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Dhulma
No full textThis is the translation of Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021. Dr. Ida Hadjivayanis is a Senior Lecturer in Swahili Studies at SOAS University of London. This is her second translation of Abdulrazak Gurnah's novels, following her translation of Peponi.In the streets of Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, the lives of three young people-Badar, Karim, and Fauzia-are shaped by unpredictable events. Badar, a poor young man with no roots or education, finds himself in a world of people with power and wealth. As a servant, luck changes for him when he meets Karim, the ambitious son of a landlady, who has big dreams and expectations. At the same time, Fauzia, still weighed down by the challenges of childhood, is searching for a way out.These young people, with different dreams but intertwined fates, go through a journey of love, work, and parenthood, while their friendship is tested by greed, fear, economic and technological changes, and ultimately-betrayal. Does our destiny depend on the status of our birth, or can we rewrite it? Indeed, this narrative takes us on a journey through the lives of those seeking their place in a rapidly changing, ruthless world, indifferent to where they come fro
Letter from Ida Otani to Michi Weglyn, April 26, 1997
No full textA letter from Ida Otani to Michi Weglyn about the firing of Japanese American railroad workers during World War II. Otani describes the hardships her family went through after her father was fired by Western Pacific Railroad and the family was forced to vacate their home because it was on railroad property.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
The author, Ida Allen, recounts some of her life in Maine\u27s woods. She was born
No full textThe author, Ida Allen, recounts some of her life in Maine\u27s woods. She was born in a Moxie Gorge log camp in the 1910s, and she remembers how the river drivers and lumbermen got logs from Lake Moxie over Moxie Falls ( the Niagara of the north ) through Moosehead Lake to the company mills. Details
Letter from Ida Boitano to Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, 1942
No full textLetter from Ida Boitano to Ernest Besig. Boitano thanks Besig for the money he sent from Korematsu. She writes of her concern for Korematsu, and ask Besig to try to convince him not to contact her directly, out of fear it could be dangerous for her. She writes, "I happen to be Italian, and this is war, so we must both be careful." Stamped "confidential."The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case argued before the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States (1944), challenging the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066
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