As She Was Discovering Tigony

Informationen zum Autor Olympe Bhêly-Quenum has been a professor, international civil servant, journalist, anthropologist, sociologist and researcher, literary critic, and writer. His novels and short stories, originally written in French, have been translated into English, German, Slovene, Czech, and Greek. Klappentext A brilliant white geophysicist posted on assignment in Africa falls in love and enters an extramarital sexual relationship with a young African man. In her professional life she encounters issues of globalization and neoliberalism at her multinational firm. As the popular resistance against the dictatorial regime in power grows, she comes to play a key role in the unfolding political drama. Zusammenfassung Dorcas Keurléonan-Moricet is a brilliant white geophysicist posted on assignment in Africa. Reading the current age of globalization and neoliberalism as one in which the riches of Africa are again being cynically exploited by multinational companies—including her own—Keurléonan-Moricet’s views and her life gradually change.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Olympe Bhaely-Quaenum, Olympe Bhely-Quenum, Olympe Bhêly-Quenum
• Mitarbeit: Tomi Adeaga (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Michigan state university pres
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9781611862096
• ISBN: 978-1-61186-209-6
• Seiten: 262
• Serien: African Humanities and the Art; African Humanities and the Art; African Humanities and the Arts
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur