Namwali Serpell
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cassandra Williams is twelve, and her little brother Wayne is seven. One day, when they're alone together, an accident happens and Wayne is lost forever. Or so it seems. Though his body is never recovered, their mother, unable to give up hope, launches an organization dedicated to missing children. Their father simply leaves, starts another family somewhere else. As C grows older, she sees her brother everywhere: in coffee shops, airplane aisles,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"If evolutionary biologists, ethical philosophers, and social media gurus are to be believed, the face is the basis for what we call 'humanity.' The face is considered the source of identity, truth, beauty, authenticity, and empathy. It underlies our ideas about what constitutes a human, how we relate emotionally, what is pleasing to the eye, and how we ought to treat each other. But all of this rests on a specific image of the face. We might call...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
566 pages : genealogical table ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man's greatest nemesis. The tale? A playful panorama of history, fairytale, romance and science fiction. The moral? To err is human.
1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 393 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"What is the relationship between literature's capacity to unsettle, perplex, and bewilder us, and literature's ethical value? To revive this question, C. Namwali Serpell proposes a return to William Empson's groundbreaking work, Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930), which contends that literary uncertainty is crucial to ethics because it pushes us beyond the limits of our own experience. Taking as case studies experimental novels by Thomas Pynchon, Toni...