Ethiopian Literature in Amharic
Author | : Thomas Leiper Kane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Amharic literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas Leiper Kane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Amharic literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Balashova, G.A. |
Publisher | : MeaBooks Inc |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2016-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1988391024 |
The Reader includes sample works of modern writers starting with the first story by Afewerk Ghebre Jesus written in 1908 up to the writings of the early 2000s, which continue Amharic literature in various genres. The Chrestomathy is supplemented with linguistic and cultural comments of lexical, grammatical and ethno-cultural nature. Short biographies of the writers are included. Ethiopian literature is justly considered young, though it is based on a very old cultural foundation. Its major benefit is the focus on an individual person displaying moral integrity and unity with the environment.
Author | : G.A. Balashova |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2016-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1988391032 |
The Reader includes sample works of modern writers starting with the first story by Afewerk Ghebre Jesus written in 1908 up to the writings of the early 2000s, which continue Amharic literature in various genres. The Chrestomathy is supplemented with linguistic and cultural comments of lexical, grammatical and ethno-cultural nature. Short biographies of the writers are included. Ethiopian literature is justly considered young, though it is based on a very old cultural foundation. Its major benefit is the focus on an individual person displaying moral integrity and unity with the environment.
Author | : Taddesse Adera |
Publisher | : Red Sea Press(NJ) |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
This collection, the first of its kind on Ethiopian literature, provides insights into a body of literature which had been marginalized more than other post-colonial literatures.
Author | : Mary-Jane Wagle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781599071176 |
Author | : Chris Beckett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Amharic poetry |
ISBN | : 9781784109479 |
Finalist for the 2021 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry.This is the very first anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit and heartache of a beautiful country and language. From folk and religious poems, warrior boasts, praises of women and kings and modern plumbing; through a flowering of literary poets in the twentieth century; right up to thirty of the most exciting contemporary Amharic poets working both inside and outside the country.These poems ask what it means to be Ethiopian today, part of a young fast-growing economy, heirs to the one African state which was never colonised, but beset by deep political, ethnic and moral problems.
Author | : Molvaer |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2023-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004660631 |
Author | : Nega Mezlekia |
Publisher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2015-04-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1466893249 |
Winner of the Governor General's Award A Library Journal Best Book of 2001 Part autobiography and part social history, Nega Mezlekia's Notes from the Hyena's Belly offers an unforgettable portrait of Ethiopia, and of Africa, during the 1970s and '80s, an era of civil war, widespread famine, and mass execution. "We children lived like the donkey," Mezlekia remembers, "careful not to wander off the beaten trail and end up in the hyena's belly." His memoir sheds light not only on the violence and disorder that beset his native country, but on the rich spiritual and cultural life of Ethiopia itself. Throughout, he portrays the careful divisions in dress, language, and culture between the Muslims and Christians of the Ethiopian landscape. Mezlekia also explores the struggle between western European interests and communist influences that caused the collapse of Ethiopia's social and political structure—and that forced him, at age 18, to join a guerrilla army. Through droughts, floods, imprisonment, and killing sprees at the hands of military juntas, Mezlekia survived, eventually emigrating to Canada. In Notes from the Hyena's Belly he bears witness to a time and place that few Westerners have understood.
Author | : Dawit Girma |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 3346036626 |
Scientific Study from the year 2019 in the subject Literature - Africa, , language: English, abstract: This research article attempts to uncover the literary activity in the 15th century Ethiopia. The general purpose of the study is surveying literary development in the period of Emperor Zara Yaqob, and specifically pays focus on the personal efforts and contributions of the King himself in the growth of literature in his reign. It also intends to endorse whether these texts qualify in literary features. Almost no researches are conducted on Zara Yaqob and his literary contribution, this fact is taken as inspirational point to do the study. Qualitative research method is applied, for the study is done on a text. The Emperor has collected men of letter and scholars in the court yard and highly encouraged them to have a huge engagement in literary activities. These scholars, like Abba Giorgis of Gassecca, wrote numerous books which are religious but have great literary value and qualities. The King has written more than ten books; most of them have religious thematic preoccupation but also have secular subjects. These are: Matsehafä Berhan; Matsehafä Milad; Egziabher Nagsä; Sebhatä Fequr; Matsehafä Sellassie; Matsehafä Bahrey; Tä’aqebo Mestir; Tomarä Tesebe’it; Kehedatä Säytan; Darsanä Malaekt; Ra’eyä Ta’amer; Melke’a Gubae, and Mangadä Samay. These texts are investigated out in content and literary value. In addition, he has produced hymns which are prepared in poetic form, and the lines are rhymed as rhymeisthemostfamiliarelementofpoetry; the hymns are constructed in end rhyme. In his hymns, figurative speeches especially simile and metaphor are well applied. The researcher has long realized potential value of the literary productions in the period of Zara Yaqob as source for the study of Ethiopian literature and history. The works are very important to study social, economic, historical, religious, and the political history of Ethiopia in addition to their literary values.
Author | : Abiola Irele |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 906 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : African literature |
ISBN | : 9780521594349 |
Featuring new perspectives on African and Caribbean literature, this History explores the scope of the literature (variety of languages, regions and genres); nature of composition; and complex relationship with African social and geo-political history. It comprehensively covers the field of African literature, defined by creative expression in Africa as well as the black diaspora. This major history of African literature will be an essential resource for specialists and students.