[PDF.28ib] The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman

The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman

[PDF.jn98] The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman

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 | #313317 in Books |  2015-10-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.31 x1.38 x7.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 544 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| A Fascinating and Revelatory Book|By SAH|This is a fascinating read - a new English translation of a seventeenth century hagiography of the Ethiopian female saint Walatta Petros, originally written in Ga'ez. The author (Belcher, working with translator Kleiner) has done previous work on the African influence on the Western intellectual tradition, and here gives us once again| |"Here is a really remarkable book ..., a book that willopen up for many a new horizon of Christian culture and faith. ... The book isfinely produced, and printed, with many colour illustrations. It is also casedin cloth, a rarity these days, and as such the pr

This is the first English translation of the earliest-known book-length biography of an African woman, and one of the few lives of an African woman written by Africans before the nineteenth century. As such, it provides an exceedingly rare and valuable picture of the experiences and thoughts of Africans, especially women, before the modern era. It is also an extraordinary account of a remarkable life--full of vivid dialogue, heartbreak, and triumph.


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