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38, rue Saint-Sabin
75011 Paris
France
Tél: +33 (0)1 43 14 75 75
www.eclm.fr
The Charles Léopold Mayer publishing house publishes works of analysis, thinking and proposals to reshape practices and modes of action in fields such as governance, solidarity-based economy, participative democracy, intercultural dialogue, peace building, civic science etc. It aims always at stimulating the critical conscience and inventive, citizen-oriented potential of their readership.
Charles Léopold Mayer est un scientifique, philosophe et financier qui s’est inscrit dans la tradition humaniste de la philosophie des Lumières.
Prendre en compte les différences culturelles dans un monde à gérer en commun - Michel SAUQUET, avec la collaboration de Martin VIELAJUS
À ceux qui, dans l’humanitaire, dans l’entreprise, dans les organisations internationales, sont amenés à travailler ou à vivre dans des cultures qui ne sont pas les leurs, ce livre apporte une réflexion sur la différence, les malentendus culturels, l’enjeu de l’identification de terrains d’entente. Il propose à ces professionnels un réflexe de questionnement de la culture de l’autre : a-t-il la même conception du temps, de l’action, des méthodes de travail, de la richesse, de la hiérarchie, de la notion d’égalité, du lien à l’environnement naturel ? Quel sont, dans la société, le poids et l’influence du facteur religieux ? Comment y gère-t-on le rapport entre tradition et modernité ? Parlons-nous le même langage ? Un mot est-il traduit une fois qu’il est traduit ? Toute communication n’est-elle que verbale ? Autant de questions qui nous aident à prendre conscience de notre propre conditionnement culturel et nous incitent à pratiquer ces deux vertus de la relation interculturelle : le doute, qui n’empêche pas les convictions ; la patience, qui n’empêche pas le dynamisme.
Michel SAUQUET travaille depuis une trentaine d’années dans le secteur de la coopération internationale. Il dirige l’Institut de recherche et débat sur la gouvernance. Il enseigne à Sciences Po Paris.
Martin VIELAJUS est directeur-adjoint de l’IRG et enseignant à Sciences Po où il animera en 2008 avec Michel Sauquet le séminaire « approches interculturelles de la gouvernance ».
Octobre 2007 - 330 pages - 21 € -
ISBN : 978-2-84377-135-4
De nouvelles voies vers une prospérité durable - Bernard LIETAER, Margrit KENNEDY - Traduit de l’allemand par Vincent GUIMARD -
Préface de Michel ROCARD
Le processus de mondialisation qui est en œuvre depuis une vingtaine d’années suscite autant l’assentiment que la méfiance. Il s’agit aujourd’hui non pas de savoir si la mondialisation est « bonne » ou « mauvaise », mais d’élaborer un modèle dans lequel tous les participants seraient gagnants. Se fondant sur le rôle que notre système monétaire joue dans ces dysfonctionnements, Bernard Lietaer et Margrit Kennedy démontrent que des organisations ayant une bonne connaissance des attentes au niveau local sont plus à même de remplir des missions sociales comme l’assistance aux enfants ou aux personnes âgées, la lutte contre le chômage… Ils militent pour que les initiatives de portée nationale ou européenne soient soutenues par l’introduction de monnaies régionales. Ce modèle de développement concret, crédible et cohérent, offre une contre-esquisse à la forme actuelle de la mondialisation, et permet de répondre aux attentes légitimes de ces milliards d’hommes qui, actuellement, n’en subissent que les conséquences négatives.
Bernard LIETAER a travaillé dans le domaine des systèmes monétaires pendant 30 ans. Il est l’auteur, entre autres, de future of Money, traduit en 18 langues.
Margrit Kennedy était la première femme professeur d’architecture et d’urbanisme en Allemangne, et la première à se spécialiser en techniques de construction écologique.
Novembre 2008 - 256 pages - 20 € -
ISBN : 978-2-84377-144-6
Pour une politique agricole mondiale -
Matthieu CALAME -
Préface de Christian MOUCHET
L’augmentation récente des prix agricoles est venue relancer les inquiétudes sur l’avenir alimentaire de l’humanité. Face à l’ampleur des défis, il est tentant de croire qu’une révolution technique (OGM, agrocarburants, agriculture de précision guidée par satellite…) fournira des solutions qui dispenseront les sociétés de prendre les mesures politiques et sociales nécessaires. Pourtant le problème, aujourd’hui comme autrefois, est avant tout social et économique et c’est sur sa capacité à produire des lois et des règles intelligentes touchant la gestion de l’eau, du sol, de la biodiversité et des échanges internationaux, que l’humanité doit compter pour assurer tranquillement sa survie alimentaire au XXIe siècle.
Avec une approche originale empruntant à la fois à l’histoire et à l’agronomie, l’auteur se propose de définir une politique mondiale pour l’alimentation de la planète et la sauvegarde de ses ressources.
Matthieu CALAME, né en 1970, est ingénieur agronome. Il a procédé pour la fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l’homme à la reconversion de son domaine rural de la ferme de la Bergerie (val d’Oise-France) vers une gestion durable. A ce titre il a également été pendant trois ans président de l’Institut Technique d’Agriculture Biologique (ITAB). Il est actuellement en charge pour la fondation du dossier de l’évolution des recherches sur le vivant et de la gestion durable des territoires.
Avril 2008 - 208 pages - 18 € -
ISBN : 978-2-84377-142-2
Contact : Aline JABLONKA
Responsable : Isabelle YAFIL
10, rue Tournefort
75005 Paris
France
Tél: +33 (0)1 43 36 78 47
www.editionschandeigne.fr
The Portuguese Bookshop was founded in 1986, to coincide with the installation in Paris of Michel Chandeigne’s printing office. In 1992, he teamed up with Anne Lima to found the Chandeigne publishing house, which got off to a flying start with the publication of La frontière, by Pascal Quignard and the first work in the now prestigious “Magellane” collection: Histoires tragico-maritimes, three accounts of Portuguese shipwrecks in the 16th century. The firm has remained faithful to the artisanal vocation of its beginnings: while the office has been upgraded with state-of-the-art composition tools, all the publishing work in the broadest sense of the word is handled and controlled by Anne Lima and Michel Chandeigne, with a demanding vision of printing quality hailed by both the press and the general public. Five to eight works are thus published each year in the various collections (“Magellane”, “Lusitane”, “Péninsules”, and “Grands Formats”).
Chandeigne est le nom de Michel (Chandeigne), en toute humilité.
Armelle ENDERS
Cet ouvrage traite des cinq pays africains qui ont gardé le portugais comme langue officielle : Angola, Cap-Vert, Guinée-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé & Príncipe. Il décrit le rapport du Portugal et de l’Afrique, des découvertes aux indépendances, ainsi que le parcours accompli par chacun de ces pays depuis 20 ans.
1994 - 2e éd. complétée 1998 - 160 pages - 13 cartes - 14 € - ISBN: 978-2-906462-14-4
Armelle ENDERS
Avec presque 200 millions d’habitants et une économie qui oscille autour du 10e rang mondial, le Brésil appartient aux grandes puissances d’aujourd’hui et représente à lui seul plus de la moitié de l’Amérique du Sud par sa superficie, sa population, son PIB. Le Brésil est toutefois moins connu pour sa puissance, somme toute récente, que pour sa réputation de « pays métis », de mélange réussi et harmonieux de populations aux origines variées.
Faire l’histoire du Brésil ne consiste pas à tracer une évolution rectiligne et déterministe de ce qui serait un « destin national », la construction implacable du «Géant lusophone », depuis l’arrivée des Portugais en 1500 jusqu’à la présidence de Lula, mais de suggérer que bien d’autres destins étaient possibles. Le livre, qui prend en compte la préhistoire du pays, insiste sur la diversité et les contradictions de la société brésilienne, tant à la période dite coloniale que depuis l’Indépendance de 1822. Il montre le rôle central qu’exercèrent Portugais et Brésiliens pendant toute la durée de la traite négrière, le fonctionnement du système esclavagiste, ainsi que les séquelles de longue durée que fait peser celui-ci sur les rapports sociaux et la citoyenneté au Brésil. Il s’efforce, enfin, de faire l’archéologie du «Brésil métis », en plaçant dans son contexte le métissage, ses formes, ses significations et ses enjeux.
Armelle ENDERS, spécialiste d’histoire du Brésil, est maître de conférences en histoire contemporaine à l’université Paris 4-Sorbonne.
