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Pierre Guidi
Autobiographies and the writing of women’s history: the example of Hiwot Teffera’s Tower in the Sky
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As archives, autobiographies allow analysis of the reciprocal relations
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Researcher, Centre Population & Développement (CEPED), Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), Université de Paris, France. Contact : pierre. guidi@ ird. fr. The author would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers and Lindsay Randall for their careful reading and helpful suggestions.
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Annales d’Éthiopie, 2020, 33, 217-231
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Autobiographies are one of the most popular literary genres in Ethiopia. Senior civil servants, military personnel, intellectuals, and other direct witnesses to events write their life stories, and give testimonies about their experiences and the historical events they lived through. These are sometimes written to justify and legitimize their actions. Writing biographies is also a common p
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Reading List: Celebrate Black History Month
Celebrate Black History Month with a curated reading list from TBBL staff!
Civil Rights Movement
Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream and You, DB093511, by Carole Boston Weatherford
Presents key moments of Dr. King's life and encourages young people to be more like him by standing for peace, having a dream, and other acts. For grades K-3. 2018.
Let the Children March, DB093652 and BR022512, by Monica Clark-Robinson and Frank Morrison
Under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, children and teenagers march against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. PRINT/BRAILLE. For grades K-3. 2018.
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement, DB112389, by Angela Joy
The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement.
John Steptoe Award. For grades 2-4. 2022.
I am Rosa Parks, DB050384, by
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Iceland has a long and rich literary tradition. With its 380,000 inhabitants, Iceland has produced many great writers, and it is said that one in two Icelanders writes books. The literary tradition stretches all the way back to the Middle Ages.
“Previously, the theory was that Iceland was so dark and barren that the Icelanders had to fill their lives with storytelling and poetry to compensate for this. But Icelanders were certainly part of Europe and had a lot of contact with Britain, Germany, Denmark and Norway, among others,” said Tom Lorenz, a PhD research fellow at the Department of Language and Literature at NTNU. He is hunting down hidden and forgotten pieces of the island of the Sagas’ literary history.
“The Icelanders were part of a common European culture, and Iceland has been a great knowledge society for a long time.”
Royal lineage
We can thank the Icelanders for our relatively good overview of the royal lineage in Norway, right from the early Viking Age up to the d