The Knight and His Shadow
(Part of the African Humanities and the Arts (AHA) Series)
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A brilliant tour de force, The Knight and His Shadow tells the tale of Lat-Sukab 's quest to find his former lover, Khadidja, who writes him to "come before it's too late." As Lat-Sukab recounts his past with Khadidja, reality shapeshifts and takes on a dreamlike quality. He describes how Khadidja is hired by a wealthy stranger to sit before an open door and tell stories into an uncertain darkness, unable to see the person to whom she speaks. Like Lat-Sukab and Khadidja, the reader feels farther from home with every page, as the world turns and morphs. With those shifts, the symbolic order, the basis of meaning and sanity, begins to tremble. Postmodernist sensibilities meet postcolonial concerns in this lyrical novel from a master of Senegalese literature.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1611861535
ISBN13:9781611861532
Release Date:January 2015
Publisher:Michigan State University Press
Length:204 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"
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