EMERGING PERSPECTIVE ON NURUDDIN FARAH Scribner The 'City of the Dead'

The 'City of the Dead' is a vast and ancient cemetery close to center of Cairo which has gradually become a permanent home for thousands of migrants from the countryside

and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes

Through meticulous transcriptions of all the extant lyrics of Rainey and Smith--published here in their entirety for the first time--Davis demonstrates how the roots of the blues extend beyond a musical tradition to serve as a conciousness-raising vehicle for American social memory

build the muscle of self-control

" the opening poem of Forest Primeval

EMERGING PERSPECTIVE ON NURUDDIN FARAH Scribner The 'City of the Dead'This is the first critical anthology on the Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah, winner of the 1998 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Farah is one of Africas most multilingual and multiliterate writers.