Margaret Laurence
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English
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Best known for her novels about the Canadian prairie, Margaret Laurence began her career writing about West Africa. Based on her experience living with her husband on the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in the years just before independence, This Side Jordan confronts issues of race relations, sexism, and colonial exploitation.
This lyrical, vivid novel addresses all of the tensions of the time: the excitement, anticipation, and dread felt by both the Africans...
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English
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Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland-one of Canada's most beloved writers and one of Canada's most significant publishers-enjoyed an unusual rapport. In this collection of annotated letters, readers gain rare insight into the private side of these literary icons. Their correspondence reveals a professional relationship that evolved into deep friendship over a period of enormous cultural change. Both were committed to the idea of Canadian writing;...
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Français
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Ghana, 1956. Nous sommes à la veille de l'indépendance. Nathaniel Amegbe est professeur dans une école ghanéenne plutt médiocre. Johnnie Kestoe est comptable dans une firme textile britannique à Accra. Les deux hommes s'affronteront autour de la question de l'«africanisation», cette politique de passation des responsabilités entre Britanniques et Ghanéens.
De l'autre cté du Jourdain est le premier roman de Margaret Laurence, cette matriarche...