The conscript : a novel of Libya's anticolonial war / by Gebreyesus Hailu ; translated from the Tigrinya by Ghirmai Negash ; introduction by Laura Chrisman.

By:

Hailu, Gebreyesus, 1909-1993 [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Tigrinya Series: Modern African writingPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (64 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780821444450
082144445X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Conscript.DDC classification:

892.833 23

LOC classification:

PJ9111.9.H35 C6613 2012x

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Introduction by Laura Chrisman -- Preface to the Tigrinya edition -- A portrait of youth -- The departure from Asmara -- Deep in the wilderness -- The thirst of death.

Summary: Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception and critical appraisal of African literature. The Conscript depicts, with irony and controlled anger, the staggering experiences of the Eritrean ascari, soldiers conscripted to fight in Libya by the Italian colonial army against the nationalist Libyan forces fighting for their freedom from Italy's colonial rule. Anticipating midcentury thinker.

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"First edition (in Tigrinya), Pietro Silla Printing Press, Asmara ([1927], 1950)."

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction by Laura Chrisman -- Preface to the Tigrinya edition -- A portrait of youth -- The departure from Asmara -- Deep in the wilderness -- The thirst of death.

Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception and critical appraisal of African literature. The Conscript depicts, with irony and controlled anger, the staggering experiences of the Eritrean ascari, soldiers conscripted to fight in Libya by the Italian colonial army against the nationalist Libyan forces fighting for their freedom from Italy's colonial rule. Anticipating midcentury thinker.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050