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Blue White Red : a Novel /
This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begin...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Francés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2013
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| Series: | Global African voices.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki's footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented immigrants. After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is deported. This is a novel of postcolonial Africa, where young people born into poverty dream of making it big in the cities of their former colonial masters. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780253007940 0253007941 |