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Jack Mapanje Libri

    25 marzo 1944

    Jack Mapanje è un poeta malawiano la cui opera approfondisce le intricate connessioni tra linguaggio, potere e società. La sua poesia è celebrata per la sua profondità intellettuale e il suo esame satirico delle realtà politiche e sociali. Mapanje fonde magistralmente forme africane tradizionali con tecniche moderne, creando una voce letteraria distintiva. La sua scrittura esplora spesso temi di identità, redenzione e la ricerca della verità in contesti oppressivi.

    Of chameleons and Gods
    Greetings from Grandpa
    Beasts of Nalunga
    The Last of the Sweet Bananas
    And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night

    • And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night

      • 435pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura
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      A powerful contribution to the genre of the prison memoir in Africa. Jack Mapanje presents the moving account of a poet's imprisonment by the state, his struggle to probe the hidden motives for this arrest and his attempt to provide an unforgettable record of the architecture of imprisonment and the perpetual struggle between the forces of truth and those of naked power. In 1987, Mapanje was arrested by the Malawian secret police and imprisoned without charge until 1991. His memoir represents a retrospective attempt to explain the cause and terms of his imprisonment.

      And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night

    • The Last of the Sweet Bananas

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      Because he was a radical poet, Jack Mapanje was imprisoned without trial or charge by the dictator Hastings Banda of Malawi for nearly four years. The themes of his poetry range from the search for a sense of dignity and integrity under a repressive regime, incarceration, release from prison, exile and return to Africa.

      The Last of the Sweet Bananas

    • Beasts of Nalunga

      • 64pagine
      • 3 ore di lettura
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      Forty years after his country's independence from the British, Jack Mapanje has returned to his concern for ordinary people in Africa and in the world at large. Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.

      Beasts of Nalunga

    • Greetings from Grandpa

      • 80pagine
      • 3 ore di lettura

      Mapanje was imprisoned by Malawi's dictator Hastings Banda for nearly four years, chronicling his prison experiences in his previous books. Now he returns to Africa.

      Greetings from Grandpa

    • Of chameleons and Gods

      Die Gedichte im hier vorliegenden Band sind zwischen 1971 und 1981 entstanden. 1981 wurden sie in Großbritannien veröffentlicht und 1985 vermutlich nach Intervention in höheren Kreisen in Malawi verboten. Im September 1987 wurde Jack Mapanje ohne Angabe von Gründen, ohne Anklage und ohne Prozess festgenommen und im Gefängnis von Mikuyu inhaftiert. Zahlreiche internationale Appelle renommierter Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller, darunter Harold Pinter, Wole Soyinka und Susan Sontag, weltweite Aktionen des PEN-Clubs, Interventionen auf höchster Ebene sowie Tausende Postkarten und Unterschriftenlisten von Menschen, die sich weltweit gegen seine Inhaftierung aussprachen, konnten schließlich im Mai 1991 zu Mapanjes Freilassung beitragen. Seither lebt Jack Mapanje in Großbritannien, wo er an der Universität Newcastle-on-Tyne als Linguist mit den Schwerpunkten Gefängnisliteratur und mündliche afrikanische Literaturtradition unterrichtet.

      Of chameleons and Gods