2008 - 224 pages - 20 € - ISBN : 978-2-915540-34-5
Alvise CA’ DA MOSTO (1455 et 1456) - Préface, traduction et notes: Frédérique VERRIER
En 1455, le Vénitien Alvise Ca’ da Mosto s’embarque sur une caravelle de l’infant Henri le Navigateur pour commercer sur les côtes africaines. Deux voyages le conduiront jusqu’aux côtes à peine reconnues du Sénégal et de la Gambie. Au passage, il découvre les îles du Cap-Vert. De retour à Venise, il augmente sa relation de la «navigation» de Pêro de Sintra (1460), rédigée d’après le journal de bord de ce dernier.
Le regard de l’auteur n’est pas celui d’un chroniqueur officiel mais d’un marchand sans préjugés et curieux de tout, répugnant à l’affabulation et d’une surprenante ouverture d’esprit, notamment lors de ses dialogues avec les musulmans, ce qui fait de ce texte le premier récit «moderne» de la littérature de voyage. De surcroît, alternant avec la description des paysages et des péripéties de la navigation, les notations sur la vie quotidienne des Berbères ou des Noirs font de ce récit le premier «reportage» ethnographique connu.
1994 - nouvelle édition remaniée 2003 - ouvrage coédité avec les Éditions Unesco - 160 pages - 18 € - ISBN : 978-2-906462-94-6
Contact : Anne LIMA
4447, rue Saint-Denis
H2J 2L2 Montréal (Québec)
Canada
Tél: +1 (514) 287 7401
www.editionsboreal.qc.ca
The Éditions du Boréal, founded in 1963, is today a quintessential feature of Quebecois literature, due to its prestigious authors as well as its commercial dynamism. The firm’s catalogue includes over 1,400 titles of general literature and offers works in several genres: novels, short stories, plays, poetry, essays, documents, studies, history books and children’s literature.
Francis DUPUIS-DÉRI
«Antimondialisation», «altermondialisation» ou «mouvement pour la justice mondiale» : le «mouvement des mouvements», à la fois enraciné dans les contextes politiques nationaux et nourri de ses multiples liens transnationaux, représente une puissante lame de fond, un ressac contre l’idéologie néolibérale et les politiques menées depuis des décennies que les contestataires jugent éminemment injustes et néfastes pour une grande partie de la population. Ce vaste mouvement social est complexe. On le voit dans ses actions, ses pratiques, ses organisations et ses discours. Il est une force critique porteuse d’une multitude d’idéaux, d’espoirs et de projets souvent contradictoires.
Francis DUPUIS-DÉRI est professeur au département de science politique de l’UQAM. Il a fait paraître de nombreux livres portant sur les mouvements contestataires contemporains et sur la politique internationale. Il est aussi l’auteur, aux Éditions du Boréal, de “L’Archipel identitaire”. Recueil d’entretiens sur l’identité culturelle (avec Marcos Ancelovici, 1997) et de “Identités mosaïques”. Entretiens sur l’identité culturelle des Québécois juifs (avec Julie Châteauvert, 2004).
2009 - 128 pages - 12,95 $CAN (9,5 €) - ISBN : 978-2-7646-0644-5
Nadine BISMUTH
Dix ans après avoir publié “Les gens fidèles ne font pas les nouvelles”, Nadine Bismuth revient au genre qui l’a fait connaître et lui a valu un grand succès.
Elle nous donne dans ce nouveau recueil une série de tableaux de la vie contemporaine où la finesse de l’analyse n’a d’égale que le plaisir communicatif qu’elle prend à croquer ses modèles. Célibataires qui désespèrent de trouver l’âme sœur, épouse dépendante, jeune femme qui tient à garder sa liberté et d’autres qui ne souhaitent que la perdre. Autant de personnages qui animent ces nouvelles avec humour, dérision et beaucoup de sensibilité.
Nadine BISMUTH revient à ses thèmes favoris que sont la quête de l’amour et l’engagement amoureux. Ceux-ci sont-ils toujours possibles à une époque où tout va trop vite et dans laquelle trop souvent l’individualisme prime sur le couple?
Née à Montréal en 1975, Nadine Bismuth complète ses études littéraires à l’Université McGill, où elle obtient une maîtrise en littérature française. En 1999, elle publie son premier ouvrage, un recueil de nouvelles, “Les Gens fidèles ne font pas les nouvelles”. Ce livre remporte le Prix Adrienne-Choquette de la nouvelle ainsi que le Prix de l’Association des libraires du Québec. En 2004, Nadine Bismuth fait paraître un deuxième ouvrage, un roman cette fois-ci, “Scrapbook”.
“Les gens fidèles ne font pas les nouvelles” et “Scrapbook” ont été traduits en plusieurs langues.
2009 - 224 pages - 22,95 $CAN (18 €) - ISBN : 978-2-7646-0662-9
Monique PROULX
Il y a Lila Szach, venue d’un autre âge et d’un autre continent, qui veille jalousement sur la paix des lieux. Le jeune Jérémi qui tente désespérément de déjouer l’avenir et le divorce de ses parents et qui finit par se lier d’amitié avec la vieille sorcière du lac. La bande des Clémont, si peu conscients du prix de ce qui les entoure, même s’ils y vivent depuis toujours. Claire, qui tente de tenir en équilibre entre le monde de l’imagination et celui de la réalité. Violette, la survenante, qui veut fuir l’horreur de la maladie mais qui porte en elle des blessures beaucoup trop profondes. La beauté du monde qui les entoure suffira-t-elle à les sauver ?
Monique PROULX est scénariste et a écrit plusieurs romans dont Homme invisible à la fenêtre (1993, Prix des libraires du Québec, prix Québec-Paris, prix littéraire Desjardins), “Le cœur est un muscle involontaire” (2002), des nouvelles, “Sans cœur et sans reproche” (1983, prix Adrienne-Choquette, prix littéraire Desjardins, Grand Prix du Journal de Montréal) et “Les Aurores montréales” (1996).
391 pages - 27.95 $CAN (21 €) - ISBN: 978-2-7646-0581-3
Contact : Pascal ASSATHIANY
1077, Bastos, rue Mballa Eloumdem
B.P. 8106 - Yaoundé
Cameroon
Tél: (+237) 222 202 695
www.aes-pua.com
L’Africaine d’Édition et de Services is a business corporation that was created in 1995 with exclusively Cameroonian capital.
Its ambition is to be, in Africa, one of the best forums for the written expression of any good creative initiative. Its publishing names are Presses universitaires d’Afrique for non-academic literature and Éditions AES for academic and extra-curricular publications. The Africaine d’Édition et de Services (AES SA) has produced nearly 200 publications in 11 collections. Each collection is developed and co-directed by several Cameroonian and non-African practitioners and university professors of scientific renown in their respective disciplines. The AES is fighting for cultural diversity in the world and takes local realities into account in its publications.
Maître TWENGEMBO
Le présent manuel, réalisé dans le cadre du Droit Harmonisé OHADA, ne présente que les principaux formulaires des Actes OHADA. C’est pourquoi les formulaires des procédures spécifiques à chaque droit interne (Baux, Mariage, Divorce, Successions, Saisies-contrefaçon, Régimes matrimoniaux, etc.) ne s’y trouvent pas.
La rédaction des requêtes laisse des blancs à compléter, chacun à sa manière et avec son style, l’essentiel étant de convaincre le juge à signer le projet de l’autorisation de pratiquer la saisie. En effet dans les procédures simplifiées, lorsqu’il y a opposition, la charge et le risque de la preuve pèsent sur le demandeur de l’autorisation (article 13). Singulièrement dans les saisies conservatoires, nonobstant la saisie préalablement pratiquée, le titre ne peut être obtenu que si la preuve de la créance est rapportée.
Maître TWENGEMBO est avocat au barreau du Cameroun.
2007 (2e édition) - 495 pages - 21 x 29,7 cm - 30 € (prix export) - ISBN: 978-9956-444-39-1 - collection « Droit Uniforme »
Paul-Gérard POUGOUE, Yvette Rachel KALIEU ELONGO
Un modèle unique et séduisant d’intégration est conçu avec la création, en 1993, de l’Organisation pour l’Harmonisation en Afrique du Droit des Affaires (OHADA). Celle-ci est désormais omniprésente, avec ses lueurs et ses leurres, ses promesses et ses angoisses. Que l’on soit homme politique, investisseur, homme d’affaires, bailleur de fonds, chef d’entreprise, professionnel du droit, associé, salarié, enseignant, chercheur, étudiant…, nul ne peut et ne doit aujourd’hui se désintéresser de l’espace juridique et judiciaire qui se construit et du devenir de l’OHADA.
Dans un style vivant, les auteurs veulent faire connaître à tout lecteur, spécialiste ou non, mais surtout comprendre l’OHADA de l’intérieur et méditer sur son évolution. La première partie est ainsi consacrée, sans complaisance, aux épineux problèmes institutionnels. A la suite, la seconde partie porte un regard qualitatif sur le droit matériel, moins pour évaluer sa technicité que pour apprécier son effectivité et son attractivité.
