The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore - An Epic in Three Cantos

About the author

SYLVIE KANDÉ (New York, NY) is an award-winning poet and scholar. She is the author of three poetic collections published by Gallimard. Gestuaire (poèmes), published in 2016, was short-listed for the Prix Kowalski des Lycéens, and received the Prix Louise Labé in 2017. Having launched the program of Francophone studies at NYU, she now teaches as an Africanist in the SUNY system. ALEXANDER DICKOW (Blacksburg, VA) is a poet, translator, and scholar, and an associate professor of French at Virginia Tech. His books include Trial Balloons and Appetites.

Summary

Sylvie Kande's neo-epic in three cantos is a double narrative combining today's tales of African migration to Europe on the one hand, with the legend of Abubakar II on the other: Abubakar, emperor of 14th-Century Mali, sailed West toward the new world, never to return.

Product details

• Authors: Sylvie Kande, Sylvie Kandé
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Languages: English, French
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780819580733
• ISBN: 978-0-8195-8073-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: Wesleyan Poetry; Wesleyan Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics