Lieutenant of Kouta (e-bog) af Massa Makan Diabate, Diabate

Lieutenant of Kouta e-bog

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The Lieutenant of Kouta is the first novel in Massa Makan Diabate's award-winning trilogy. Featuring an introduction by leading Diabate scholar Cheick M. Cherif Keita and Shane Auerbach, it tells the story, part tragicomic and part hagiographic, of an African lieutenant in the French Army who returns as a decorated hero from the battlefields of Europe to Kouta, a fictionalized version of the au...
E-bog 169,58 DKK
Forfattere Massa Makan Diabate, Diabate (forfatter), David Yost, Yost (oversætter)
Udgivet 1 februar 2017
Længde 127 sider
Genrer Fiction: general and literary
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781609175122
The Lieutenant of Kouta is the first novel in Massa Makan Diabate's award-winning trilogy. Featuring an introduction by leading Diabate scholar Cheick M. Cherif Keita and Shane Auerbach, it tells the story, part tragicomic and part hagiographic, of an African lieutenant in the French Army who returns as a decorated hero from the battlefields of Europe to Kouta, a fictionalized version of the author's own birthplace, the Malian town of Kita. Upon his return, Siriman Keita finds it difficult to adjust to village life as he navigates traditional customs in his attempts to create his place in the predominantly Muslim Kouta. The novel offers a rich and nuanced representation of Mali on the brink of independence; it is a tapestry of traditional Mandinka society and the French colonial apparatus, illustrating the dynamic interplay between the two. This text is, ultimately, a story of one man's transformation coinciding with that of his country.