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ENCOUNTERING NURUDDIN FARAH
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NURUDDIN FARAH HASSAN is a Somali-born writer. What a contradiction! He comes from a nomadic tradition with a inch oral literary history. At the time of his birth, Somalia was still divided by different colonial countries. There was British Somaliland to the northi ajd Somalia, m the south under Italian administration. He was educated in Ethiopia where he grew up in Kallafo, Ogaden, a region then controlled by Ethiopia.
Farah, after completing secondary school eventually traveled to In...
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For Nuruddin Farah.
World Literature Today
; ... out loud if it could really have been written by a man. She must have been kept wondering ever since by so many Farah women. In Maps, his 1986 novel, there is Misra, the Ethiopian maid who raises Askar, the Somali protagonist, a refugee from the 1977-78 war ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Fiction from Africa : Blood ties.(Review)
The Economist (US)
; ... culminates in the discovery by the central character, Kalaman, that his mother conceived him after a gang rape. As television news-watchers will recall, the Somali nation disintegrated in violence early in the 1990s. Even though scattered now across the world ...
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(book review)
World Literature Today
; ... group of three-dimensional female characters, but then takes on the much trickier question of Farah's metaphorical use of women. Maps, a novel in which not one but two mother-figures die birthing the hero, gives them pause, but they finally decide that it is ...
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Selected Bibliography (Nuruddin Farah).
World Literature Today
; ... Press, 1992. From a Crooked Rib. London: Heinemann, 1970. Gifts. Harare: Baobab Books, 1992; London: Serif Publishers, 1992. Maps. London: Picador, 1986; New York, Pantheon, 1986. A Naked Needle. London: Heinemann, 1976. Sardines. London: Allison & Busby ...
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History's Illuminated Prints: Negative Power in Nuruddin Farah's Close Sesame.
World Literature Today
; ... and furniture, clocks and currents, lizards and beached whales in Sardines, the metaphors of truncation and dismemberment in Maps-the movement is an outwardly expansive, multidirectional one, a splintering of tropes into antinomy and contradiction, parallelism ...
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