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Elleke Boehmer
1) Nile Baby
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English
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Nile Baby is an imaginatively daring story with a universal appeal, about two young friends, Alice Brass Khan and Arnie Binns, both twelve, both pre-teen misfits, who discover a ninety-year-old fetus specimen in the laboratory storeroom of their school and set out on two very different journeys to return it to its rightful home. Their journeys lead them to discover not only their absent fathers but also other buried and surprising roots. Close to...
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English
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"Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction outlines the long trajectory of the life of Nelson Mandela. It also considers images, narratives, politics, and more critical revisionist literature on Mandela in an effort to create the iconic image of Mandela. Mandela's life greatly coincides with the historical and political context of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the post-apartheid period of difficult reconciliation. The VSI features...
Series
Approaches to teaching world literature volume 130
Publisher
The Modern Language Association of America
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee treats such themes as race, aging, gender, animal rights, power, violence, colonial history and accountability, the silent or silenced other, sympathy, and forgiveness in an allusive and detached prose that avoids obvious answers or easy ethical reassurance....
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Language
English
Description
This film visits the genesis of Nelson Mandela, the world's most famous political prisoner. He became a legend built in his very own absence while jailed for 27 years. It is the story of a myth without a face, an international struggle against apartheid, popularized by political and pop culture figures all over the world.
