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Books of gold: October 2011
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A blog about books from all around the world, with an emphasis on everything postcolonial. Saturday, October 29, 2011. A Room of His Own' by Suniti Namjoshi. I just finished reading "Feminist Fables", a small book that elaborates on the most common fables from the point of view of women. I have already written about this little known author here. To show you how clever and yet so unpretentiously written they are, I'll report one of my favourites. A Room of His Own. Questo libro è stato tradotto, con il t...
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Books of gold: "Il paese dove non si muore mai" di Ornela Vorpsi
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A blog about books from all around the world, with an emphasis on everything postcolonial. Monday, December 17, 2012. Il paese dove non si muore mai" di Ornela Vorpsi. Pubblicato prima in Francia, ma in traduzione, nel 2004 e poi scelto da Einaudi, che ne ha pubblicato il manoscritto originale. Inserita tra i 35 migliori scrittori europei nell'antologia Best European Fiction. Il paese dove non si muore mai. Ne ha proprio una intitolata Il paese dove non si muore mai. Il Paese dove non si muore mai. Ho ap...
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Books of gold: January 2013
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A blog about books from all around the world, with an emphasis on everything postcolonial. Thursday, January 24, 2013. Annie John" by Jamaica Kincaid. Jamaica Kincaid reflects on the eternal tropes of colonizer/colonized in a clever way. She references. In italiano: "Anna delle Antille" di Jamaica Kincaid. Edito da DeAgostini, 1997. Pp176, € 9,30. Posted by Stefania - The Italian Backpacker. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Which ones of these recent Nobel Prize winners have you read? I Am Currently Reading.
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Books of gold: "Istanbul: Memoirs of a City" by Orhan Pamuk
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A blog about books from all around the world, with an emphasis on everything postcolonial. Friday, July 5, 2013. Istanbul: Memoirs of a City" by Orhan Pamuk. Pamuk writes about his childhood and adolescent years in a big and dusty house in an affluent neighbourhood of the city, Be ş. In italiano: "Istanbul. I Ricordi e la Città" di Orhan Pamuk. Edito da Einaudi, 2008. Pp384, €11,05. Posted by Stefania - The Italian Backpacker. July 5, 2013 at 4:11 PM. Ciao cara, quanto tempo che non scrivevi! Anche io ho...
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Books of gold: "Annie John" by Jamaica Kincaid
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A blog about books from all around the world, with an emphasis on everything postcolonial. Thursday, January 24, 2013. Annie John" by Jamaica Kincaid. Jamaica Kincaid reflects on the eternal tropes of colonizer/colonized in a clever way. She references. In italiano: "Anna delle Antille" di Jamaica Kincaid. Edito da DeAgostini, 1997. Pp176, € 9,30. Posted by Stefania - The Italian Backpacker. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Which ones of these recent Nobel Prize winners have you read? 296-297: The Dia...
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Books of gold: December 2011
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A blog about books from all around the world, with an emphasis on everything postcolonial. Tuesday, December 27, 2011. Elective Affinities" by Johann Wolfang von Goethe. When Italian students read "The Sorrows of Young Werther" they object that the plot is identical to Ugo Foscolo's "The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis", when it is in fact the opposite, the Italian writer having taken Goethe's Sturm und Drang. Posted by Stefania - The Italian Backpacker. Thursday, December 1, 2011. Shange’s poetry isn...
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Books of gold: "Cast me out if you will" by Lalithambika Antherjanam
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A blog about books from all around the world, with an emphasis on everything postcolonial. Wednesday, November 21, 2012. Cast me out if you will" by Lalithambika Antherjanam. An antherjan in a recent movie adaptation of Lalithambika's novel "Agnisakshi". Cast me out if you will. Stories and Memoir" by Lalithambika Antherjanam. Translated and edited by Krishnankutty, with a foreword by Meena Alexander. Published by The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1997, pp.188. Posted by Stefania - The Italian Backpacker.
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Books of gold: "Meatless Days by Sara Suleri
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A blog about books from all around the world, with an emphasis on everything postcolonial. Sunday, December 22, 2013. Meatless Days by Sara Suleri. Meatless Days" is overall an engaging read. It is not often that we hear about Pakistani women with this degree of without being sentimental. From her exile in the West, Sara Suleri tells us about her country with enthusiasm and the right doses of criticism. Posted by Stefania - The Italian Backpacker. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I Am Currently Reading.
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