
| Series: Biblioasis International Translation |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.9" W x 7.3" (0.35 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: BY THE FINALIST FOR THE 2015 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE One of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language.--Philip Graham, The Millions Subtle and elegant.--The Wall Street Journal At once deadpan and beguiling.--The Times Literary Supplement To understand what makes Ant nio 'Mia' Em lio Leite Couto special--even extraordinary--we have to loosen our grip on the binary that distinguishes between 'the West' and 'Africa.' Couto is 'white' without not being African, and as an 'African' writer he's one of the most important figures in a global Lusophone literature that stretches across three continents.--The New Inquiry What would Barack Obama's 2004 campaign have looked like if it unfolded in an African nation? What does it mean to be an African writer today? How do writers and poets from all continents teach us to cross the sert o, the savannah, the barren places where we're forced to walk within ourselves? Bringing together the best pieces from his previously untranslated nonfiction collections, alongside new material presented here for the first time in any language, Pensativities offers English readers a taste of Mia Couto as essayist, lecturer, and journalist--with essays on cosmopolitanism, poverty, culture gaps, conservation, and more. |