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| Wole Soyinka - Ake: The Years of Childhood |
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AKE is the first volume of Wole Soyinka's acclaimed series of autobiographical works. This vivid, exuberant book is Soyinka's record of his childhood in colonial Nigeria. In rich and evocative prose he tells the tales of his schooldays and adventures in a captivating narrative, sometimes recollectin ...
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$10.00 - $10.00
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| Brent Staples - Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White |
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'Eloquent and skillfully crafted...Staples's descriptions have a breathtaking brilliance...He puts flesh and blood on the people who are being signified about during this nasty and cold-hearted period of our history and explores their conditions in depth, bringing insights that only an outsider-insi ...
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$12.00 - $12.00
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| Maxine Kingston - The Woman Warrior China Men |
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Maxine Hong Kingston writes about the bonds as well as the conflicts between women in Chinese-American culture--how the traditional Asian way of life is transformed in the new world for better and for worse. In the process, Kingston tells the story of her life, her coming of age, and her assimilatio ...
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$18.00 - $18.00
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