En fin de compte, le but recherché est de sensibiliser les décideurs sur l’ampleur des questions et la profondeur des solutions à trouver.
Ouvrage coédité avec les éditions Éburnie en Côte d’Ivoire et Ruisseaux d’Afrique au Bénin
2008 - 228 pages - 23 € (prix export) - ISBN : 978-9956-444-48-0
Jérôme LEDOUX FOUOTSA
L’origine de ces contes et légendes se perd dans la nuit des temps et dans celle de l’humanité africaine. Les Bamiléké (peuple du grass field au Cameroun), fermement attachés à leurs us et coutumes par un pacte occulte, ont le devoir de transmettre à leur descendance, dans le respect scrupuleux de l’éthique séculaire, les récits ancestraux qui regorgent d’une pédagogie pluridimensionnelle.
2009 - 124 pages - 13,5 X 20 cm - 10 € (prix export) -
ISBN : 978-2-912086-69-8
Contact : Serge DONTCHUENG KOUAM
120 Wall Street, 31st Floor
New York, NY 10005
United States
Tél: +1 (212) 629-8802
www.thenewpress.com
For 30 years, André Schiffrin headed one of the most prestigious US publishing houses, Pantheon Books, publishing works by Foucault, Sartre, Chomsky, Medvedev etc. Since 1991, he managed The New Press, an independent publishing house. Founded in 1990 as a major alternative to the large, commercial publishers, The New Press is a not-for-profit publishing house operated editorially in the public interest. It is committed to publishing in innovative ways works of educational, cultural, and community value that, despite their intellectual merits, may be deemed insufficiently profitable by commercial publishers. Like the Public Broadcasting System and National Public Radio as they were originally conceived, The New Press aims to provide ideas and viewpoints under-represented in the mass media. As an author of international renown, André Schiffrin (1935-2013) analyses the threats to the world of publishing and uses his works to protest against the globalisation phenomenon as it impacts the world of publishing and media. He has published among other works L’édition sans éditeurs (Publishing without Publishers) and Le contrôle de la parole (Controlling speech) published by La Fabrique in France.
The Asian American Superhero Antholog - Edited by Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Keith Chow, and Jerry Ma
Appealing to both comics fans and Asian Americans seeking to claim their place in American culture, Secret Identities makes brilliant use of the conventions of the superhero comic book to expose the real face of the Asian American experience.
This groundbreaking graphic anthology brings together leading Asian American creators in the comics industry—including Gene Yang (National Book Award finalist for American Born Chinese), Bernard Chang (Wonder Woman), Greg Pak (The Hulk), and Christine Norrie (Black Canary Wedding Special )—to craft original graphical short stories set in a compelling “shadow history” of our country: from the building of the railroads to the Japanese American internment, the Vietnam airlift, the murder of Vincent Chin, and the incarceration of Dr. Wen Ho Lee.
Entertaining and enlightening, Secret Identities offers whiz-bang action, searing satire, and thoughtful commentary from a community too often overlooked by the cultural mainstream, while showcasing a vivid cross-section of the talents whose imagination and creativity is driving the contemporary comics renaissance.
Jeff Yang was the founder of the pioneering Asian American periodical aMagazine. The author of three books and the biweekly column “Asian Pop” for the San Francisco Chronicle, he lives in Brooklyn, New York. Parry Shen, best known for his lead role in the movie Better Luck Tomorrow, lives in Southern California. Keith Chow, an educator and comics journalist, lives in Maryland. Jerry Ma, the founder of the indie comics studio Epic Proportions, lives in New York City.
$21.95 / £15.99
Pub Date: Spring 2009
Format: paperback
Trim: 8 x 10, 192 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59558-398-7
Baseball and the Rise (and Fall) of the American Way Abroad - by Robert Elias
Is the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its own image or instead been at the mercy of broader forces shaping our society and the globe? The Empire Strikes Out gives us the sweeping story of how baseball and America are intertwined in the export of “the American way.”
From the Civil War to George W. Bush and the Iraq War, we see baseball’s role in developing the American empire, first at home and then beyond our shores. And from Albert Spalding and baseball’s first World Tour to Bud Selig and the World Baseball Classic, we witness the globalization of America’s national pastime and baseball’s role in spreading the American dream. Besides describing baseball’s frequent and often surprising connections to America’s presence around the world, Elias assesses the effects of this relationship both on our foreign policies and on the sport itself and asks whether baseball can play a positive role or rather only reinforce America’s dominance around the globe. Like Franklin Foer in How Soccer Explains the World, Elias is driven by compelling stories, unusual events, and unique individuals. His seamless integration of original research and compelling analysis makes this a baseball book that’s about more than just sports.
Robert Elias teaches law and politics at the University of San Francisco. He’s the author and editor of eight books, most recently Baseball and the American Dream, and a baseball novel, The Deadly Tools of Ignorance. He lives in Mill Valley, California.
$27.95 / £10.99
Pub Date: Fall 2009
Format: hardcover
Trim: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 416 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59558-195-2
The Purging of Muslim Spain - by Matthew Carr
In April 1609, King Philip III of Spain signed an edict denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that year, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory, on threat of death.
In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families and communities were obliged to abandon homes and villages where they had lived for generations, leaving their property in the hands of their Christian neighbors. In Aragon and Catalonia, Muslims were escorted by government commissioners who forced them to pay whenever they drank water from a river or took refuge in the shade.
For five years the expulsion continued to grind on, until an estimated 300,000 Muslims had been removed from Spanish territory, nearly 5 percent of the total population. By 1614 Spain had successfully implemented what was then the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history, and Muslim Spain had effectively ceased to exist.
Blood and Faith is celebrated journalist Matthew Carr’s riveting chronicle of this virtually unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of the history of Muslim Spain. Here is a remarkable window onto a little-known period in modern Europe—a rich and complex tale of competing faiths and beliefs, of cultural oppression and resistance against overwhelming odds.
Matthew Carr is a writer, broadcaster, and journalist and the author of The Infernal Machine (The New Press). He lives in Derbyshire, England.
$28.95
Pub Date: Fall 2009
Format: hardcover
Trim: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 368 pages
ISBN: 978-1-59558-361-1
Contact : Jay GUPTA
C/2186 Kindonou 04 BP 1154
Cotonou 04
Benin
Tél: (+229) 21 38 31 86
www.ruisseauxdafrique.com
Ruisseaux d’Afrique is a Beninese publishing house specialising in children’s publications: nearly 150 works in roughly 20 collections (activity books, illustrated albums, children’s novels, documentaries, high-art books, humanities etc.). Its output is also oriented towards the presentation of African art and life in Africa. It is a platform from which African painters, authors, artists, and illustrators can express themselves. Ruisseaux d’Afrique is involved in several pan-African and international co-publication networks.
Nous tirons notre nom du proverbe « Les petits ruisseaux engendrent les grandes rivières ». C’est un message d’humilité (nous ne sommes que de tout petits ruisseaux culturels comme il y en a partout le monde) et un message de foi en l’Afrique (si tous les filons potentiels d’Afrique s’éveillaient et coulaient, nous formerions des rivières, des fleuves, des océans…). L’Afrique, en actualisant ses ressources endogènes peut se déployer, donner et recevoir, co-construire le monde.
Contact : Béatrice LALINON GBADO
Responsable : Bérénice GANGBO
PO Box 105
Mission Beach
Queensland 4852
Australia
Tél: +61 418 506 645
www.spinifexpress.com.au
Spinifex is an independent feminist press publishing innovative and controversial feminist books with an optimistic edge. Spinifex, our namesake, is an Australian desert grass that holds the earth together. We publish broadly, with a focus on ecology, development, Indigenous and human rights issues in our non-fiction titles, and world stories in our fiction and poetry. We are also at the forefront of digital publishing, with many of our titles available as eBooks.
Spinifex is an Australian desert grass that holds the earth together.
Read here the interview with Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (June 25, 2018).
Merlinda BOBIS
1987. The Philippine government fights a total war against insurgency. The village of Iraya is militarised. The days are violent and the nights heavy with fireflies in the river where the dead are dumped. With her twelve-metre hair, Estrella, the Fish-Hair Woman, trawls corpses from the water that tastes of lemon grass. She falls in love with the Australian Tony McIntyre who disappears in the conflict. Ten years later, his son travels to Manila to find his father.
How much can the heart accommodate? Death and love, an enemy and a sweetheart, war and an impassioned serenade, and more. Only four chambers but with infinite space like memory, where there is room even for those whom we do not love.
