BATON ROUGE, La., Nov. 6, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- An African attorney stands at the intersection of cultures - awashed in conflicting ideals and various influences that all affect the expression of his identity. Will he become the prosecutor or the advocate of exploitation? Find out in Camwood At Crossroads, an intriguing philosophical novel about forms of exploitation, written by Femi Euba.
Camwood At Crossroads tells about Olumofin, a Nigerian Attorney now living in the U.S., who stands at the intersection of culture-crossings implicating the fate of his African identity within the American world, especially that of his intended intimacy with an African-American Creole. In an attempt to come to terms with the past, initiated by present criminal currents in the news media regarding the depraved religious practices of his estranged father, he unleashes, through shifting thought processes that cross from Lagos to New Orleans, the demons of exploitation (humorous as well as tragic) that have defined his colonial upbringing and the cross-cultural paths of his future African-American in-laws.
Camwood At Crossroads is a philosophical novel that explores in various ways the ideological common ground between the exploiter and the exploited as a means of coming to terms with the frivolous and pervasive institutions of exploitations. It reveals that through ugliness, we may perceive the beautiful. This fascinating novel is now available for your reading pleasure. Just visit your local book retailer or online at Xlibris.com today.
About the Author
Professor of Theatre and English at Louisiana State University. Practicing playwright, director, actor and a scholar, Femi Euba received an MFA in Playwriting and Dramatic Literature, and an MA in African-American Studies from Yale, and a doctorate in English Literature from the University of Ife in Nigeria. His plays include the award-winning The Gulf, The Eye of Gabriel and several radio plays for the BBC Radio. Although he began writing short stories at an early age, Camwood at Crossroads as his first novel unreservedly adds fiction to his literary output as a creative artist.
CAMWOOD AT CROSSROADS * by Femi Euba
Publication Date: January 23, 2007
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