Lily Mabura
Biographic Data
| ID | 1369581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lily Mabura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lily |
| FAMILY NAME | Mabura |
| SIGNATURE | MABURA L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Polemics of Love and the Family in A New Day in Old Sana'a
Bader Hirsi (1968-) is a renowned Yemeni British filmmaker whose works include the documentary The English Sheikh and the Yemeni Gentleman (2000) and the feature film A New Day in Old Sana'a (2005). This essay explores how photography and film creatively interact in A New Day in Old Sana'a to tease out the peculiarities of love and marriage against a backdrop of intersecting socioeconomic factors such as tradition, gender, race, and national clas…
How Shall We Kill the Bishop
It was Fr Yasin Lordman who had asked the question — nothing more than a joke. A most inappropriate joke since he loved the bishop. It was Easter besides. But the three other priests in the vicarag
Breaking Gods
This article examines Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) through an "African Postcolonial Gothic" lens. It begins by tracing the historiography and manifestations of Gothic attributes in precolonial and colonial Africa as exemplified in novels such as Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1959), Mongo Beti's Poor Christ of Bomba (1971), and Bessie Head's A Question of Power (1974). It then discusses Hal…
Elgon
Elgon Lily Mabura (bio) Her face was averted beneath the reed hat but he could already tell that she did not like him any more than he liked her. They were standing under the narrow verandah of the forest station, and a knot of autocatalytic despair was tightening in his gut. His despair was mostly brought on by the rain, which had been falling nonstop for three days. There was dark mud everywhere, as on the shores of the Congo River, and he coul…
Breaking Gods
This article examines Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) through an "African Postcolonial Gothic" lens. It begins by tracing the historiography and manifestations of Gothic attributes in precolonial and colonial Africa as exemplified in novels such as Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1959), Mongo Beti's Poor Christ of Bomba (1971), and Bessie Head's A Question of Power (1974). It then discusses Hal…
Elgon
Elgon Lily Mabura (bio) Her face was averted beneath the reed hat but he could already tell that she did not like him any more than he liked her. They were standing under the narrow verandah of the forest station, and a knot of autocatalytic despair was tightening in his gut. His despair was mostly brought on by the rain, which had been falling nonstop for three days. There was dark mud everywhere, as on the shores of the Congo River, and he coul…
How Shall We Kill the Bishop
It was Fr Yasin Lordman who had asked the question — nothing more than a joke. A most inappropriate joke since he loved the bishop. It was Easter besides. But the three other priests in the vicarag
Breaking Gods
This article examines Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) through an "African Postcolonial Gothic" lens. It begins by tracing the historiography and manifestations of Gothic attributes in precolonial and colonial Africa as exemplified in novels such as Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1959), Mongo Beti's Poor Christ of Bomba (1971), and Bessie Head's A Question of Power (1974). It then discusses Hal…
Polemics of Love and the Family in A New Day in Old Sana'a
Bader Hirsi (1968-) is a renowned Yemeni British filmmaker whose works include the documentary The English Sheikh and the Yemeni Gentleman (2000) and the feature film A New Day in Old Sana'a (2005). This essay explores how photography and film creatively interact in A New Day in Old Sana'a to tease out the peculiarities of love and marriage against a backdrop of intersecting socioeconomic factors such as tradition, gender, race, and national clas…
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African studies (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Film director (1 work)