Lieutenant of Kouta e-bog
169,58 DKK
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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
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.