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1 online resource (xi, 270 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
This eye-opening personal history tells the story of an American college professor's twenty-year engagement with a thriving Africa rarely encountered by Western visitors, including an extraordinary connection to poets across the continent. At once adventurous, spiritual, political, dreamlike, and humorous, Joining Africa is a unique documentary of a journey through the continent, including an intense five-year encounter with economically struggling but culturally fertile Eritrea. The Africa presented here is neither a postcolonial study nor an exotic tourist destination. It is rich with the voices of its people, whose languages, Cantalupo argues, have greater potential to effect change than any NGO or high-profile celebrity. In vibrant prose, Cantalupo's book extends a stirring invitation to reevaluate how we engage-both individually and collectively-with this remarkable part of the world. |
| Contents |
Preface: Light the Lights; Chapter One: From the Other Direction; Chapter Two: Connection; Chapter Three: Both Sides; Chapter Four: The Journey Provided; Chapter Five: Interpretation; Chapter Six: Rome's Rome; Chapter Seven: Where a Camel Roams; Chapter Eight: I Carved a Dream; Chapter Nine: Red Sea Foam; Chapter Ten: I Wrestled the Devil; Chapter Eleven: A Draw; Chapter Twelve: A Medallion; Chapter Thirteen: The Poem; Epilogue: I Came to Carthage; Notes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cantalupo, Charles, 1951- -- Travel -- Eritrea.
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Cantalupo, Charles, 1951- |
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Travel. |
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Eritrea. |
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Eritrea -- Description and travel.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cantalupo, Charles, 1951- Joining Africa. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2012 9781611860368 (DLC) 2011029503 (OCoLC)743432346 |
| ISBN |
1609173139 (electronic book) |
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9781609173135 (electronic book) |
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9781628950861 (electronic book) |
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1628950862 (electronic book) |
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9781628960860 (electronic book) |
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1628960868 (electronic book) |
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9781611860368 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1611860369 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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