As She Was Discovering Tigony
Published on 1. January 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
262 pages
978-1-61186-209-6 (ISBN)
Description
Dorcas Keurleonan-Moricet is a brilliant white geophysicist posted on assignment in Africa. She falls in love with a young African man, Segue 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-Keurleonan-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.
Reviews / Votes
"In this complex narrative, one of Africa's most inventive and original novelists explores critical social and ethical issues that have been made relevant by the expansion of global capital. By weaving themes of sexual love, social justice, and capitalist exploitation, Bhely-Quenum probes the question of who has a right to discover, share, control, and ultimately benefit from Africa's wealth."-Phyllis Taoua, associate professor of French, University of Arizona
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Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61186-209-6 (9781611862096)
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Olympe Bhely-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.
Content
Foreword - Kenneth Harrow
As She Was Discovering Tigony
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
As She Was Discovering Tigony
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48