Word: africas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia are not the only regions travelers need to watch...
...unveil revelation. In the nonfiction in this volume, it is Gordimer's practice to reveal truths that are painfully obvious to most anybody. The subtitle of the volume is Notes from Our Century, and Gordimer makes a case study of historical progress out of her native South Africa, taking us from the world of apartheid through redemption to the post-apartheid era. But her words begin to sound false: not the falseness of lies, but of emotional untruth...
...spirit. The problem is, this is also the kind of truth that needs to be important to the writer of the kind of nonfiction which Gordimer attempts. It is almost pointless to write journalism about the future of literature, or about the evolution of a truly democratic South Africa, that does not somehow strike a new chord in the reader. Gordimer manages to cover the most emotionally intense period in her country's history in a way that is factually true, but emotionally false: she repeats the necessary mantras about transformation, progress and unity, without any real attempt...
...Hughes '01 experienced serious health problems while visiting Tunisia, in northern Africa...
Students planning to travel to nations in many parts of Africa, Asia and South America should consult a physician about getting fully immunized to infections common to that region, according to UHS director David S. Rosenthal...