Announcement: Marilyn Gaull Book Award

This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, South Africa. Petina Gappah is the third generation of Zimbabwean writers writing from the diaspora. She was born in 1971 in Zambia, and grew up in Zimbabwe during the transitional moment from colonial Rhodesia to independence. She has law degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Graz. She writes in English and also draws on Shona, her first language. She has published a short story collection An Elegy for Easterly (2009), first novel The Book of Memory (2015), and another collection of short stories, Rotten Row (2016).Â Gappahâ€™s collection of short stories An Elegy for Easterly (2009) was awarded The Guardian First Book Award in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Frank Oâ€™Connor International Short Story Award, the richest prize for the short story form. Gappah was working on her novel The Book of Memory at the time of this interview.

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Conclusion

10.1093/oso/9780190682088.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Germana

Keyword(s):

Book Award ◽

National Book ◽

Acceptance Speech

In “Brave Words for a Startling Occasion,” the acceptance speech he wrote for the National Book Award presentation ceremony at which he was honored, Ellison likens himself and his fellow novelists to Menelaus and his companions trying to find their way back home in Homer’s ...

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The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466176.001.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Keyword(s):

Final Section ◽

Religious Studies ◽

Religious Movements ◽

New Religious Movements ◽

Oxford University ◽

New Religions ◽

New Age Movement ◽

Book Award ◽

The Status ◽

Social Scientific

The first edition ofThe Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movementsappeared in early 2004. At the time, it was a much-needed overview of a rapidly-expanding area of study; it received recognition in the form of aChoicebook award. The second edition brings this task up to date. In addition to updating most of the original topics, the new edition takes in more topics by expanding the volume from 22 to 32 chapters, and enlarges the scope of the book by doubling the number of contributors from outside of North America. Following an introductory section devoted to social-scientific approaches to New Religious Movements (NRMs), the second section focuses on what has been uppermost in the minds of the general public, namely the controversies that have surrounded these groups. The third section examines certain themes in the study of NRMs, such as the status of children and women in such movements. The fourth section presents religious studies approaches by looking at NRM mythologies, rituals and the like. The final section covers the subfields that have grown out of NRM studies and become specializations in their own right, from the study of modern Paganism to the study of the New Age Movement. Finally, the present volume has a thematic focus; readers interested in specific NRMs are advised to consult the second edition of James R. Lewis and Jesper Aa. Petersen’s edited volume,Controversial New Religions(Oxford University Press 2014).

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