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| stories from a shona childhood: Stories from a shona childhood , 1988 |
| stories from a shona childhood: Stories from a Shona Childhood Charles Mungoshi, 1989 Four Shona folktales, retold by one of Zimbabwe's foremost writers. |
| stories from a shona childhood: One Day, Long Ago Charles Mungoshi, 1991 Four Shona folktales, retold by one of Zimbabwe's foremost writers. |
| stories from a shona childhood: Stories from Uganda James Appe, 1994 Exciting tales from author's native Uganda. |
| stories from a shona childhood: Out Of Rhythm Shona Husk, 2015-04-01 They might be one of the hottest up-and-coming bands in Australia, but the members of Selling the Sun have a lot to learn about life, love, sex, and each other. Coming off a successful Australian tour and prestigious industry award nominations, Gemma Field's life should be perfect. Instead her parents want her to get a real job, the second album isn't coming together, and her best friend, Kirsten wants nothing to do with her. Falling for her best friend was never going to make life easy. After an almost accidental drunken kiss almost six months ago, they aren't even talking. Gemma can't even talk about it with anyone – not her family, not her bandmates, not even the one person she used to share everything with. Instead she lives in a space of indecision and pain, and it's affecting all aspects of her life, including the band. Kirsten Vincent missed Gemma like crazy, but did she miss her as a friend or as something more? She's confused and Gemma is hurt, and the consequences of a bad decision will affect more than their personal lives. Will another kiss, a sober kiss, a kiss with intent, do more damage, or could it be the start of something more? |
| stories from a shona childhood: Flame Tree Road Shona Patel, 2015 1870s India. In a tiny village where society is ruled by a caste system and women are defined solely by marriage, young Biren Roy dreams of forging a new destiny. When his mother suffers the fate of widowhood--shunned by her loved ones and forced to live in solitary penance--Biren devotes his life to effecting change. Just when his vision for the future begins to look hopeless, he meets Maya, the independent-minded daughter of a local educator, and his soul is reignited. |
| stories from a shona childhood: Can We Talk and Other Stories Shimmer Chinodya, 2001 A collection of Zimbabwean stories following the transition from childhood to adult life. Youthful desires for prosperity, love and a purpose in life are undermined as the characters grow up, reflecting the decline in post-independence Zimbabwe. |
| stories from a shona childhood: More Stories from Uganda James Appe, 1994 Exciting tales from native Uganda. |
| stories from a shona childhood: Writing Still - New stories from Zimbabwe Irene Staunton, 2003-06-15 The history of Zimbabwe has always been reflected in its oral and written literature. Much of the serious fiction written in the 1980s and early 1990s focused on the effects of Zimbabwe?s war of liberation. Little has yet been written about post-independence Zimbabwe and the complex and challenging issues that have arisen in the last twenty years. This anthology of twenty-two short stories provides a representative sample of the range and quality of writing in Zimbabwe at the turn of the century, and an impressionistic reflection of the years since independence in 1980. Included are stories by established writers Shimmer Chinodya, Charles Mungoshi, Brian Chikwava; and some younger or less established writers, , Clement Chihota, Wonder Guchu, Chiedza Musengezi, Mary Ndlovu, Vivienne Ndlovu and Stanley Nyamfukudza. The collection also reflects a slightly broader perspective with stories by Alexandra Fuller, Derek Huggins, Pat Brickhill and Chris Wilson, who engage with historical memory of the conflicts out of which Zimbabwe arose, and the lessons to be drawn from living within a culture other than one?s own. Overall, the anthology reaffirms the persistent value attached to imaginative writing in Zimbabwe, and illustrates that the country?s literary tradition is alive and well, and reshaping itself for new times. |
| stories from a shona childhood: Shona Vicky Jones, 2021-10-11 Shona Jackson is new in town. Everywhere she goes, she feels people staring at her. Everyone has a secret. Hers could get her killed... Mississippi, 1956. Shona Jackson knows two things-how to repair car engines and that her dark childhood secret must stay buried. On the run from Louisiana, she finds shelter from an unjust world in the home of a kindly old lady and a job as a mechanic. But a woman working a man's job can't avoid notice in a small town. And attention is dangerous, especially when it comes from one woman in particular... Can Shona outrun the perils that threaten her, and finally settle down? Or will her new, unexpected friendship attract a different kind of danger? Captivating from the first page, Shona is the first unforgettable novel in a mesmerizing, heart-wrenching historical fiction trilogy. For fans of women's fiction and small-town romance stories set in the 1950s Deep South of America. |
