كتاب
The fortunes of Wangrin
| العنوان: | The fortunes of Wangrin |
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| المؤلفون: | Bâ, Amadou Hampaté. |
| المساهمون: | Taylor, Aina Pavolini. |
| بيانات النشر: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1999. |
| سنة النشر: | 1999 |
| وصف مادي: | xix, 272 p. ; 24 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Fiction. |
| Subject Person: | Wangrin -- Fiction. |
| الوصف: | A novel on the evils of white colonialism in Africa. Set in French-ruled Mali, the hero is a young teacher who plays the white man's idea of a good black in order to advance his career. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | The birth -- Diagaramba -- First confrontation -- The beginning of a career -- Where the calamities of some... -- The storm breaks -- The count's messenger -- The trial -- The donkey who drank honey -- Romo's son and beautiful pugubila -- The death of a great chief and what came of it -- The ambush -- The calamitous bird's egg -- A cumbersome turban -- Where each gets his due -- The dream of the Fulbe shepherdess -- Pretty much in the lion's jaw -- Where Wangrin is off once again to a good start -- A profitable pledge -- The reconversion -- An elephant's tale -- A disquieting arrival -- Pretty doe of the markets -- Two birds with one stone -- A narrow escape -- ... In which Romo keeps his promise... and Wangrin his -- A souvenir "crafted by Wangrin" -- First warning: the Hausa geomancer -- Madame white-white -- Second and third warnings: a fatal oversight and the sacred python -- Madame "good offices" -- An irreparable loss -- Last warning: the dove with a black ring circling half her neck -- Philosopher tramp -- The three bloods and death -- Adieu. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm38924382 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-253-33429-9 978-0-253-21226-9 0-253-33429-2 0-253-21226-X |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-272). |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.008101279.9 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780253334299 9780253212269 0253334292 025321226X |
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