LIBROS DEL AUTOR: steve chimombo

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  • Napolo and other poems
    Steve Chimombo
    This collection of verse contains poems from Malawi’s foremost writer, most of which were written in the 1970s. Poet, fiction writer, playwright, and children’s author Steve Bernard Miles Chimombo was born in Zomba, Malawi, and educated at the University of Malawi, the University of Wales, the University of Leeds, and Columbia University. Mythology and oral culture inform his p...
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    23,37 €

  • The Bird Boy’s Song
    Steve Chimombo
    The Bird Boy’s Song is a retelling of the common Malawian folk story. 'The Orphan and the Slave'. The story recounts a slave’s usurpation of his master’s place, which he enjoys for a short time, until he is unmasked. The author used modern storytelling techniques to dramatise this popular trickster tale.  ...
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    24,36 €

  • Malawian Oral Literature
    Steve Chimombo
    Malawian Oral Literature: The Aesthetics of Indigenous Arts The first edition of Malawian Oral Literature was seminal in the study of oral literature, giving a truly indigenous theoretical framework for the study of Malawi’s oral literature, which could be replicated for other Bantu language cultures. Despite the fact that the text was first published more than 30 years ago, th...
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    62,75 €

  • The Hyena Wears Darkness
    Steve Chimombo
    Some people often ignore the fact that writers respond to the HIV&AIDS pandemic by using it as a theme in their poetry, fiction, and plays. Steve Chimombo started recording the writers’ responses as early as 1990 and wrote ‘AIDS and the Writer’ in WASI: the magazine for the arts. The article reported the results of a poetry competition organized by the Ministry of Health on the...
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    32,28 €