| stories from a shona childhood: The Moon Spun Round W. B. Yeats, 2016-10-03 Bringing the spirit and beauty of Yeats's writing to a whole new young audience! This sumptuously illustrated book complements the carefully selected works of W.B. Yeats, which include poems, stories, a letter from childhood, and an account of his daughter Anne's memories of childhood. Including unpublished work, this gorgeous book draws on Yeats's preoccupation with magic, fairy lore, place, family and childhood. A mystical and magical tone that pervades the collection will enthral younger readers. |
| stories from a shona childhood: Writing Now. More Stories from Zimbabwe Irene Staunton, 2005-06-15 The sequel to the award-winning Writing Still, this new collection of stories paints an engaging - and sometimes challenging - picture of contemporary life and concerns in Zimbabwe. Like its predecessor, Writing Now combines well-established writers - Chinodya, Mupfudzi, Eppel, Chingono - with several new voices. Although the stories emerge from lives of economic hardship and privation, their tone is by no means uniformly. Zimbabwean writers continue to demonstrate that sharp humour and surreal fantasy can grow from the bleakest of roots. |
| stories from a shona childhood: Growing Up at Lina School Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, 1988 Grace and her family return to Kenya from England, where they have been living for quite some time. Youns Grace joins a girls' boarding school in Kenya. While her parents are worried she might not adjust to the new system, for Grace and the other girls at Lina School life is full of action, fun and adventure. |
| stories from a shona childhood: A Girl Named Disaster Nancy Farmer, 1996 While journeying to Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits. |
| stories from a shona childhood: The Black Hand Gang Grow Up Marjorie Macgoye, 2002-06 Seven years after they first came together, the members of the Black Hand Gang meet up again. They find much has changed. Whilst they cherish their shared past, they discover they have chosen different paths in life, and are preparing for adult life in different ways. |
| stories from a shona childhood: An African Quilt Barbara H. Solomon, W. Reginald Rampone Jr., 2012-12-31 Encompassing many different visions of Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships. Reflecting a continent with a tragic history, An African Quilt depicts a place where even everyday life is extraordinary, and the continent’s history changes what it means to be a woman, an employee, a couple, a passerby, and, of course, a citizen. Revealed through the backdrop of postcolonial Africa, the struggles within these stories resonate beyond their context and appeal to every reader’s sense of what it means to be human. Includes Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nadine Gordimer (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Bessie Head, Doris Lessing (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Others |
| stories from a shona childhood: Dictionary of African Biography Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2012-02-02 From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -). |
| stories from a shona childhood: Kobole’s Misfortunes David G. Maillu, |
| stories from a shona childhood: Kandu and the Lake Barrack Muluka, B Muluka, 2003 Kandu lives with his parents in a fishing village near a big lake. Kandu's father is a fisherman, and sometimes allows Kandu to accompany him to the shore. Kandu sits and watches the men, and women, and donkeys going about their daily business, or he plays with the other boys. One day, he starts helping a woman at the store to wrap fried fish, for which he was paid enough to buy sweets. He soon prefers this, to going to school. But when his father and his teacher find out what he is doing, they arevery angry. |
| stories from a shona childhood: The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism Greg Garrard, 2014 The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism provides a broad survey of the longstanding relationship between literature and the environment. The moment for such an offering is opportune in many respects: multiple environmental crises are increasingly inescapable at both transnational and local levels; the role of the humanities in addition to technology and politics is increasingly recognized as central for exploring and finding solutions; and the subject of ecocriticism has reached a kind of critical mass, both within its Anglo-American heartlands and beyond. From its origins in the study of American Nature Writing and British Romanticism, ecocriticism has developed along numerous theoretical, historical, cultural and geographical axes, the most contemporary and exciting of which will be represented in the Handbook. The contributors include eminent founders of the field, including Cheryll Glotfelty and Jonathan Bate, a number of key second-wave ecocritics, and the best up-and-coming scholars. Topics covered include: Green Shakespeare-the Bard's subversive uses of the pastoral; John Clare's sacred relationship with the land; Thoreau's profound political passion; the natural landscape as symbol of postcolonial resistance in works by Lessing, Naipaul, and Coetzee; the relation between feminism and environmentalism; language and the concept of biosemiotics; and concerns over pollution and toxicity in films like Erin Brockovitch, Michael Clayton, and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. |
