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Kmt: In the House of Life: an epistemic Novel
mars 2003 | | Littérature / édition | Sénégal
Français
Un nouveau roman d’Ayi Kwei Armah paru le 20 février
The Novel is available from Per Ankh Publishers for .99 plus shipping and handling.
The blurb on the back jacket gives this summary:
« Mourning a lost friend, Lindela, the narrator of KMT, Ayi Kwei Armah’s seventh novel, plunges into history, seeking meaning in life’s flow. Loving companionsan Egyptologist and two traditionalistsshow her secret hieroglyphic texts left by migrant Egyptian scribes millennia ago. As Lindela translates them, old questions animating her search for knowledge of self and society acquire a sharpened urgency: How best can Africa’s multimillennial history be envisioned as one continuous stream? Why did the society that invented literacy sink into the misery of illiteracy, ignorance and religion? What creative African values lie buried under the lethal debris of slavery, colonialism, structural adjustment and globalization? And why did the ancient scribes call the concept of Maât our best promise of regeneration? KMT is the narrative of an African woman’s life-quest, and of the answers she uncovers. »
Per Ankh Publishers have also brought out new editions of Armah’s The Healers ( + s&h)and Two Thousand Seasons ( + s&h) as well as a children’s book, New Friends by Maty Thioune ( + s&h), and a children’s primer on ancient Egyptian writing, Hieroglyphics For Babies by A.M. Lam and A.K. Armah ( +1 s&h).
The blurb on the back jacket gives this summary:
« Mourning a lost friend, Lindela, the narrator of KMT, Ayi Kwei Armah’s seventh novel, plunges into history, seeking meaning in life’s flow. Loving companionsan Egyptologist and two traditionalistsshow her secret hieroglyphic texts left by migrant Egyptian scribes millennia ago. As Lindela translates them, old questions animating her search for knowledge of self and society acquire a sharpened urgency: How best can Africa’s multimillennial history be envisioned as one continuous stream? Why did the society that invented literacy sink into the misery of illiteracy, ignorance and religion? What creative African values lie buried under the lethal debris of slavery, colonialism, structural adjustment and globalization? And why did the ancient scribes call the concept of Maât our best promise of regeneration? KMT is the narrative of an African woman’s life-quest, and of the answers she uncovers. »
Per Ankh Publishers have also brought out new editions of Armah’s The Healers ( + s&h)and Two Thousand Seasons ( + s&h) as well as a children’s book, New Friends by Maty Thioune ( + s&h), and a children’s primer on ancient Egyptian writing, Hieroglyphics For Babies by A.M. Lam and A.K. Armah ( +1 s&h).
English
New Novel by Armah – Date: 20 Feb 2003
The Novel is available from Per Ankh Publishers for .99 plus shipping and handling.
The blurb on the back jacket gives this summary:
« Mourning a lost friend, Lindela, the narrator of KMT, Ayi Kwei Armah’s seventh novel, plunges into history, seeking meaning in life’s flow. Loving companionsan Egyptologist and two traditionalistsshow her secret hieroglyphic texts left by migrant Egyptian scribes millennia ago. As Lindela translates them, old questions animating her search for knowledge of self and society acquire a sharpened urgency: How best can Africa’s multimillennial history be envisioned as one continuous stream? Why did the society that invented literacy sink into the misery of illiteracy, ignorance and religion? What creative African values lie buried under the lethal debris of slavery, colonialism, structural adjustment and globalization? And why did the ancient scribes call the concept of Maât our best promise of regeneration? KMT is the narrative of an African woman’s life-quest, and of the answers she uncovers. »
Per Ankh Publishers have also brought out new editions of Armah’s The Healers ( + s&h)and Two Thousand Seasons ( + s&h) as well as a children’s book, New Friends by Maty Thioune ( + s&h), and a children’s primer on ancient Egyptian writing, Hieroglyphics For Babies by A.M. Lam and A.K. Armah ( +1 s&h).
The blurb on the back jacket gives this summary:
« Mourning a lost friend, Lindela, the narrator of KMT, Ayi Kwei Armah’s seventh novel, plunges into history, seeking meaning in life’s flow. Loving companionsan Egyptologist and two traditionalistsshow her secret hieroglyphic texts left by migrant Egyptian scribes millennia ago. As Lindela translates them, old questions animating her search for knowledge of self and society acquire a sharpened urgency: How best can Africa’s multimillennial history be envisioned as one continuous stream? Why did the society that invented literacy sink into the misery of illiteracy, ignorance and religion? What creative African values lie buried under the lethal debris of slavery, colonialism, structural adjustment and globalization? And why did the ancient scribes call the concept of Maât our best promise of regeneration? KMT is the narrative of an African woman’s life-quest, and of the answers she uncovers. »
Per Ankh Publishers have also brought out new editions of Armah’s The Healers ( + s&h)and Two Thousand Seasons ( + s&h) as well as a children’s book, New Friends by Maty Thioune ( + s&h), and a children’s primer on ancient Egyptian writing, Hieroglyphics For Babies by A.M. Lam and A.K. Armah ( +1 s&h).
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