Awards
Winner: 2014 Juan C. Laya Prize for Best Novel in a Foreign Language
Winner: 2013 Most Underrated Book Award
Finalist: 2013 Davitt Awards. Best Crime and Mystery Books by Australian Women
“As I was reading my thoughts kept turning to Wide Sargasso Sea. It shares with Jean Rhys’s masterpiece more than just a threat to topple into tragedy, but Fish-Hair Woman takes a wider view. It is a love story, a murder mystery, a story about family and a story about the impact of the kind of self-perpetuating government corruption that so often befalls a country in political turmoil. It’s ambitious and sprawling, and things could quickly go wrong. Fortunately, they don’t. Bobis is a talented, passionate writer who is unafraid of exploring the storytelling potential of the novel.”
–Tristan Foster, Verity LA
Published by Spinifex, co-edition with Anvil Press, Philippines; Translation into Spanish by JC Sáez Editor, Chile (2017).
2011 - 232 x 154 mm - 303 pp - AUD$29.95 - ISBN: 9781876756970
khulud kHAMIS
Jewellery designer, Maisoon, wants an ordinary extraordinary life, which isn’t easy for a tradition-defying, activist, Palestinian citizen of Israel, who refuses to be crushed by the feeling that she is an unwelcome guest in the land of her ancestors. Frustrated by the apathy of her boyfriend Ziyad and her father Majid—who want her to get on with her life and forget those in the Occupied Territories—she lashes out, only to discover her father isn’t the man she thought he was.
Raised a Christian, in a relationship with a Muslim man and enamoured with a Palestinian woman from the Occupied Territories, Maisoon must decide her own path.
khulud khamis unpacks the multiple layers of culture, religion, sexuality, politics, feminism and nationalism in the hope of gathering the fragmented pieces of the past and reclaiming the lost contiguity of being Palestinian.
—Samah Sabawi, Palestinian playwright and commentator
... khulud khamis has the rare gift of speaking directly to a reader’s soul; this radiant novel shows just what can happen when women challenge the limits of their world. —Sharon Olinka, author of The Good City
khulud khamis is a Palestinian feminist writer, born to a Slovak mother and a Palestinian father. She holds a Master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Haifa and works in the field of social change organizations. She is a member of the feminist organization Isha L’Isha – Haifa Feminist Center. She lives in Haifa with her daughter. This is her first novel.
Published by Spinifex Press; co-edition with New Internationalist UK; Italian translation FILA37 (2015); Turkish translation Gulduniya (2017).
2015 - 192 pp - ISBN: 9781742199009
Fiction
Susan HAWTHORNE
In a globalised world, megacorp publishing is all about numbers, about sameness, about following a formula based on the latest megasuccess. Each book is expected to pay for itself and all the externalities of publishing such as offices and CEO salaries.
It means that books which take off slowly but have long lives, the books that change social norms, are less likely to be published.
Independent publishers are seeking another way. A way of engagement with society and methods that reflect something important about the locale or the niche they inhabit. Independent and small publishers are like rare plants that pop up among the larger growth but add something different, perhaps they feed the soil, bring colour or scent into the world.
Bibliodiversity is a term invented by Chilean publishers in the 1990s as a way of envisioning a different kind of publishing. In this manifesto, Susan Hawthorne provides a scathing critique of the global publishing industry set against a visionary proposal for organic publishing. She looks at free speech and fair speech, at the environmental costs of mainstream publishing and at the promises and challenges of the move to digital.
Susan Hawthorne has worked in the book industry for more than 30 years as a writer, festival organiser, reviewer, editor, publisher and mentor. In 1991, she co-founded Spinifex Press with Renate Klein, after working for Penguin Australia for four years. She has written extensively about the industry, co-organised digital training for small and large publishers, taught Publishing Studies and Creative Writing, and has been an active member of peak bodies for publishers and writers. From 2011 to 2016, she was the English-language Coordinator for the International Alliance of Independent Publishers based in Paris. She is Adjunct Professor in the Writing Program at James Cook University and Publisher at Spinifex Press.
Bibliodiversity can be read as a manifesto for the defence and promotion of diversity in all its forms, but also as a master class in ethics.—JUAN CARLOS SÁEZ C., Director Gerente, JC Sáez Editor, Chile
This publication should be mandatory reading for anyone within the publishing industry.—MARY MASTERS, General Manager, Small Press Network, Australia
2014 - 104 pp - ISBN: 9781742199306
Non-Fiction
Rights: World. Published by Spinifex Press; Canadian rights sold to Fernwood Publishing; Translations into Arabic: December 2015, Tunisia, Éditions Med Ali, Arabic; Syria, Atlas Publishing, Arabic; Egypt, Elain Publishing, Arabic; Lebanon, Dar-Alfarabi and Arab Diffusion. French, 2016: France, Éditions Charles Léopold Mayer; Switzerland, éditions d’en bas; Benin, Éditions Ruisseaux d’Afrique; Mali, Éditions Jamana; Cameroun, Presses universitaires d’Afrique ; Spanish, 2017: Chile, JC Sáez; Mexico, Trilce Ediciones; Uruguay: Ediciones Trilce; also publishers in Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia. German, 2017, Verbrecher Verlag.
Contact : Susan HAWTHORNE
Responsable : Renate KLEIN
Rua de Santana, 198 Loja – Centro
Rio de Janeiro - RJ 20 230-261
Brazil
Tél: (+55) 21 2508-9517
www.contracapa.com.br
Founded in 1992 in Copacabana, the Contra Capa bookstore initiated its publishing activities in 1996. First based on the areas of interest of the bookstore itself, these activities have diversified and now include fine arts, photography, cinema, psychoanalysis, anthropology, economy, sociology, history, literary criticism and poetry. The main objective is to produce books that combine interdependence between text and pictures, in the light of the continuous technological changes related to producing and disseminating knowledge and information.
Fernando VELOSO, Sergio GUIMARÃES FERREIRA (orgs.)
Este importante livro mostra que é possível alcançar redução expressiva da violência armada, da insegurança e da criminalidade que aterrorizam a população de grandes áreas urbanas do Brasil. Seus autores mostram – com fatos e não vagos discursos – que isso não se trata de uma esperança insensata. Não apenas porque foi alcançado em Nova York, Boston, Bogotá e várias outras cidades do mundo, mas principalmente porque, no Brasil, reduziu-se a violência em lugares em que isso era mais improvável: no Jardim Ângela, bairro da periferia da cidade de São Paulo que chegou a ser considerado o bairro mais violento do mundo, e em Diadema, que deixou de ser em quatro anos a cidade mais violenta de São Paulo, passando a ocupar o 18º posto.
Se você não pretende se deixar levar pelo desencanto, pela frustração, pelo ceticismo e pela desesperança, leia este livro. Entenderá, com base em experiências reais, que é possível, sem ilusões voluntaristas, apelos messiânicos e excessos e abusos no exercício da autoridade do Estado, mostrar aos bandidos armados que essa é uma longa guerra de muitas batalhas, mas que, ao fim e ao cabo, eles não só não podem ganhá-la, como a estão perdendo – e a perderão.
2008 - 208 páginas - 16 x 23 cm - R$ 35,00 - ISBN: 978-85-7740-046-1
Lêdo IVO
Pinturas de Gonçalo IVO
Desenho de Gianguido BONFANTI
O poema narra a visão da infância guardada pela memória. Obra de perda e despedida, seus versos longos se desdobram como as ondas do mar alagoano. Música e imagem se fundem para exprimir uma reflexão sobre o sentido da existência, da qual as pinturas de Gonçalo Ivo não são comentário ou simples ilustração.
2008 - 64 páginas - 16,8 x 24,5 cm - R$ 38,00 - ISBN: 978-85-7740-040-9
Katia MACIEL (org.)
37 textos de teóricos e artistas que compõem, em suas inter-relações, amplo panorama sobre as novas situações de cinema, em que superfícies híbridas de luz e movimento se conjugam com a participação e a imersão dos espectadores. A introdução da organizadora define o título do livro.
2009 - 432 páginas - 16 x 23 cm - R$ 65,00 - ISBN: 978-85-7740-009-3
Contact : Araken GOMES RIBEIRO
Les Pilles
26110 Nyons
France
www.africultures.com
The objective of the Africultures association is to develop knowledge and recognition of contemporary African cultural expressions, be they from Africa or already present in the multiplicity of western societies, through a quarterly magazine and a set of websites.
In collaboration with African journalists and writers, Africultures has a network of correspondents covering the whole African continent, as well as two editorial teams, one in France and the other in Africa.
Thierno Ibrahima DIA et. al.
