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ISBN-13: | 9780253024329 |
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Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
Publication date: | 02/20/2017 |
Series: | Global African Voices Series |
Pages: | 78 |
Sales rank: | 716,622 |
Product dimensions: | 5.30(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.30(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Preface Post-Genocide RwandaAcknowledgmentsFICTIONSTerminusCavalcadeAnd the dogs feastedSTORIESNo, Kigali is not sadReturn to KigaliBujumbura BeachAfterwordNote on translationsWhat People are Saying About This
"Waberi is equally at ease recounting the tragic fate and tumultuous nature of current events in Africa as he is evoking the pulsating beauty of its landscape and the luminous memory."
Abdourahman Waberi is a land surveyor who assembles his stories from glittering kaleidoscopic beads: modern in form, schooled on the writing of authors such as Nurrudin Farah, Sole Woyinka or Derek Walcott, poetic and ironic in tone – and mercilessly direct when it comes to pointing out the African traumas of colonisation, the struggle for independence, civil war, dictatorship and catastrophic famine . . . Harvest of Skulls is a book opposing forgetfulness.
Waberi is equally at ease recounting the tragic fate and tumultuous nature of current events in Africa as he is evoking the pulsating beauty of its landscape and the luminous memory.
An elegant writer-novelist.
One of the more inventive of a new wave of African writers, Waberi is also unique in the range of his influences.
One of the main agendas of Abdourahman Waberi's work is the subversion of stereotyped and hegemonic perceptions of the African continent. He employs sarcasm, irony and biting satire in his efforts to reclaim history, blur polarities and humanize the conceptual landscape.
Abdourahman Waberi is a land surveyor who assembles his stories from glittering kaleidoscopic beads: modern in form, schooled on the writing of authors such as Nurrudin Farah, Sole Woyinka or Derek Walcott, poetic and ironic in tone – and mercilessly direct when it comes to pointing out the African traumas of colonisation, the struggle for independence, civil war, dictatorship and catastrophic famine . . . Harvest of Skulls is a book opposing forgetfulness.
One of the main agendas of Abdourahman Waberi's work is the subversion of stereotyped and hegemonic perceptions of the African continent. He employs sarcasm, irony and biting satire in his efforts to reclaim history, blur polarities and humanize the conceptual landscape.
Waberi is equally at ease recounting the tragic fate and tumultuous nature of current events in Africa as he is evoking the pulsating beauty of its landscape and the luminous memory.