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Jazz and Palm Wine
Emmanuel Dongala
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Description for Jazz and Palm Wine
Paperback. Translator(s): Thomas, Dominic. Series: Global African Voices. Num Pages: 138 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556. .
Jazz, aliens, and witchcraft collide in this collection of short stories by renowned author Emmanuel Dongala. The influence of Kongo culture is tangible throughout, as customary beliefs clash with party conceptions of scientific and rational thought. In the first half of Jazz and Palm Wine, the characters emerge victorious from decades of colonial exploitation in the Congo only to confront the burdensome bureaucracy, oppressive legal systems, and corrupt governments of the post-colonial era. The ruling political party attempts to impose order and scientific thinking while the people struggles to deal with drought, infertility, and impossible regulations and policies; both sides ... Read more
Jazz, aliens, and witchcraft collide in this collection of short stories by renowned author Emmanuel Dongala. The influence of Kongo culture is tangible throughout, as customary beliefs clash with party conceptions of scientific and rational thought. In the first half of Jazz and Palm Wine, the characters emerge victorious from decades of colonial exploitation in the Congo only to confront the burdensome bureaucracy, oppressive legal systems, and corrupt governments of the post-colonial era. The ruling political party attempts to impose order and scientific thinking while the people struggles to deal with drought, infertility, and impossible regulations and policies; both sides ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Global African Voices
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
138
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253026699
SKU
V9780253026699
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About Emmanuel Dongala
Emmanuel Dongala is Richard B. Fisher Chair in Natural Sciences at Bard College at Simon's Rock. His novels have been awarded the Grand Prix Ladislas Dormandi, the Grand Prix Litteraire d'Afrique Noire, the Charles Oulmont Prize, and the Cezam Literary Prize. Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of ... Read more
Reviews for Jazz and Palm Wine
Dongala's striking story collection, originally published in France in 1982, includes political tales set in his native Congo and jazz-themed pieces set in America. . . . Dongala's prose can be quite moving, and his writing full of marvelous, lyrical imagery, as when he describes the evening as 'those inchoate and fugitive hours when the daylight begins to fade and ... Read more