| stories from a shona childhood: A Girl who Could Not Keep Quiet Rose Mwangi, 1993 |
| stories from a shona childhood: Sundiata Lynne Mansure, 2002-06 Sundiata is the story of a man who lived in West Africa almost 800 years ago. It is the myth of a hunter's prophecy that a king will marry an ugly foreign woman who will give birth to a son, who will come to rule the kingdom on Mali. It is a tale of conquest and heroism. |
| stories from a shona childhood: Wandering a Gendered Wilderness Isabel Mukonyora, 2007 Original Scholarly Monograph |
| stories from a shona childhood: Mworia the Warrior Konye Njoroge, 2005 |
| stories from a shona childhood: Stanley Thornes Primary Literacy - Year 4 Antholog , 1999 Part of a series specially written for the National Literacy Strategy, this is a collection of stories, poems and other pieces by many different authors. Also available is a corresponding textbook designed to help readers to get the most out of the anthology. |
| stories from a shona childhood: The Black Hand Gang Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, 1997 |
| stories from a shona childhood: Misa the Precious Cow Jimmi Makotsi, 1994 Edward is preparing to visit his cousins Ben and Tim during the school holidays. But Misa, their only cow, disappears on the eve of his travels, throwing his plans into doubt and setting in motion a chain of exciting events that are related in this book and in The boys in Kakamega and A gang called Musumbiji. |
| stories from a shona childhood: Student Encyclopedia of African Literature Douglas Killam, Alicia L. Kerfoot, 2007-12-30 African literature is a vast subject of growing output and interest. Written especially for students, this book selectively surveys the topic in a clear and accessible way. Included are roughly 600 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, genres, and major works. Many entries cite works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. Africa is a land of contrasts and of diverse cultures and traditions. It is also a land of conflict and creativity. The literature of the continent draws upon a fascinating body of oral traditions and lore and also reflects the political turmoil of the modern world. With the increased interest in cultural diversity and the growing centrality of Africa in world politics, African literature is figuring more and more prominently in the curriculum. This book helps students learn about the African literary achievement. Written expressly for students, this book is far more accessible than other reference works on the subject. Included are nearly 600 alphabetically arranged entries on authors, such as Chinua Achebe, Athol Fugard, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, and Wole Soyinka; major works, such as Things Fall Apart and Petals of Blood; and individual genres, such as the novel, drama, and poetry. Many entries cite works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. |
| stories from a shona childhood: The Hero and the Dream Leteipa Ole Sunkuli, 2003 |
| stories from a shona childhood: The Routledge Companion to International Children's Literature John Stephens, 2017-09-11 Demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, political and intellectual diversity of children’s literature across the globe, The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature is the first volume of its kind to focus on the undervisited regions of the world. With particular focus on Asia, Africa and Latin America, the collection raises awareness of children’s literature and related media as they exist in large regions of the world to which ‘mainstream’ European and North American scholarship pays very little attention. Sections cover: • Concepts and theories • Historical contexts and national identity • Cultural forms and children’s texts • Traditional story and adaptation • Picture books across the majority world • Trends in children’s and young adult literatures. Exposition of the literary, cultural and historical contexts in which children’s literature is produced, together with an exploration of intersections between these literatures and more extensively researched areas, will enhance access and understanding for a large range of international readers. The essays offer an ideal introduction for those newly approaching literature for children in specific areas, looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives, or interested in directions for future scholarship. |
| stories from a shona childhood: Library of Congress Subject Headings Library of Congress, 2010 |
