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The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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| Added by: stoker | Karma: 5556.59 | Audiobooks | 17 June 2011 |
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 The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
For most of his adult life, Bryson has made his home in the U.K, yet he actually entered the world in 1951 as part of America's postwar baby boom and spent his formative years in Des Moines, Iowa. Bryson wistfully recounts a childhood of innocence and optimism, a magical point in time when a distinct sense of regional and community identity briefly—but blissfully—coexisted with fledgling technology and modern convenience. Narrating, Bryson skillfully wields his amorphous accent—somehow neither fully British nor Midwestern—to project a genial and entertaining tour guide of lost Americana.
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| Tags: mdash, Bryson, skillfully, wields, accent, Thunderbolt, Times, Narrating, amorphous |
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Ngugi's Novels And African History: Narrating the Nation
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| Added by: englishcology | Karma: 4552.52 | Non-Fiction » Science literature | 10 May 2010 |
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 Ngugi's Novels And African History: Narrating the Nation
Ngugi’s entire novelistic output in examined, including his major works, The River Between, A Grain of Wheat, Petals of Blood and Matigari. Through a critique of these works, Ngugi’s radical and sometimes ambivalent attitude towards independence (Uhuru) and the manufacturing of nationhood are assessed. Ogude also looks at the wider notion of the distinct boundaries between history and fiction which postcolonial literatures have sought to question. |
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