Une si longue lettre is a semi-autobiographical Fiction originally written in French by the Senegalese writer Mariama Ba. Its theme is the condition of women in Western African society. The Fiction is often used in literature classes focusing on women's roles in post-colonial Africa.
“The ghosts of Cultural Revolution have never gone. From now, we start smelling of the suffocation again, deepening and closing.”
In the period of Cultural Revolution, a group of students who love music and art founded an art and cultural propaganda team to pursue their dream of revolution. They had great passion for changing the world; however, the horror, humiliation, and depression followed by the Cultural Revolution made them feel confused and fearful. This is the first episode of the writer’s Cultural Revolution Trilogy.
“Stars Through the Soul” was mainly created during the period from 1998 to 1999. At the turn of the century, this book vividly presents the Taiwanese spirit of drifting souls of the time. Based on “strolling” and “drifting”, two typical characters in the society of immigration, and combine Ulysses image as the inner tone, the poems showed the life of common people. For example, Dihua Street, minced pork rice and paddy field are such symbols we can find in the work. This old-kind strong love is the way the author manipulated to say good-bye to the 20th century.
The book collects 17 untypical monologues. Through writing, the everyday scenery of words and the faces of family and friends thus can be settled. The author picked and sewed up those fragments in her life. For her, the things that can’t be settled at the time won’t be settled forever. Therefore, those things can’t be settled transformed into words and turn into life in her writing.
Jennifer Klinec is fearless. In her thirties, she abandons her bland corporate job to launch a cooking school from her London apartment and travel the world in search of delicious recipes and obscure culinary traditions. Her journey takes her to Iran, where she seeks out a local woman to learn the secrets of Persian cuisine.
A rising scourge to England’s social peace and multiculturalism, the English Defence League (EDL) has violently protested against Islam since its inception. In the fantastically daring Angry White People, Hsiao-Hung Pai follows a group of individuals who got caught up in the wave of far-right street movements that began in 2009. Pai investigated the rise of the EDL and other extremist organizations, falling in with several of their members and observing their day-to-day lives.
