4 Flashcards
Atsumori recounts the story of a young warrior and flute player killed in a battle between the Heike and Genji in the late 12th century.
Atsumori
The chief concern of the four Makioka sisters is finding a suitable husband for the third sister, Yukiko, a woman of traditional beliefs who has rejected …
The Makioka Sisters
explores themes of reincarnation, karma, and the clash between tradition and modernity in Japan. The four novels follow the life and possible rebirths of a man, seen through the eyes of his friend Shigekuni Honda, who believes they are meeting successive incarnations of his deceased school friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. The story unfolds across different time periods, depicting Kiyoaki in various roles – a young aristocrat, a political fanatic, a Thai princess, and an orphaned child – as Honda witnesses their fates and tries to save them from early deaths,
The Sea of Fertility - yukio Mishima
It is a tragic, vividly painted story of life in postwar Japan. The narrator is Kazuko, a young woman born to gentility but now impoverished. Though she wears Western clothes, her outlook is Japanese; her life is static, and she recognizes that she is spiritually empty
The Setting Sun - Ozamu Dazai
Young Otama is forced by poverty to become a moneylender’s mistress. A neighborhood student, Okada, notices her beauty. Historically speaking, the relationship women and men was an eye opener on the period at stake. The author specifies the story took place in 1880.
The wild geese
tells the story of Soshu, an effete and handsome Buddhist priest whose hypocrisy and addiction to sensual pleasures lead him to carry on an affair with his own mother-in-law, even as he offers pious counseling to his parishioners.
The Buddha Tree - Fumio
Among his works are some prefer netties, the makio
Junichiro Tanizaki
a collection of eighteen poems or letters which attempt to convey the poet’s displeasing experiences in the Apartheid South Africa prison. The apartheid system in disfavor of the Blacks, seeks to entrench the Whites’ supremacy over the Blacks
Letters to Martha
is a seven-stanza poem that explores the themes of African culture, heritage, and identity. It reflects Senghor’s Négritude philosophy, which emphasizes the cultural and spiritual values of the Black world.
Totem
portrays the plight of children who are deprived of basic necessities and their inherent rights to play and be free.
Train journer
describes a phone call between a landlady and the speaker, who is black, about renting an apartment. The landlady is pleasant until she learns that the speaker is “African,” at which point she demands to know how “light” or “dark” the speaker’s skin is.
Telephone Conversation
a dialogue where a young poet questions a wise voice about the true nature of Africa. The poet recalls Africa as a land of …
Africa
Shows the eternal linkage of the living and the dead
Totem by leopald senghor
written in the first person and in the form of diary entries in two exercise books. It describes the relationship between French colonialists and native Cameroonians during the period of colonization from a Houseboy’s perspectives.
The Houseboy
follows the story of Okonkwo, a revered member of a native tribe, as his life is torn apart by the negative effects of colonialism, leaving him eventually dead by suicide.
Things fall apart
is the story of an Igbo man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for an education in Britain and
No longer at ease
the story is narrated by Dennis who is Father Drumont’s house-boy. The story revolves around Father Drumont who established a parish in Bomba, a small village in southern Cameroon. It tells about how he strives to convert the natives to Christianity and encourage monogamy.
The poor christ of bombay
In rural Kenya, two Gikuyu villages called Makuyu and Kameno sit on two ridges, divided by the Honia river. The villages are rivals and often antagonistic toward each other, but they are united by their dependence on the same river for water and agriculture.
The River Between
The story revolves around the impact a tape recording of the dead father of the main character has on his family in Morocco. The novel is part of the “African Writers Series” and was first published in 1962.
Heirs to the Past
main characters search for identity and morality, expressing contemporary anxieties about the future of Nigeria. The novel presents a tension between those who conform to the old colonial status quo and those who resist that status quo in favor of a renewed, authentic culture.
The Interpreters
