Alberto Manguel

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Introduction: Why Are We Together? From: The City of Words View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Manguel examines how storytelling shapes political and social identity, making reference to Alfred Döblin, Plato, and Cassandra the Seer.	Alberto Manguel	27	2007	$2.70 Add
From Notes From: The City of Words View House of Anansi Press	This "chapter" includes notes relevant to various chapters.	Alberto Manguel	10	2007	$1.00 Add
From The Books of Don Quixote From: The City of Words View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Manguel examines Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1605) and the forced expulsion of Jews and Moriscos from the late fifteenth to early seventeenth centuries.	Alberto Manguel	29	2007	$2.90 Add
From The Bricks of Babel From: The City of Words View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Manguel explores the interplay between language, identity, and storytelling, drawing on Kafka’s 1918 Babel meditations, Irish colonial history, and Inuit narrative …	Alberto Manguel	31	2007	$3.10 Add
The City of Words House of Anansi Press	In the 2007 CBC Massey Lectures, Alberto Manguel leads us back into our literary tradition to find insight about one of the most contentious issues of our time: the rise of ethnic nationalism. …	Alberto Manguel	178	2007	View
From The Screen of Hal From: The City of Words View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Manguel examines how societies have built exclusionary structures to manage perceived external threats, from Aristotle’s barbarians to modern economic machinery.	Alberto Manguel	30	2007	$3.00 Add
From The Tablets of Gilgamesh From: The City of Words View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Manguel examines The Epic of Gilgamesh as a lens for understanding human identity and otherness.	Alberto Manguel	25	2007	$2.50 Add