| As She Was Discovering Tigony Contributor(s): Bhêly-Quenum, Olympe (Author) |
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ISBN: 1611862094 ISBN-13: 9781611862096 Publisher: Michigan State University Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2015041933 |
| Series: African Humanities and the Arts |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 274 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dorcas Keurl onan-Moricet is a brilliant white geophysicist posted on assignment in Africa. She falls in love with a young African man, S gu n'Di, and enters into an extramarital affair with him. In her professional work, she discovers deposits of minerals of inestimable worth. Reading the current age of globalization and neoliberalism as one in which the riches of Africa are again being cynically exploited by multinational companies--including her own--Keurl onan-Moricet's views and her life gradually change. As the popular resistance against the dictatorial regime in power grows, she comes to play a key role in the unfolding political drama. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bhely-Quenum, Olympe: - Olympe Bhèly-Quenum has been a professor, international civil servant, journalist, anthropologist, sociologist and researcher, literary critic, and writer. His novels and short stories, originally written in French, have been translated into English, German, Slovene, Czech, and Greek. |