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1) Kibogo
Author
Language
English
Description
"In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancient Rwandan beliefs and the missionaries determined to replace them with European Christianity. When a rogue priest is defrocked for fusing the gospels with the martyrdom of Kibogo, a fierce clash of cults ensues. Swirling with the heady smell of wet earth and flashes of acerbic humor, Mukasonga brings to life the vital mythologies that imbue the Rwandan...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rooted in a Chicana/Latina/indigenous geographic and cultural sensibility, the stories in flesh to bone are concerned with borders of all kinds--particularly the physical borders of the American Southwest-- and the potential for transformation and healing. The nine stories in write and rewrite myth from a woman's of view, as they tell stories of women and children whose lives are shaped by the social, political, ecological, and economic disruption...
3) Afterlives
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister Afiya abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza, too, is back from the war. He was not stolen but sold into service, where he became the protégé of an officer whose special interest has left him literally scarred for life. With nothing...
4) Paradise
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of a 12-year-old African boy sold into slavery by his father to pay off a debt. The setting is East Africa, a place of trade caravans, tribal warfare and the beginnings of European colonization.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
202 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the acclaimed stop-motion animated film of the same name, this graphic novel follows Spotted Fawn as she travels through her own family history to reignite her connection to her people and the land.
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (5 hr., 33 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Opal City: known for free mining, endless desert and, to a select few, vampires. This remote desert mining town is the last colonial stronghold for vampires and when the King Vampire arrives with plans to take over the land and kidnap locals for their blood, it's up to two Aboriginal renegades, Tyson and Shanika, to stop him and end the 230 year war. But how can a reckless 'semi alcoholic' and a teenaged orphan destroy an entire vampire...
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