The Lieutenant of Kouta - Diabaté, Massa Makan
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The Lieutenant of Kouta is the first novel in Massa Makan Diabaté's award-winning trilogy. It tells the story, part tragicomic and part hagiographic, of an African lieutenant in the French Army who returns as a decorated hero from the battlefields of World War II to the town of Kouta. The novel offers a rich and nuanced representation of Mali on the brink of independence in the late 1950s; it is a tapestry of traditional Mandinka society and the French colonial apparatus, illustrating the dynamic interplay between the two. This text is, ultimately, a story of a man's transformation coinciding with that of his country.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The Lieutenant of Kouta is the first novel in Massa Makan Diabaté's award-winning trilogy. It tells the story, part tragicomic and part hagiographic, of an African lieutenant in the French Army who returns as a decorated hero from the battlefields of World War II to the town of Kouta. The novel offers a rich and nuanced representation of Mali on the brink of independence in the late 1950s; it is a tapestry of traditional Mandinka society and the French colonial apparatus, illustrating the dynamic interplay between the two. This text is, ultimately, a story of a man's transformation coinciding with that of his country.
Autorenporträt
Massa Makan Diabaté (1938-1988) was a Malian author and griot. His trilogy of novels--Le lieutenant de Kouta, Le coiffeur de Kouta, and Le boucher de Kouta--won the 1987 Grand prix international de la Fondation Léopold Sédar Senghor. Shane Auerbach is a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a visiting instructor at Carleton College. His research focuses on microeconomic theory and industrial organization. David Yost received his PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His short stories have appeared in more than thirty magazines, including Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and The Sun, and he is an editor of the anthology Dispatches from the Classroom: Graduate Students on Creative Writing Pedagogy.