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1 online resource (xxiii, 179 pages) : 1 map |
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Singular lives |
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Singular lives.
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| Contents |
1983 -- Thursday, September 1: Arrival -- Friday, September 2: Clear Light of Day -- Friday, September 9: Buying a Car -- Monday, September 12: Tam-tam Funeral -- Friday, September 16: Martin/Mahouna -- Sunday, September 18: Expats -- Tuesday, September 20: Home Improvement -- Friday, September 23: Chez Mahouna -- Sunday, September 25: Village Visit -- Monday, September 26: Bypass Plumbing -- Friday, September 30: Labor History Seminar -- Friday, September 30: On the Town -- Sunday, October 2: The Plateau -- Friday, October 14: Ecole des Lettres -- Sunday, October 16: Family Friend -- Friday, October 21: First Week of School -- Sunday, October 23: Housewarming -- Sunday, October 30: Second Week of School -- Tuesday, November 8: Junior Year Abroad -- Tuesday, November 15: Literature without Books -- Sunday, November 20: Coffee-Cocoa Triangle -- Wednesday, November 23: Neighbors -- Saturday, November 26: "Avoir le Temps" -- Thursday, December 1: Birthday -- Sunday, December 4: New Clothes -- Thursday, December 8: Information -- Tuesday, December 13: Integrated Development -- Sunday, December 18: 1984 -- Friday, December 23: Roommates -- Monday, December 26: Christmas -- 1984 -- Sunday, January 1: Tourists in Benin -- Sunday, January 8: "A & P" -- Saturday, January 14: Le Treize Janvier -- Saturday, January 28 Maitrise [Maîtrise] -- Sunday, February 12: The Doorbell -- Sunday, February 19: Ecole Normale -- Wednesday, February 22: Veronique [Véronique] -- Friday, February 24: Breakdowns -- Sunday, March 4: Economics -- Sunday, March 11: Hot Season -- Sunday, March 25: Culture Crossing -- Saturday, April 7: The Route d'Atakpame [d'Atakpamé] -- Monday, April 16: To the North -- Tuesday, May 15: The Color Purple -- Monday, June 11: Borders -- Saturday, June 16: The Airport -- Monday, June 18: A Day on the Ghana Border -- Monday, June 25: Accra and Home -- Postscript, 1991 |
| Summary |
Blake's adventurous essays--her Letters from Togo--are based on the letters she wrote to her friends from Lomé, the West African capital where she spent a Fulbright year teaching American literature from 1983 to 1984. As Blake begins the process of making sense out of a vibrant, seeming anarchy, we are pulled along with her into the heart of Togo--a tiny dry strip of a country no one can even find on a map. With her delightful prose and insight for detail Blake introduces us to Mahouna, her housekeeper, who runs a cold drink business from his refrigerator in a country where electricity is unre |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Blake, Susan Louise, 1946- -- Travel -- Togo -- Lomé Region
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Blake, Susan Louise, 1946- -- Correspondence
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Blake, Susan Louise, 1946- fast |
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Université du Bénin.
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Université du Bénin fast |
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Literature teachers -- Togo -- Lomé Region -- Correspondence
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Literature teachers -- United States -- Correspondence
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TRAVEL -- General.
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Literature teachers
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Manners and customs
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Travel
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Lomé Region (Togo) -- Description and travel
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Lomé Region (Togo) -- Social life and customs
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Togo -- Lomé Region
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Personal correspondence
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1587290189 |
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9781587290183 |
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