Beschreibung:
Michael Jackson, Distinguished Visiting Professor in World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, is an award-winning poet, novelist, and anthropologist. His many books include The Palm at the End of the Mind, Excursions, In Sierra Leone, and At Home in the World, all also published by Duke University Press.
Imagining Firawa ixFathers and Sons 1Forty Days 13Scenes from a Marriage 30Smoke and Mirrors 46Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World 63The Reopening of the Gate of Effort 77Something's Missing 88The Politics of Storytelling 100The Road to Kabala 112Their Eyes Were Watching God 122Albitaiya 134The Year of Supernatural Abundance 145Strings Attached 158The Shape of the Inconstruable Question 172Not to Find One's Way in a City 187Coda 199Acknowledgments 201Notes 203Index 225
Michael Jackson, Distinguished Visiting Professor in World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, is an award-winning poet, novelist, and anthropologist. His many books include The Palm at the End of the Mind, Excursions, In Sierra Leone, and At Home in the World, all also published by Duke University Press.