1.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0260838

Titolo

Locally Interacting Systems and Their Application in Biology : Proceedings of the School-Seminar on Markov Processes in Biology, Held in Pushchino, Moscow Region, March, 1976 / edited by R. L. Dobrushin, V. I. Kryukov and A. L. Toom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : Springer, 1978

Descrizione fisica

xii, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

92B05 - General biology and biomathematics [MSC 2020]

92-XX - Biology and other natural sciences [MSC 2020]

00Bxx - Conference proceedings and collections of articles [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910817789303321

Autore

Mandishona Daniel <1959->

Titolo

White gods black demons / / Daniel Mandishona

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Avondale, Harare, : Weaver Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-86897-7

9786612868979

1-77922-123-1

1-77922-122-3

1-77922-101-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (118 p.)

Soggetti

Zimbabwean fiction (English)

Zimbabwean literature (English)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; About the Author; Contents; 1. Smoke and Ashes; 2. Cities of Dust; 3. Kaffir Corn; 4. A Wasted Land; 5. The Time of Locusts; 6. A Secret Sin; 7. Blunt Force Trauma; 8. Sugar; 9. A Dirty Game; 10. Butternut Soup; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Irony and humour have always been used to counter frustration, despair and to expose double standards. In these ten sharply polished stories, Mandishona explores the dark comedy that lies just beneath the surface of tragedy in Zimbabwean society in the last decade. His perceptions leave few untouched: politicians, new farmers, exiles, stranded queues and inflation that renders the currency worthless... Truth and morality are dispensable in a society where wealth is rewarded with respect, integrity marred by untruth, rumour displaces fact, and power is only interested in its own survival. Mandi