Month: January 2013

Edited by Daniel Maximin. Translated by Keith L. Walker Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Book Review by: Artha Hemrajani Suzanne Cesaire (1915-1966) along with her husband Aime Cesaire helped start the Negritude movement. She was a French author from Martinique. This book contains seven articles she wrote for Tropiques, a cultural journal. She wrote these during the World War II years of the Vichy Regime in France and its territories. The island of Martinique was one of these, where she was born. There were in all 14 issues of this journal. It was sometimes censored, sometimes shut down by the...

Author: Roger l. Cooke Publisher: Wiley Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram When studying the history of mathematics, at least three approaches or coordinates come to mind, points out the author of this book Roger L. Cooke, PhD., who is Williams Professor of Mathematics at the University of Vermont. Those three approaches or coordinates are: culture, chronology and content. As you go through this book, you will discover that one or two of the coordinates frequently overlap. Sometimes all three overlap. The first two editions of this book were organized in different ways than the current one. The first edition...

Author: Philip Nel Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Book Review by Nano Khilnani The subjects of this work, the husband-and-wife team of cartoon creators Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss, produced 75 books between themselves, many of which became classics in children’s literature. Johnson, born in 1906 and Krauss, born in 1901, were married in 1939. They spent 36 years together until Crockett passed away in 1975. It’s not just the quantity of work in literature that matters of course; it is also its popularity and circulation. On that point, the most well-known comic strip of Johnson, Barnaby, developed in...

Author: Victor Leontovitsch. Translated by Parmen Leontovitsch. Foreword by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, the well-known dissident of Soviet state suppressive policies and actions against the people, was the winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of The Gulag Archipelago, which exposed the Soviet Union’s forced labor camp system from 1918 to 1956. He was expelled by the government from the country in 1974 but returned 20 years later when the Soviet socialist system collapsed. In his Foreword to The History of Liberalism in Russia, Solzhenitsyn remarks...