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Letters from Togo
Singular Lives
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41,93 € |
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| Verlag: | University Of Iowa Press |
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| Veröffentl.: | 01.11.1991 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781587290183 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 203 |
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Beschreibungen
Blake's adventurous essays-her Letters from Togo-are based on the letters she wrote to her friends from Lome, the West African capital where she spent a Fulbright year teaching American literature from 1983 to 1984. As Blake begins the process of making sense out of a vibrant, seeming anarchy, we are pulled along with her into the heart of Togo-a tiny dry strip of a country no one can even find on a map.With her delightful prose and insight for detail Blake introduces us to Mahouna, her housekeeper, who runs a cold drink business from his refrigerator in a country where electricity is unreliable; to American Lee Ann and her Togolese family, who works at the American school to earn the fees for a private education for her children; and to the suave Ren wearing silk shirts and a most seductive smile, who teeters on the edge of the Togolese and expatriate worlds.Since Lom is both an overgrown village and a cosmopolitan city, Blake's exhilarating, often humorous experiences range from buying a car to attending a traditional tom-tom funeral, from visiting people who hunt with bows and arrows to enduring faculty meetings, from negotiating the politics of buying produce to lecturing on Afro-American literature at the English Club. Together, her enlivening letters trace the pattern of adjusting to a foreign environment and probe the connections between Africa and this curious, energetic American. Not "e;out of Africa"e; but within it, they take advantage of time and perspective to penetrate the universal experience of being a stranger in a strange land.
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