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Aida EdemariamBiblio.com

The Wife's Tale

20189781538502488-2025HarperCollins 2018. Hardcover. New/New. Author: Aida EdemariamPublisher: HarperCollinsBinding: HardcoverISBN: 9781538502488Release Date: 2018Number Of Pages: 1Details: In this indelible memoir that recalls the life of her remarkable ninety-five-year old grandmother Guardian journalist Aida Edemariam tells the story of modern Ethiopia--a nation that would undergo a tumultuous transformation from feudalism to monarchy to Marxist revolution to democracy over the course of one century.Born in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar in about 1916 Yetemegnu was married and had given birth before she turned fifteen. As the daughter of a socially prominent man she also offered her husband a poor yet gifted student the opportunity to become an important religious leader.Over the next decades Yetemegnu would endure extraordinary trials: the death of some of her children; her husband's imprisonment; and the detention of one of her sons. She witnessed the Fascist invasion of Ethiopia and the subsequent resistance suffered Allied bombardment and exile from her city; lived through a bloody revolution and the nationalization of her land. She gained audiences with Emperor Haile Selassie I to argue for justice for her husband for revenge and for her children's security and fought court battles to defend her assets against powerful men. But sustained in part by her fierce belief in the Virgin Mary and in Orthodox Christianity Yetemegnu survived. She even learned to read in her sixties and eventually made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.Told in Yetemegnu's enthralling voice and filled with a vivid cast of characters--emperors and empresses priests and scholars monks and nuns archbishops and slaves Marxist revolutionaries and wartime double agents--The Wife's Tale introduces a woman both imperious and vulnerable; a mother widow and businesswoman whose deep faith and numerous travails never quashed her love of laughter mischief and dancing; a fighter whose life was shaped by direct contact with the volatile events that transformed her nation.An intimate memoir that offers a panoramic view of Ethiopia's recent history The Wife's Tale takes us deep into the landscape rituals social classes and culture of this ancient often mischaracterized richly complex and unforgettable land--and into the heart of one indomitable woman. HarperCollins hardcover

Aida Levy-HussenBiblio.com

How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation

20161479890944NYU Press 2016. New/New. Author: Aida Levy-HussenPublisher: NYU PressISBN: 9781479890941Release Date: 2016Languages: EnglishBinding: HardcoverNumber Of Pages: 224Details: Editorial Reviews Review ""How to Read African American Literatureis a distinctive richly-argued book about the political implications of contemporary readings of slavery in African American historical fiction. Graceful and sophisticated it utilizes critical paradigms ranging from psychoanalysis to queer theory and provides cutting-edge theories on the reading and writing of African American literary history. A bold and innovative bookHow To Read African American Literaturemakes a case for a hermeneutics by which we can make sense of how contemporary narratives of slavery are being consumed today."" -- Gene Jarrettauthor of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature ""Beautifully-written and insightfulHow to Read African American Literaturereinvigorates black feminist critique andqueer literary studies. AidaLevy-Hussens vision of the field of African Americanist literary criticism and its problems is startlingly lucid precise and attentive to the nuances of its various texts both fictive and scholarly. A model of critical writing and of how to read."" -- Darieck Scottauthor of Extravagant Abjection: Blackness Power and Sexuality in the African American Literary ""Throughout How to Read African American Literature Levy-Hussen performs critical maneuvers that support more expansive interpretations including reversals or counters in which she occupies the other position to resist fixity and to acknowledge foremost the role of desire in relation to the pastLevy-Hussens critical enterprise liberates African American literature from perpetuating impositions and entrenched paths by raising questions and modeling strategies that will lead the field forward in promising new directions."" ― MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States About the Author Aida Levy-Hussen is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Michigan. She is the author of How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation 2016 and co-editor of The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture 2016 NYU Press hardcover

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