Format:
Online-Ressource (195 p)
ISBN:
9780231172356
Series Statement:
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Content:
We all experience qualms and anxieties when we move from the known to the unknown. Though our fulfillment in life may depend on testing limits, our faintheartedness is a reminder of our need for security and our awareness of the risks of venturing into alien worlds. Evoking the hot, dust-filled Harmattan winds that blow from the Sahara to the Gulf of Guinea, this book creatively explores what it means to be buffeted by the unforeseen and the unknown. Celebrating the life-giving potential of people, places, and powers that lie beyond our established worlds, Harmattan connects existential vita
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Table of Contents; 1. Limitrophes; Show and Tell; A Place in the Bush; Allegories of the Wilderness; Within and Without Limits; The Top Five Regrets of the Dying; Life Is Elsewhere; Dark Soundings; On Not Being Rule Governed; Confronting One's Demons; Renata; Sentiments Limitrophes; The Faraway Tree; What Lies Beneath; Schrödinger's Cat; Notes; 2. Harmattan; Stories Happen; Thousands Bay; Persona Non Grata; Tom Lannon's Story; Cosmega; Sangbamba; Ezekiel's Story; Petra's Letter; No Condition Is Permanent; The School; Morowa; Night; After Fieldwork; Mistral
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231539050
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231172356
Additional Edition:
Print version Harmattan : A Philosophical Fiction
Language:
English
Keywords:
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