The Three Treasures: A Revised and Illustrated Study and Translation of Minamoto No Tamenori’s Sanboe - Couverture rigide

Kamens, Edward; Bushelle, Ethan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0472075802 ISBN 13 : 9780472075805

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2023

Synopsis

Winner of the 2024 African Studies Association Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize Across contiguous nation-states in Eastern Africa, the geographic proximity disguises an ideological complexity. Land has meant something fundamental in the sociocultural history of each country. Those concerns, however, have manifested into varied political events, and the range of struggles over land has spawned a multiplicity of literary interventions. While Kenya and Uganda were both British colonies, Kenya's experience of settler land alienation made for a much more violent response against efforts at political independence. Uganda's relatively calm unyoking from the colonial burden, however, led to a tumultuous post-independence. Tanzania, too, like Kenya and Uganda, resisted British colonial administration—after Germany's defeat in World War 1. In Writing on the Soil, author Ng’ang’a Wahu-Mũchiri argues that representations of land and landscape perform significant metaphorical labor in African literatures, and this argument evolves across several geographical spaces. Each chapter's analysis is grounded in a particular locale: western Kenya, colonial Tanganyika, post-independence Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Anam Ka'alakol (Lake Turkana), Kampala, and Kitgum in Northern Uganda. Moreover, each section contributes to a deeper understanding of the aesthetic choices that authors make when deploying tropes revolving around land, landscape, and the environment. Mũchiri disentangles the numerous connections between geography and geopolitical space on the one hand, and ideology and cultural analysis on the other. This book embodies a multi-layered argument in the sphere of African critical scholarship, while adding to the growing field of African land rights scholarship—an approach that foregrounds the close reading of Africa’s literary canon.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edward Kamens is Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies at Yale University.

Ethan Bushelle is Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions and Culture at Western Washington University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472075802
• ISBN 13: 9780472075805
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 460
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• Personne responsable: non disponible