Mahmoudan Hawad

Broschiertes Buch

In the Net

Beschreibung

In the face of amnesia, how does one exist? In this poem, Hawad speaks directly to Azawad, a silent figure whose name designates a portion of Tuareg lands divided among five nation-states created in the 1960s.  

Autor

Hawad is Amajagh (Tuareg for “outsiders”). He is a poet and painter of the Sahara. Hawad writes in his own language, Tamajaght, which he transcribes in tifinagh, the Tuareg alphabet. The drama and resistance of the Tuareg people, of all people threatened with extinction, punctuates Hawad’s fictional universe. Christopher Wise is a professor of English at Western Washington University. For nearly three decades he has translated the work of Sahelian authors. HÉlÈne Claudot-Hawad is a French anthropologist and director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research. She is the author of numerous publications on the Tuareg world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 144g
• ISBN-13: 9781496229694
• ISBN-10: 149622969X
• Artikelnr.: 61382213