Selected fiction from the BU Libraries
By Night the Mountain Burns
by Juan-Tomás Avila Laurel
Available online
By Night the Mountain Burns recounts the narrator's childhood on a remote island off the West African coast, living with his mysterious grandfather, several mothers and no fathers.
El tambor
Fang - Folk Literature
Shadows of Your Black Memory
Set during the last years of Spanish rule in Equatorial Guinea, Shadows of Your Black Memory presents the voice of a young African man reflecting on his childhood.
The Gurugu Pledge
By Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
On Mount Gurugu, overlooking the Spanish enclave of Melilla on the North African coast, desperate migrants gather before attempting to scale the city's walls and gain asylum on European soil.
Africa39
Includes short story: Recaredo Silebo Boturu -- Mama's future
Mugar Library PL8011 .A47 2014
La Pesadilla de Obi
La Pesadilla de Obi is a satirical graphic novel about Teodoro 'Obi' Obiang, Equatorial Guinea’s president.
Freely Available Online
Selected Poetry
Ramblas : primer premio de poesia 12 de Octubre de 1990
by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
Mugar Stacks PQ8619.A85 R36 1994
Requiebros
by: Juan Balboa Boneke
Series: : Colección Poesía (Malabo, Bioko Norte, Equatorial Guinea); 3.
About African Literature
An Introduction to the Literature of Equatorial Guinea by
Spain's only former colony in sub-Saharan Africa, Equatorial Guinea is home to a literature of transition--songs of freedom in which authors reflect on their identity within the context of recent colonialism and dictatorship. An Introduction to the Literature of Equatorial Guinea is the first book-length critical study of this literature, a multigenre analysis encompassing fifty years of poetry, drama, essays, and prose fiction. Both resident and exiled authors offer insights into the impact of colonialism and dictatorship under Spanish rule and consider the fruits of "independence" under the regimes of Francisco Mac#65533;as Nguema and Teodoro Obiang Nguema. Examining these works from the perspective of postcolonial theory, Marvin A. Lewis shows how writings from Equatorial Guinea depict the clash of traditional and European cultures and reflect a dictatorship that produced poverty, misery, and oppression. He assesses with particular care the impact of the Mac#65533;as reafricanization process and its manifestations in literature. In showing how the views of the nation correspond and diverge in works of writers such as Maria Nsue Angue, Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, and Juan Tom#65533;s #65533;vila Laurel, Lewis brings to light artists who articulate their concerns in Spanish but are African in their souls. In analyzing the works of both renowned and emerging writers, he marks the themes that contribute to the formation of national identity: Hispanic heritage, the myth of Bantu unity, "bonding in adversity" during the Nguema regime, and the Equatoguinean diaspora. Lewis provides an accessible introduction to the work of central writers in a new area of literary study and includes the most exhaustive and up-to-date bibliography available on the subject. His is a groundbreaking work that broadens our understanding of African literature and will be the bedrock for future studies of this Hispanic corner of Africa.
Location: Available Online and Mugar Library PQ8617.E38 L49 2007ISBN: 9780826217134Publication Date: 2007-07-11
Teaching the African Novel by
What is the African novel, and how should it be taught? The twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of information and ideas about the diverse regions, peoples, nations, languages, and writers of the African continent. Topics include Ng'g? wa Thiong'o's favoring of indigenous languages and literary traditions over European; the special place of Marxism in African letters;the influence of Frantz Fanon; women writers and the sub-Saharan novel;the Maghrebian novel;the novel and the griot epic in the Sahel;Islam in the West African novel;novels in Spanish from Equatorial Guinea;apartheid and postapartheid fiction;African writers in the diaspora;globalization in East African fiction; teaching Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart to students in different countries;the Onitsha market romance. The volume editor, Gaurav Desai, writes, "The point of the volume is to encourage a reading of Africa that is sensitive to its history of colonization but at the same time responsive to its present multiracial and multicultural condition."
Location: Mugar Library PL8010.6 .T43 2009ISBN: 1603290389Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Digital Collections
- Digitalia Hispanica (BU login required)Search "Equatorial Guinea" in full-text to find a variety of results. ABOUT: Digitalia Hispánica is a Spanish e-book platform that offers books from Spain, Latin America, the Caribbean, and some Africa, on subjects such as literature, literary criticism, linguistics, humanities, and social sciences.
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