Afawark Gabra Iyasus

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Afawark Gabra Iyasus

Ethiopian author

Also known as: Gabre-Eyesus, Afeworq

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African literature
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… (1908; “An Imagined Story”), by Afawark Gabra Iyasus. The oral storytelling tradition is clearly in evidence in this novel, in which a girl disguised as a boy becomes the centre of complex love involvements, the climax of which includes the conversion of a love-smitten king to Christianity. Heruy Walda Sellasse,…
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… (1908; “An Imagined Story”), by Afawark Gabra Iyasus. The oral storytelling tradition is clearly in evidence in this novel, in which a girl disguised as a boy becomes the centre of complex love involvements, the climax of which includes the conversion of a love-smitten king to Christianity. Heruy Walda Sellasse,…
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