| stories from a shona childhood: Critical Perspectives on Postcolonial African Children's and Young Adult Literature Meena Khorana, 1998-04-08 The past few years mark a growing scholarly interest in African children's literature in the United States. Several books have recently been published on the subject, and the number of papers on African children's literature presented at conferences or published in scholarly journals also seems to have increased. These publications are becoming more and more sophisticated as scholars move away from general country surveys or analyses of publishing conditions and instead analyze literary structures, themes, and illustrations, or apply Marxist, feminist, or postcolonial theories to interpret literary works. The question of an authentic voice in postcolonial African children's literature has emerged as a central concern to those who care about books for African children and young adults. Also of importance is the matter of how Africa is presented in literature for children who do not live on that continent. The essays in this book either take a postcolonial or revisionist approach to the study of colonial literature, or discuss books published after decolonization. The introductory essay provides a general analysis of the key issues facing the publication of children's books in postcolonial Africa—issues of national identity, language, appropriate genres, and relevant themes to inculcate a nationalistic outlook in children and young adults. The chapters that follow are located within this broad framework and are written by expert contributors. While these essays reflect the scholarly interests and specialization of each author, they also span the entire field of African children's literature. The first group of chapters surveys African children's literature from a variety of angles and explores such topics as literacy and the publishing culture in Africa, the role and importance of awards, Nigerian young adult literature, and the relevance of folktales. The book then turns to a discussion of books about Africa written by Western authors for Western readers, which often project values and perspectives that betray a continuing colonial bias. The last part of the book examines more specialized themes and concerns. |
| stories from a shona childhood: Kagai and Her Brothers , |
| stories from a shona childhood: The Three Hunters G. Z. O. Nyotumba, 1997 Greed, dishonesty and pride are the themes of these four stories, designed to encourage reading for pleasure. The stories are The Three Hunters, Nyakalondo and the Merciless Father, Hare Learns a Lesson, and Lion, Hare and the Thorn. |
| stories from a shona childhood: Little Wangui George N. Kamau, 1995 This is the story of Wangui, a young girl whose adventure starts in a canoe on the dangerous dragon-filled lake and who then encounters Magic Boy and the giants of the White Hill. |
| stories from a shona childhood: Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists Tim Woods, 2008-02-21 Taking in novelists from all over the globe, from the beginning of the century to the present day, this is the most comprehensive survey of the leading lights of twentieth century fiction. Superb breadth of coverage and over 800 entries by an international team of contributors ensures that this fascinating and wide-ranging work of reference will be invaluable to anyone with an interest in modern fiction. Authors included range from Joseph Conrad to Albert Camus and Franz Kafka to Chinua Achebe. Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists gives a superb insight into the richness and diversity of the twentieth century novel. |
| stories from a shona childhood: The Broadview Introduction to Literature Lisa Chalykoff, Neta Gordon, Paul Lumsden, 2013-08-08 Designed for courses taught at the introductory level in Canadian universities and colleges, this new anthology provides a rich selection of literary texts. In each genre the anthology includes a vibrant mix of classic and contemporary works. Each work is accompanied by an author biography and by explanatory notes, and each genre is prefaced by a substantial introduction. Pedagogically current and uncommon in its breadth of representation, The Broadview Introduction to Literature invites students into the world of literary study in a truly distinctive way. |
| stories from a shona childhood: Every Family Is Different Maureen Eppen, 2018-01-31 Who's in your family? Some children live with their mum and dad, others live with their grandparents or foster parents. Some live in a big house, others live in a tiny apartment. With captivating illustrations, Every Family is Different celebrates what it means to be part of a family, and reminds us that there's something that's always the same in every family... |
| stories from a shona childhood: The Magical Bird of Navuhi Egara Kabaji, 2005 |
| stories from a shona childhood: Further Adventures of the Black Hand Gang Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, 2005 The Black Hand Gang is a neighbourhood group of young Kenyans, which meets in the eastern part of Nairobi. The gang members, Onyango, Waithaka, his sister Jane, V.J. Patel and Hassan make a lot of friends trying to help other people. The story is intended as a supplementary text for children fluent in reading, to encourage reading for pleasure. |
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