english literature

African Short Stories Prize Short List

Posted on August 27, 2024August 20, 2024 by Bee Lehman

five portrait images of Caine short list authors This year’s short list for the Caine Prize for African Writing is rather phenomenal. Here’s the list with access to most of the stories full text:

Tryphena Yeboah (Ghana) for ‘The Dishwashing Women’, Narrative Magazine (Fall 2022) – magazine website
Nadia Davids (South Africa) for ‘Bridling’, The Georgia Review (2023) – magazine website
Samuel Kolawole (Nigeria) for ‘Adjustment of Status’, New England Review, Vol. 44, #3 (Summer
2023) – pdf of story from Project Muse
Uche Okonkwo (Nigeria) for ‘Animals’, ZYZZYVA (2024) – magazine website
Pemi Aguda (Nigeria) for ‘Breastmilk’, One Story, Issue #227 (2021) – excerpt on magazine website

The Judges–pictured below–have released a few statements about the submissions and a few of their thoughts on the range in the official press release.

five portraits of judges for 2024 Caine Short Story prize

As a head’s up, next is the Caine Prize 25th anniversary. There should be some exciting events!

Cheers,

Bee

New publication by Nick Paige from the French Department

Posted on March 4, 2021March 8, 2021 by Claude Potts

Check out this new book by Department of French faculty member Nicholas Paige, available in print and as an ebook through the online catalog.

From introduction:

“This book is about the evolution of French and to a lesser degree English novels – by which I mean French- and English-language novels – from 1601 to 1830. And while evolution is very much at the center of my preoccupations, I do not offer a “story” about that evolution. There is no plot, as we might want if we thought of the novel moving forward, perhaps from birth, episode by episode, toward a resolution, some happy state of stability – as if, in other words, the novel’s own history could be made into a kind of novel.”

“In lieu of a story, Technologies of the Novel offers a quantitative account of the ceaseless yet patterned flux of the novel system over these twenty-three decades.”

“Technologies of the Novel is, then, digital and distant; but it is most certainly not antianalogue or anticlose.”

New Books in Literature

Posted on March 15, 2018March 2, 2018 by Literatures at the Library

With every new month comes new books being published—and added to our library collection! This month’s haul includes criticism, poetry, prose, and much more: