The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison Jack Mapanje
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The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison
The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison
Zusammenfassung
Formerly Head of English at the University of Malawi, Mapanje was arrested and imprisoned without trial for four years. In these poems of power and unflinching description, he condemns a brutal regime. Today, living in England, he celebrates the hope kept alive by those who fight for human rights.
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Über Jack Mapanje
Jack Mapange was born of Yao and Nyanja parents in Kadango Village, Mangochi District, in southern Malawi. He went to school at Kadango, Chikwana Mission, and Zomba Catholic Secondary School. He has a B.A. degree and a diploma in Education from the University of London. In 1975 he joined the staff of the Department of English at Chancellor College, University of Malawi, as a lecturer, before working as a research student in linguistics at University College, London in the early 1980s. 'Of Chameleons and Gods' received the Rotterdam International Poetry Award in 1988. Mapanje was arrested soon after this book was banned in Malawi. He was imprisoned in Malawi and detained without Charge or Trial from September 1987 to May 1991. His second volume of Poetry, 'The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison', written while he was detained, was published by Heinemann in 1993.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
AcknowledgementsPrologueAnother Fools' Day Homes InOut of BoundsChattering WagtailsThe Release and Other Curious SightsGlossary
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GOR003250718
9780435911980
0435911988
The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison Jack Mapanje
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Pearson Education Limited
19930827
192
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