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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This was a mildly interesting, but superficial collection of short stories primarily about a variety of Sudanese girls and young women who have emigrated to the UK and Scotland. Included in this collection is "The Museum", which won the 2000 Caine Prize for African Writing, also known as the "African Booker", which is given to the best short story of the year. This story, about a Sudanese young woman studying for her master's degree in Aberdeen who "befriends" a shy but sensitive local classmate, was ultimately disappointing despite a promising beginning, which can be said for the majority of the other stories in this collection. ( ) I started reding this in Gloria Jean's cafe in the Afra shopping mall in Khartoum and finnished it five days later in Failidos Castle in Gonder. Most of the stories are about migration between the Middle East and the West. When I got back to Khartoum after an agonising month in visa exile I read two of the stories, 'Coloured Lights' and 'Something Blue' with a group of rather privilaged Sudanese girls I don't so much teach as hang out with evry sunday night. The last two stories, 'Radia's Carpet' and
Islamic-informed writing has contributed in recent years to rethinking such notions as resistance, modernity and gender, but it has rarely contributed anything that could be critically acclaimed to the literary scene. Leila Aboulela, a young Sudanese novelist, is setting the record straight. Her novel, The Translator, and short stories, Coloured Lights -- written in English and published in Scotland -- give a taste of what it is like to be a brilliant writer with a sophisticated commitment to an Islamic worldview. To say this does not mean that Aboulela deals only with "Islamically correct" characters. There are pork-eating and whiskey-drinking Muslims in her fiction; what makes her writing "Islamic" is not religious correctness or didacticism. Rather, it is a certain narrative logic where faith and rituals become moving modes of living. Premios
Coloured Lights is the first collection of short stories from the winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing 2000, and it includes the winning story The Museum. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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