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Anglophone Liberian Literature: Primary Texts
Please use the Missing Texts form if you know a primary text that does not appear in the table below but that meets the following critiera:
primary text written by a Liberian author (incl. diaspora authors);
primary text centrally concerned with Liberia;
secondary source that is particularly useful and/or relevant to the study of Liberian Literature.
On the Symbols and Genre Terms Used in the Table
- Entries marked with an asterisk (*) in the first column were written by 'clearly' non-Liberian authors (i.e. neither Liberian citizen nor members of the Liberian diaspora).
- If the year is followed by a question mark (?), this means that it is only a rough estimate. For example, it is clear that Milton Nassau's poems were written in the early decades of the twentieth century, and probably during the 1920s. In the table below, the year is given as "1925 (?)."
The aim is to keep the list of genre terms short and simple. The goal, in other words, is not nuanced analysis but a first, broad categorization. The nine labels used in the table are:
1. Autobiography & Memoir | 4. Essays & Speeches |
• There has been a lot of noise in the media about the upcoming film, Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep, and about Julie Powell's book, upon which the film was based. Ms. Powell, known for cursing her way through 524 recipes in the first volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a single year, complained that she could never seem to find the ribbon when combining egg yolks with sugar, or that her crepe suzettes reeked of alcohol because she had failed to light them properly. And all this from a self-proclaimed home cook! If Julie Powell couldn't roll out a crepe or prepare an omelette, where did that leave someone like me -- a lowly author of young-adult books looking to follow a few of Julia Child's recipes in the name of research for a novel? When I began writing Dear Julia, a farcical comedy about a teenage prodigy who writes letters to Julia Child detailing her mishaps and blunders in the kitchen, it became clear that I would need to prepare the same recipes as my protagonist if I were to ensure some degree of authenticity. After all, you can't imagine your way through a recipe, particularly if you want to highlight the obstacles that stand in the way.
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