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Ten Men is a novel by Alexandra Gray that was first published in 2005. Episodic in character, it covers a period of 20 years in the life of the first person narrator , an attractive nameless Englishwoman in search of perfect happiness, a state she equates with life with a perfect partner.
Beninese American are Americans of Beninese descent. According to the census of 2000, in the United States there are only 605 Americans of Beninese origin. [1] However, because since the first half of the eighteenth century to nineteenth many slaves were exported from Benin to the present United States, the number of African Americans with one or more Beninese ancestors could be much higher.
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story author, and writer of a series of novels featuring the character Frank Bascombe. [1] Ford's first collection of short stories, Rock Springs, was published in 1987. [2] [3] In the United States, Ford received the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Independence Day.
Félix Couchoro wrote the first Beninese novel, L'Esclave, in 1929. This was the first written literary work in the history of Beninese literature. Although the book is not widely known, it has symbolic significance in Benin's literary history. L'Esclave is the development from oral description to written record.
The list was criticized as biased towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [4]
Jasmine is a novel by Bharati Mukherjee set in the 1980s about a young Indian woman in the United States who, trying to adapt to the American way of life in order to be able to survive, changes identities several times. Mukherjee's own experiences of dislocation and displacement in her life helps her in recording the immigrant experience of the ...
The book provides perspective on the status of African Americans in the South after World War II and before the Civil Rights Movement. It shows the Jim Crow American South through the eyes of a formally educated African-American teacher who often feels helpless and alienated from his own country. In the novel, Grant is the only educated black ...
Christine Adjahi Gnimagnon, also connected with Senegal; Stanislas Adotevi (1934– ), French-language academic and philosopher; Berte-Evelyne Agbo, French-language poet also connected with Senegal