« Comment construire ensemble un monde meilleur pour tous ? » C’est la question fondamentale qui traverse l’œuvre de Sembène Ousmane, cinéaste-écrivain sénégalais. Il répond par le principe Ubuntu (« je suis parce que tu es », chez les Bantous) : autocritique, engagement, servir (et non se servir de) la communauté humaine, critique de l’Histoire et vision universaliste. Sembène Ousmane est incontournable pour la compréhension des cultures africaines, la représentation des femmes, de la politique et de la marginalité. Il laisse une œuvre dense (films et écrits) que les auteurs (universitaires, journalistes, écrivains, cinéastes) ont ici à cœur de « jardiner » pour la rendre encore plus accessible.
N°76 - 2009 - 216 pages - revue - 21,55 € - ISBN: 978-2-296-08064-5
Olivier BARLET, Tanella BONI, Philomène-Nicole CARTON, Melissa THACKWAY
“Féminisme(s) en Afrique et dans la Diaspora” est le fruit d’un appel à contributions lancé en mai 2008 sur internet, dans les universités et cercles féministes de France, d’Angleterre, d’Afrique et d’Amérique du Nord. Témoignage de l’intérêt que lui ont porté les lecteurs et chercheurs, ce numéro d’Africultures propose une coupe transversale de l’histoire, de l’état des recherches, et des débats actuels sur la condition féminine africaine et diasporique. La cause des femmes est-elle universelle? Le féminisme pourrait-il s’affranchir de l’histoire, de la culture, des hiérarchies sociales ainsi que des facteurs économiques et politiques ? Quels sont les enjeux des mouvements féministes du XXIe siècle ? Théoriciens, historiens, chercheurs, critiques, journalistes et travailleurs sociaux ont tenté de répondre à ces questions. En regard des articles réunis dans ce dossier, se trouve une série d’illustrations issues d’expositions traitant de la femme noire. Provenant du Musée Dapper, du Hood Museum of Art et du Centre for Contemporary Art de Lagos, ces œuvres ajoutent à l’interprétation du vécu féminin et du féminisme, à travers des formes de représentations visuelles africaines et diasporiques.
N° 74 - 2009 - revue - 21,55 € - ISBN : 978-2-296-08063-8
Dossier coordonné par Cédric VINCENT
Des manifestations festivalières d’envergure internationale et régionale se multiplient depuis une vingtaine d’années sur le continent africain. Parmi celles-ci on trouve aussi bien des méga-productions qui reflètent les tendances de l’art international que des manifestations plus modestes, porteuses d’une gamme variée et étendue d’expressions. Puissants opérateurs de mondialisation pour l’Afrique postcoloniale, ces festivals agissent aussi comme une focale permettant d’observer les dynamiques sociales qui se jouent aux croisements des logiques internes aux milieux artistiques et des logiques externes des attentes politiques et économiques.
Ce dossier d’Africultures propose des pistes pour comprendre les enjeux qui se concentrent dans la mise en relation entre les sphères artistiques, leurs publics et les instances de pouvoir. Il s’appuie aussi bien sur l’analyse historique des festivals organisés pour accompagner la construction des jeunes États indépendants que sur les biennales d’art contemporain qui ont fleuri depuis la deuxième moitié des années 1980.
N° 73 - mai 2008 - 248 pages - revue - 21,55 € - ISBN : 978-2-296-05465-3
Contact : Olivier BARLET
Old Music Hall, 106-108 Cowley Road
Oxford, OX4 1JE
United Kingdom
Tél: +44 (0)1865 403156 / +44 (0)1865 403345
www.newint.org
An independent, not-for-profit media co-operative, New Internationalist is a voice that empowers. We tell the stories that the mainstream media sidestep and offer a platform for the people living those stories. Our award-winning magazine, books and website set the agenda for a radically fairer future, promote global justice and campaign for the disadvantaged all over the world.
New Internationalist books span activism, current affairs, children’s and adult fiction, education, ethical living, photography and world food.
We used to be called the Internationalist. We became the New Internationalist in 1973! New perspectives on what it means to be a global citizen are needed now as much as ever. Internationalism guides everything we do as we believe in the interdependency of all people and all things. Now with our recent merger with Myriad our mission is to explore new ways of seeing.
Ruth WALTON
An educational resource to help children explore the issue of fair trade by allowing them to see through the eyes of the children of banana farmers in the Windward Islands. The author spent time with the farmers’ families and she uses the real-life narratives of two young children going about their daily activities to show how bananas grow, problems such as hurricanes which can affect the crop, how they are picked and transported and how they end up in our stores.
The main story is illustrated with colorful collages made from painted textures and photographs from the Islands. Interspersed in the story are boxes with maps, facts and photos giving more detail on the places and methods and challenges. Its ends with banana recipes and ’bigger picture’ descriptions, maps and photos of where bananas come from and examples of social premium funded projects.
With plenty of points for discussion Juliana’s Bananas will give girls and boys an insight into the lives of children like them in the Caribbean and how fair trade premiums help communities all over the world build better living conditions.
Ruth WALTON is skilled in many areas of book design, including illustration, layout and typography. She produces educational books using a combination of letterpress, illustration, collage and photography. She illustrated the “Let’s Find Out series” for Franklin WATTS.
September 2014 - pages: 32 - 212 x 178 mm (landscape) - price: £8.99 / £9.95 - ISBN: 978-1-78026-1-805 (eBook ISBN: 978-1-78026-181-2)
Richard SWIFT
An investigation of the alternatives to capitalism, including socialism, anarchism and deep ecology.
Financial collapse and crisis; disgust at bankers’ greed; the devastating effects of yawning inequality: all these and more have led to widespread dissatisfaction and disenchantment with capitalism. people are crying out for an alternative but are continually told that one does not exist.
Richard SWIFT proves this to be wrong with style and assurance. With capitalism vulnerable and out-of-step in the wake of financial crises this book investigates the alternatives that are on offer - including socialism, social democracy, anarchism, ecology and degrowth.
Combining the practical with the visionary, he shows that finding alternatives to capitalism is no longer an academic issue for the left – it is an urgent planetary necessity.
Richard SWIFT is a former editor of New Internationalist magazine and author of the “No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy”. In 2011 he won the Daniel Singer Millenium Prize for an original essay which helps further socialist ideas.
April 2014 - pages: 208 - 216 x 138 mm (paperback) - price: £9.99 / $16.95 - ISBN: 9781780261706 (eBook ISBN: 978-1-78026-171-3)
Peter HUDSON
The author has been visiting the same village in Mauritania on the remote edge of the Sahara for over twenty years. This is the story of his most recent journey there – an intense and engaging day-by-day account through which global change and inequality are made human.
The Sahel – the ‘shore’ of the Sahara – is where cultures, customs and climates meet, merge and clash. Through the numerous characters we meet and from the obviously deep and sympathetic nature of the relationship the author has with the local people, with whom he now runs agricultural projects, we learn of the realities of life in one of the harshest, most marginalised and but also quietly inspiring corners of the world.
Searingly honest and refreshing, this is a superbly written piece of travel writing about a little-known part of the world. The author gets under the surface and gives a sensitive account of what life is like. He understands not just the culture and complex social dealings but also how economics and geo-political forces that can profoundly affect the lives of individuals in a remote community.
Illustrated with maps and line drawings “Under An African Sky” is a unique journey – for the armchair traveller and those interested in development, climate change and global politics and economics.
Peter HUDSON runs an international development charity based in Mauritania in West Africa. He has travelled widely in the region and has written several books including “Leaf in the Wind”, “Travels in Mauritania” and “Two Rivers”.
September 2014 - pages: 240 - 216 x 138 mm (paperback) - price: £9.99 / $16.95 - ISBN: 978-1-78026-178-2 (eBook ISBN: 978-1-78026-179-9)
Calle 2 número 21
San Pedro de los Pinos
03800 México, D.F.
Mexico
Tél: +(52 55) 5515 1657
www.edicionesdelermitano.com
Ediciones del Ermitaño, Editorial Division of Solar Servicios Editoriales, is backed by the experience and prestige of over 29 years in the market and a growing collection of poetry, short stories, novels, and other genres. When the possibility of using digital technology emerged in the editorial world, Ediciones del Ermitaño was the first to create a collection that fully takes advantage of that technology. And so “Minimalia”, our main collection, was born, in which we have published over 250 titles and which has sold thousands of copies. We never run out of any title, since we have the capacity to reprint according to the needs and demand; this has allowed us to open the doors to many young writers who have been able to publish their first, and very promising, works, side by side with the accomplished writers that also are part of our catalog. Thus, the “Minimalia” collection has been a pioneer and a platform for experimentation that established the example and marked new guidelines. It is a collection that explores and explodes the new digital technologies surrounding composition and production, in order to create new paradigms that carry the word from the authors to ultimately thousands of readers.
Contact : Alejandro ZENKER
4 rue Imilchil – CIL
Casablanca 20200
Morocco
Tél: +21 25 22 36 68 43
www.editionsdusirocco.wixsite.com/accueil
Sirocco publishing was created in 2007 in Casablanca to support, unearth, and amplify Moroccan voices of yesterday or today. Their editorial choices are essentially guided by a passion for Morocco, its history, its heritage, its culture in its various expressions, without excluding other perspectives from the southern Mediterranean. Their list, including some co-publishing projects, is francophone and generalist. It is unique in that it reflects the enthusiasm of discoveries and encounters, built at their own pace. Recipient in 2013 of the Grand Atlas Prize (category Francophone essays) awarded to one of their publications, Sirocco Publishing now also publishes literature.
Sirocco parce que comme le vent (plutôt appelé « chergui » au Maroc mais la consonance du mot Sirocco me plaisait mieux), nos titres viennent « du sud » (de la Méditerranée, leurs auteurs ou leurs thèmes), et j’espère qu’ils soufflent chaud.
Read here the interview with Karine Joseph, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (February 10, 2017)
Kenza SEFRIOUI
« Une étude pionnière consacrée à une revue maghrébine » [Salim Jay] qui questionne une période essentielle de l’histoire du Maroc.
Créée à Rabat en mars 1966 par un petit groupe de jeunes poètes d’expression française, Souffles a été, tout au long de ses sept années d’existence, une tribune singulière dans le paysage de la presse marocaine, en évoluant du laboratoire d’écriture, où les lecteurs découvrirent notamment Tahar Ben Jelloun ou Mohammed Khaïr- Eddine, à l’engagement culturel et politique.
Avec son projet de restructuration de la culture nationale, elle a porté un véritable mouvement littéraire et intellectuel, avant de devenir la tribune du mouvement marxiste-léniniste. Disparue en 1972, après l’arrestation d’Abdellatif Laâbi et d’Abraham Serfati, son histoire, retracée au travers des textes et des témoignages de ses contributeurs, montre que sa vision moderniste et progressiste invitait à des questionnements toujours d’actualité.
4è de couverture (extrait)
… cette revue, qui aurait pu vivre la vie tranquille d’un cénacle de poètes et d’artistes… a réussi, elle, en une série d’avancées de la conscience, à opérer deux ruptures essentielles : l’une dans le champ culturel et esthétique, l’autre dans le champ politique… »
Abdellatif Laâbi (Extrait de la préface)
Kenza SEFRIOUI, née à Paris en 1979, est journaliste et critique littéraire. Responsable pendant cinq ans de la rubrique littéraire du magazine marocain Le Journal hebdomadaire, elle collabore aujourd’hui notamment au site des cultures méditerranéennes Babelmed, et milite pour le développement culturel au Maroc.
De sa thèse de doctorat en littérature comparée consacrée à Souffles, elle donne aujourd’hui une étude rigoureuse en même temps qu’un récit passionnant qui plonge le lecteur au cœur de la revue et de ses engagements « ardents ».
Mars 2013 - 458 pages - 15 x 22 cm - broché - 90 MAD - ISBN : 978-9954-9187-0-8
Essai
Textes recueillis à Marrakech et traduits par Doctoresse LÉGEY
« J’ai recueilli tous ces contes à Marrakech. Plus heureuse que nombre de folkloristes qui ont dû s’adresser à des intermédiaires, j’ai fait ma récolte directement dans les principaux harems de Marrakech, sur la place de Jâma ‘el-Fna ‘, auprès des conteurs publics ou dans mon cabinet, où venaient s’asseoir et causer Si El-Hasan ou Lalla ‘Abbouch.
Je transcrivais ces contes en français, au fur et à mesure qu’ils m’étaient
contés et, ensuite, pour être bien sûre de n’avoir fait aucune erreur d’interprétation, oublié aucune expression particulière, je les redisais à mon tour en arabe à mes conteurs. Je puis donc affirmer que la version que je donne est aussi près que possible du conte entendu. »
D. LÉGEY (extrait de la 4e de couverture)
Mme LÉGEY, médecin au Maroc à partir de 1910 et pendant plus de 25 ans, y a soigné des milliers de personnes et contribué à installer des dispensaires et maternités dans plusieurs villes du pays. Par sa collecte de contes et légendes, aux sources les plus authentiques, leur traduction et leur publication, elle permet aux francophones d’accéder à l’imaginaire d’un peuple.
« Apprentie folkloriste », comme elle se définissait elle-même, Mme Légey participe aussi à la préservation d’un riche patrimoine. (En 2001, l’espace culturel de la place Jemaa el-Fna de Marrakech a été proclamé par l’UNESCO : chef-d’œuvre du patrimoine oral et immatériel de l’humanité.)
Parution Maroc : novembre 2007 ; 2è tirage : janvier 2010 - réédition, édition originale 1926 - 368 pages - 13,5 x 21 cm - 18 € - ISBN : 978-9954-8851-0-2
Hanane OULAÏLLAH JAZOUANI (texte et illustrations)
À vous de voter les enfants !
À Fanidi, petit village du Maroc, une élection est organisée pour choisir le maire junior. Pour qui voteras-tu ?
Collection “p’tit citoyen (… deviendra grand !)”
Une collection qui propose aux enfants de réfléchir à la vie ensemble, de se préparer à devenir un citoyen responsable : se préoccuper, se comporter et agir selon l’intérêt commun.
Des messages essentiels, la notion de citoyenneté, ses enjeux, au travers d’histoires et d’activités qui font, doucement et joliment, grandir.
Des livres gaiement illustrés pour que lire et réfléchir riment aussi avec plaisir !
Hanane OULAÏLLAH JAZOUANI est une jeune auteur et illustratrice franco-marocaine, née en Normandie après que ses parents aient quitté le Maroc dans les années 1970 pour commencer une nouvelle vie en France. Après des études artistiques en Grande-Bretagne, Hanane décide de s’installer à Casablanca. Elle y travaille comme journaliste et crée les personnages des Mounikettes, exposés dans plusieurs villes du Maroc ainsi qu’en France, et également publiés dans la presse marocaine. En 2011, elle a remporté le 1er prix du concours littéraire « Une mer de mots ».
32 pages - 17 illustrations, dont une à colorier - 60 MAD - ISBN : 978-9954-494-12-7
Disponible en français et en arabe - à partir de 7 ans
Contact : Karine JOSEPH
Box 121, Rondebosch, 7701
Cape Town
South Africa
Tél: +27 72 77435 46
www.modjajibooks.co.za
Modjaji Books is an independent feminist press that publishes southern African women writers. Modjaji Books fills a gap by providing a platform for serious and ground-breaking writing by new and established women writers with brave voices. We publish short stories, novels, memoir, biography, poetry, essays, narrative non-fiction, reference books and relevant non-fiction.
The history of publishing in South Africa is enmeshed with the culture of resistance that flourished under apartheid. Struggle literature may have emerged from the underground, but women’s voices and particularly black women’s voices – are still marginalized. Modjaji Books addressed this inequality by publishing books that are true to the spirit of Modjaji, the rain queen: a powerful female force for good, new life and regeneration.
In a few short years, Modjaji titles have won a number of prizes or been short-listed for prizes. The prizes include the Ingrid Jonker prizes for debut poetry, short-listings for the Sunday Times fiction prize, several SALA prizes as well as a short-listing for the Caine Prize.
Modjaji is the name of the Rain Queen in the northern part of South Africa. As South Africa is mostly a dry country - rain is very important!
Read here an interview of Colleen HIGGS, Read African Books (African Books Collective).
Karen LAZAR
“Home is as old as one’s skin but as elusive as an object seen through the wrong end of a telescope.” It is this sense of a view, skewed, intangible, which echoes throughout Karen Lazar’s Hemispheres. Waking in hospital after a post-operative stroke, she finds one side of her body paralysed and her world knocked out of kilter. Spatial, perceptual and subjective changes force her to view her new life in facets. The fragmented view is made apparent by means of a triptych of clusters which charts Karen’s experience from Metamorphosis, through Rehabilitation and Adaptation. Quietly reflective, deeply lyrical, Hemispheres is concerned with returning separated parts into a whole and coming home to the self.
Praise from Isabel Hofmeyr, Professor of African Literature, Wits University:
“ ‘A stroke on one hemisphere of the brain crosses over to manifest … on the opposite side of the body’.
What does it mean to find oneself suddenly living at this lethal crossing? This exquisite book illuminates how to live with and beyond loss. A superb filigree of acute and finely-crafted pieces, Hemispheres narrates the journey of re-composing life, joy and love from the ‘foreign citadel’ of a body made alien through stroke.
Wry, ironic, comic, joyous, desolate, celebratory, surreal, this mosaic of feeling reconfigures love from loss; each subtle fragment a tessera against time.
As the pieces delve deep into the self, they reach beyond it. The rehabilitation hospital reeks of personal loss even as it becomes a microcosm of contemporary South Africa. Broken bodies deformed by carnage and violence accumulate in the ward. The medical hierarchy enacts deep-seated forms of South African authoritarianism, the losses of the past inflicted and self-inflicted in petty and cruel ways.
The book becomes a quiet odyssey of affirming life in the face of death. The pieces themselves, weightless and profound, light and dark, half and whole, mirror the contradictions of wrenching life from loss.”
Praise from Joanne Fedler:
“A collection of rare/nuanced and tender insights. Lazar takes us into the gyre of re-orientation post-stroke, sharing what is lost and what is claimed when what you’ve always been and known, changes. A book that pulses with quiet courage and celebrates it in others.”
Karen LAZAR is an English educator at the Wits School of Education. Her MA and Phd, both from Wits, are in South African gender studies. This is Karen’s first volume of (first person) creative nonfiction. Karen had a stroke in 2001, from which she has partially recovered. She lives in Johannesburg.
Publication date: May 2011 - 88 pages - format:136 x 210 mm - price: R145 - ISBN: 978-1-920397-24-1
Jennifer THORPE (author and editor) - the contributors include: Jen THORPE, Karabo KGOLENG (well known radio and media personality), Sarah BRITTEN, and Dorothy BLACK, as well as many other women.
Do you remember your first time?
As women, we all have a story within us about a sexual experience that was unforgettable. Perhaps it was incredible, earth shattering, life-changing, and wonderful. Perhaps it wasn’t romantic or pleasurable, but awkward, painful or forced upon us. Many of us have kept our experiences secret because, by exposing our stories, we expose ourselves and our feelings around sex.
In My First Time, Southern African women have shared their stories about their significant first time experiences of sex and sexuality. This is a collection of honest, powerful, and brave accounts. Some joyful, others funny and some heartbreaking, but all of them important for women, and hopefully men, to read.
This is the perfect book for you to read to reflect on your own first times. This is the perfect book to share with your mother, siblings, and friends.
Jennifer THORPE is a feminist writer. She’s passionate about sharing women’s stories and women’s writing. She is the creator and curator of stories for the My First Time project and the editor of FeministsSA.com. Jennifer has an MA in Politics from Rhodes University and is studying towards an MA in Creative Writing at UCT. She lives in Cape Town with her boyfriend Mike and her two cats.
Publication date: September 2012 - 174 pages - format: 136 X 210 mm - price: R160 - ISBN: 978-1-920590048
Yewande OMOTOSO
Praise for Bom Boy from Nuruddin Farah, author of Links, Knots & Crossbones:
"This is a novel bursting with elegance, written by a young author
brimming with genuine promise. Yewande Omotoso is a stylist with a
literary vision."
Praise for Bom Boy from Joanne Hichens, author of Divine Justice:
’Bom Boy surprises and delights, sings at turns, as it straddles the past and the present, bringing into focus cultural beliefs while examining the intimacies and complexities of bonds of family and friendship. What strikes me most is the originality. This fine debut, firmly rooted in contemporary consciousness, is story-telling of note which whets the appetite for more.’
Leke is a troubled young man living in the suburbs of Cape Town. He develops strange habits of stalking people, stealing small objects and going from doctor to doctor in search of companionship rather than cure. Through a series of letters written to him by his Nigerian father whom he has never met, Leke learns about a family curse; a curse which his father had unsuccessfully tried to remove. Bom Boy is a well-crafted and complex narrative written with a sensitive understanding of both the smallness and magnitude of a single life.
Yewande OMOTOSO was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria with her Nigerian father, West Indian mother and two older brothers. She and her family moved to South Africa in 1992 and have lived there ever since. She is an architect; space and buildings being a passion of hers second only to words and literature. She currently lives in Cape Town working as a designer, freelance writer and novelist.
Publication date: September 2011 - 272 pages - format: 135 X 210 mm - price: R180 - ISBN: 978-1-920397-35-7
Contact : Colleen HIGGS
Graines de Pensées publishing aims to contribute to the cultural expression of Africa, to the development of critical thinking and of a democratic and pluralistic society through the book.
They are concerned with offering accessible books to African children, adapted to their realities and aspirations and of impeccable editorial quality. In addition, for a better dissemination of the book, they participate in co-publishing projects with partners from the South and the North. They also work for synergies with institutions and companies for a better promotion of the book in French and African languages.
Graines de Pensées publishing started their activities in 2005 with a solid editorial experience and broad network of contacts in the French and English editorial sectors through the International Organization of the Francophonie, the African Training Centre for Publishing and Dissemination (CAFED), the Network of African Publishers (APNET) and the Afrilivres Association.
Contact : Yasmin ISSAKA-COUBAGEAT
Box 45095
SE - 104 30 Stockholm
Sweden
Tél: (+46-08) 32 30 80
www.ferdosi.com
Based in Stockholm and founded in 1984, Ferdosi has, in addition to being a publisher, been a key distributor and supplier of books and periodicals.
We cooperate with publishers and distributors throughout the world in order to provide individual and organizational clients with their requests and demands, through our contact services and multilingual website. Ferdosi has a broad list of Persian books published throughout the past 30 years by a range of publishers outside Iran. The list is available on Ferdosi´s website and can be searched by the title, name of the writer, etc.
Ferdosi works with libraries worldwide as a main supplier for minority languages published outside the country of origin. Individual customers equally benefit from our service through Ferdosi´s website.
As a publisher, Ferdosi has published valuable books in Persian and Swedish, mostly dealing with Persian literature, or informative texts about Iran and the Middle East.
Ferdosi publishes a Persian-Swedish magazine under the title of Norrsken (Northern Light), which is intended to be a step toward preserving Persian literature and culture among Farsi speaking and non-Iranians interested in Persian language and culture.
Ferdosi is the name of Iranian national poet who wrote the famous book for Shahnameh to rescue Persian language from Arabic influence.
89 rue du Ruisseau
75018 Paris
France
Tél: +33 (0)1 42 64 44 21
www.naakojaa.com
Naakojaa is a digital publisher based in France that launched in February 2012 with the aim of creating greater access for the audience of Persian literature.
Based on our readers’ embrace of world literature on digital platforms, we, too, decided to keep up with technology to help Persian speakers around the world.
Audiences now can legally and easily purchase Persian literature from iTunes and Amazon.
Statistics show that these digital platforms are becoming more popular because of accessibility and the ability to publish easily, which makes it possible to be sold for a reasonable price while protecting authors’ rights under copyright law.
Contact : Tinouche NAZMJOU
El Retiro 4853
7630227 Vitacura
Santiago
Chile
Tél: (+56) 2 3253148 / (+56) 2 3260104
www.jcsaezeditor.blogspot.fr
At the time of its foundation in 1920, JC Sáez Editor (formerly Dolmen Ediciones) was a publishing house specialising in textbooks and extracurricular books. It is now specialised in the dissemination of ideas in key areas of modernity, such as humanities, biology, pedagogy, economics and management. JC Sáez Editor’s catalogue also includes emerging voices and renowned authors from Chile’s national body of literature (poetry, essays), and comic strips, general trade literature, which enables it to go beyond continental borders with a rich and varied offer. To secure its diffusion, JC Sáez Editor relies on a distribution and collaboration network at local level in the main Latino-American capital cities.
Rafael Echeverría
Marx sostuvo que, a diferencia del socialismo utópico del pasado y de varias propuestas socialistas y anarquistas de su época, su contribución se caracterizaba por ser científica. Su aporte teórico cruzaba del pantanoso terreno doctrinario al territorio firme de la ciencia. El pensamiento marxiano, proclamaba el mismo Marx, tenía estatus científico. Ese era, según él, su rasgo distintivo fundamental. Ese mismo rasgo fue posteriormente uno de los grandes atractivos que para muchos teóricos parecía ofrecer el marxismo. Sin embargo, en aras del rigor, cabe preguntarse: ¿Cuáles son los criterios de cientificidad en los que se sustenta esta afirmación? ¿Cuál es el concepto de ciencia que propone Marx? ¿Se ciñe su contribución a dicho concepto?
Los ensayos reunidos en este libro, que pretenden dar respuesta a estos interrogantes cruciales, forman parte de la investigación que Echeverría realizara a fines de la década de los setenta y que sirvió de base para su tesis doctoral en la Universidad de Londres. Hoy, por primera vez, son presentados en un mismo volumen. Las conclusiones a las que arriba el autor no dejarán de sorprendernos y difícilmente nos dejarán indiferentes. Esperamos que sean capaces de suscitar reacciones y debates, de manera de avanzar en una evaluación que permita situar la obra del gran pensador que fue Marx en un lugar apropiado, más allá de la idolatría o de la demonización.
310 páginas - 22,50 dólares - ISBN: 9789563060843
Francisco Varela
“Lo que he querido desarrollar en estos ensayos es una comprensión del fenómeno de la vida en toda su gloria y majestad. Esto quiere decir evitar caer en la tentación dominante de partir del universo impersonal y muerto de la física para luego verse forzado, casi a contrapelo, a rescatar de ahí lo vivo, cuya especificidad es lo individual creador de significado. Gran parte de la ideas que aquí presento son precisamente el esfuerzo por romper ese sueño newtoniano, y por recentrar el fenómeno de la vida sobre sus propias bases, es decir, no como evento improbable que escapa a la muerte física, sino como ocurrencia central de la naturaleza que funda todo conocer y, en particular, el conocimiento del mundo físico. La conclusión a la que estos ensayos apuntan es que lo central es una circularidad inalienable entre el acto de conocer y vivir, entre el universo de lo vivo y el conocer como objeto de estudio. Dicho de otra manera, el fenómeno de la vida, como un todo, quiere decir, precisamente, que el acto de vivir precede a la explicación del origen de la vida sobre la Tierra. Que el conocer precede a la comprensión del conocer visto como mecanismo biológico y neuronal. Que la experiencia vivida es la base misma de la exploración científica de la conciencia.”
474 páginas - 31,75 dolares - ISBN: 9789563060812
Cristián Reyes
El proyecto denominado “Herramientas para la Formación de Profesores de Matemáticas”, tiene como objetivo contribuir al mejoramiento de la calidad de la formación pedagógica y disciplinaria de los estudiantes de pedagogía en matemática, a través de la incorporación de una Metodología de Estudio de Casos y el desarrollo de una colección de Monografías de contenidos matemáticos.
243 páginas - 25,02 dolares - ISBN: 9789563060782
Contact : Juan Carlos SÁEZ
Jahn Str. 24
50676 Cologne
Germany
Tél: (+49-221) 923 57 07
www.forough-book.com
Forough Publications and bookshop were founded in 1998 by the Mehdipour family in Cologne, Germany, with the aim to publish books that were banned in Iran.
Murder of Kasravi was the first book published by Forough in 1998. The intention was to publicize the truth about the death of Ahmad Kasravi, the Iranian famous critic of Islam. They continued their work by publishing memoirs of ex-prisoners of the Iranian Islamic regime.
Forough Publications now follows three orientations: literature, humanities and social sciences, and information. The publishing house wishes to call attention to Persian-language literature, but it also translates, publishes, and distributes works by German authors like The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink and The Fall of the Islamic World by Hamed Abdel-Samad.
Forough Publications has published more than 150 titles in different genres such as poetry, novels, children’s books, biography, and nonfiction books.
In addition, Forough supports the Persian educational programs outside of Iran by publishing and internationally distributing Persian textbooks.
Samad BEHRANGI - Translated to German by B. BINIAZ
Asad SEIF
Asaf SEIF (born in 1957 in Bandar Anzali) is an Iranian writer and researcher. He has been living in Europe since 1984 and is engaged in literary and cultural activities. He is a member of Iranian writers in exile association and was a member of its board of editors for one term. He has published numerous articles and studies in the field of social analysis and literary criticism. His latest study on “Love in fiction by Iranian writers in exile” is published by Forough Publications.
14 euros - ISBN: 978-3-943147-10-0
Aramesh DOSTDAR
Aramesh DOSTDAR (born in 1932 in Tehran) is an Iranian philosopher, writer, scholar and a former philosophy lecturer at Tehran University. He moved to Germany in 1958 to study philosophy in University of Bonn. From 1973 to 1980 he taught philosophy in the University of Tehran, until his dissmision during closure of universities by the Islamic government in the so called Cultural Revolution. Aramesh Dustdar who is currently living in Germany, is probably one of the few Iranian philosophers in the western meaning of the word. He is known for both complexity of the language but clarity and precision of ideas expressed. .
Four of his books have been published in Persian, 2 of them “Dark Luminosities” and “The Hidden Kinship” by Forough Publications.
He is uncompromising on controversial and sensitive issues such as incompatibility between Islam and democracy or the situation of intellectuals in the Muslim world, as, in his view, a real, Western type intellectual can not be tolerated in any Muslim society.
The murders of political and intellectual dissidents and opponents in the Islamic Republic of Iran are a “brilliant” example of that antagonism between Islam and democracy, he points out.
443 pages - 22 euros - ISBN: 978-3-943147-09-4
Contact : Anahita MEHDIPOUR
Responsable : Hamid MEHDIPOUR
Atlas Publishing was established in the late 1950s by Samar Haddad’s father, the present director of the publishing house. Atlas was one of the first bookshops in Damascus. In 1963, academic books were among the first works on its publishing list, followed shortly by many other titles. In 2002 Samar Haddad became the editor of Atlas and gradually took over as the head of the company. She remained true to her father’s motto: the book is the premier tool of knowledge and should therefore be within everyone’s reach. Atlas Publishing set up a translation division and a distribution division, while continuing to publish titles of relevance to readers, in keeping with an editorial policy promoting quality and the highest standards of technical production.
Atlas in Greek Mythology is the Titan who is condemned to hold the earth for eternity, and our logo shows him holding the Globe in one hand and a book in the other hand. This is the idea of my late father the founder of Atlas Publishers back in the fifties.
Read here the interview with Samar Haddad, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (November 3, 2016).
Michael SOMMER
Translated from German by Dr. Nabil Al Haffar
In this brief research, ancient civilization scholar Michel Sommer provides an exemplary model of a study in the science of history, which assimilated Assmann’s ideas about the theoretical field productively. Concerning the civilizational history of the region extending between the Mediterranean and the Tigris River, in the late Greek and Greek times, it is a sensitive and controversial research in fact, not because it explores the historical roots of the civilization region, which the Romans called Syria - and it is today implicitly and brutally involved in gang and proxy wars, in a form of “third world war”, according to the diagnosis of many observers - but because in his analysis of social models and religious systems in the late Greek and Greek era, he paints a new, humanistic picture of the different cultures of the empire and their intellectual status.
Michael Sommer has succeeded, by being realistic and exciting at the same time, in shedding lights on the past that shows every concrete detail as part of a tangled relationship, as it opens up horizons, that questions and doubts current “clichés”!
2020 - 224 pages - ISBN: 978- 9953 -583 -93-8
Boutros AL MAARI
This book offers pleasure to the eye as well as to the mind of the reader. Neither the texts are the basis for it nor the drawings, but rather they complement each other to produce an art book that we rarely find in our libraries. Al-Maari tries to be as simple as his paintings, simple in his texts and ideas that he calls stories and that are not without a poetic whiff or literary value. Damascus also is strongly present in his texts and he is not apologetic in showing his longing to his mother-city, so he celebrates it from a distance as if he is still walking in its streets and alleys like any young lover.
Through this book, Al-Maari tries to attract the ordinary audience - as he calls it – and lead them through the door of reading and savoring art from his simple yet sophisticated way of drawing and writing.
We hope that this experience will be a motivation for similar works by our writers and young artists, enriching our Arabic library.
2018 - 88 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-9242-6-3
Arabic
DOSTOEVKY
Translated from Russian by Adnan Jamous
Sheikh Hamad award for translation and international understanding for the achievement in Russian – Arabic translation
Doha – Qatar - 2018
This book includes a summary of rich experience, acquired by a creative person during his lifetime, with all the harsh tribulations and violent clashes, shameful slips, noble stances, and impressive creative achievements.
The writer monitored all the subtle aspects of the development of the “living life” and followed very carefully the reflection of its manifestations in the Russian and foreign press. Eyewitnesses state: that the writer used to review newspapers and magazines daily “until the last column of them”, and was keen to capture through the great diversity of important and secondary facts, its internal unity, its socio-psychological foundations, its spiritual-moral essence, and its philosophical-historical significance. It is interesting that some contemporary Russian intellectuals of Dostoyevsky considered that his genius was more evident in his “diaries” than in his “creative works”.
What gives this volume its added value, is that it is the first time that Dostoevsky is translated directly from Russian to Arabic.
2017 - 688 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-9242-1-8
Arabic
Contact : Samar HADDAD
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