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The Kingdom of This World

By آلِخو كاربنتييه

Published by MAMDOUH ADWAN PUBLISHING HOUSE · 2020

  • رواية

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In colonial Haiti, the enslaved Mackandal escapes and assumes the forms of different animals, becoming a mythic force behind rebellion. Through Ti Noël’s life, Alejo Carpentier follows revolution, independence and the return of oppression under new rulers. Blending documented history with Vodou belief and the ‘marvellous real’, the novel challenges European accounts of the Caribbean and asks why liberation so often reproduces the structures it overthrows. Originally written in Spanish as “El reino de este mundo”, the work appears here in an Arabic translation by Ali Ibrahim Ashqar.

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