{ "title": { "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/homepage_banner.jpg", "alt": "Mapping Religion in the Global Anglophone Novel (MaRGAN)", "caption": null, "credit": "Mapping Religion in the Global Anglophone Novel (MaRGAN)" }, "text": { "headline": "Mapping Religion in the Global Anglophone Novel (MaRGAN) Timeline", "text": "Charting religious change through modern fiction" } }, "events": [ { "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_untouchable_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_untouchable_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand", "caption": "Untouchable", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan001.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1935" }, "text": { "headline": "Untouchable", "text": "Untouchable is a novel by Indian writer Mulk Raj Anand published in 1935. The novel established Anand as one of India's leading English authors. The book was inspired by his aunt's experience of being ostracized for sharing a meal with a Muslim woman. The plot of this book, Anand's first, revolves around the argument for eradicating the caste system. It depicts a day in the life of Bakha, a young \"sweeper\", who is \"untouchable\" due to his work of cleaning latrines. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_village_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_village_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The Village by Mulk Raj Anand", "caption": "The Village", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan002.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1939" }, "text": { "headline": "The Village", "text": "The Village is a novel by Mulk Raj Anand first published in 1939. This book was the first of a trilogy that included Across the Black Waters and The Sword and the Sickle. The plot centers on India's political structure, specifically the British rule and the independence movement. The novel revolves around Lal Singh a peasant in the Punjab, his antics going against social norms while in the village, his subsequent enrollment in the army and his troubles in the army, culminating in his return to the village. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_bless_me_ultima_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_bless_me_ultima_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya", "caption": "Bless Me, Ultima", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan003.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1972" }, "text": { "headline": "Bless Me, Ultima", "text": "Bless Me, Ultima is a coming-of-age novel by Rudolfo Anaya centering on Antonio Márez y Luna and his mentorship under his curandera and protector, Ultima. It has become the most widely read and critically acclaimed novel in the New Mexican literature canon since its first publication in 1972. Teachers across disciplines in middle schools, high schools and universities have adopted it as a way to implement multicultural literature in their classes. The novel reflects Hispano culture of the 1940s in rural New Mexico. Anaya's use of Spanish, mystical depiction of the New Mexican landscape, use of cultural motifs such as La Llorona, and recounting of curandera folkways such as the gathering of medicinal herbs, gives readers a sense of the influence of indigenous cultural ways that are both authentic and distinct from the mainstream. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_he_who_rides_a_tiger_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_he_who_rides_a_tiger_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for He Who Rides a Tiger by Bhabani Bhattacharya", "caption": "He Who Rides a Tiger", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan004.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1954" }, "text": { "headline": "He Who Rides a Tiger" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_go_tell_it_on_the_mountain_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_go_tell_it_on_the_mountain_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin", "caption": "Go Tell It on the Mountain", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan005.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1953" }, "text": { "headline": "Go Tell It on the Mountain", "text": "Go Tell It on the Mountain is a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin. It tells the story of John Grimes, an intelligent teenager in 1930s Harlem, and his relationship with his family and his church. The novel also reveals the back stories of John's mother, his biological father, and his violent, fanatically religious stepfather, Gabriel Grimes. The novel focuses on the role of the Pentecostal Church in the lives of African Americans, both as a negative source of repression and moral hypocrisy and a positive source of inspiration and community. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_secret_garden_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_secret_garden_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett", "caption": "The Secret Garden", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan006.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1911" }, "text": { "headline": "The Secret Garden", "text": "The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in The American Magazine. Set in England, it is seen as a classic of English children's literature. The American edition was published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company with illustrations by M. L. Kirk, and the British edition by Heinemann with illustrations by Charles Robinson. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_armed_with_madness_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_armed_with_madness_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for Armed with Madness by Mary Butts", "caption": "Armed with Madness", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan007.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1928" }, "text": { "headline": "Armed with Madness", "text": "Armed with Madness is a novel by Mary Butts first published in 1928 that incorporates Modernism and Psychoanalytical Criticism. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_ubik_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_ubik_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for Ubik by Phillip K. Dick", "caption": "Ubik", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan008.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1969" }, "text": { "headline": "Ubik", "text": "Ubik is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The story is set in a future 1992 where psychic powers are utilized in corporate espionage, while cryonic technology allows recently deceased people to be maintained in a lengthy state of hibernation. It follows Joe Chip, a technician at a psychic agency who begins to experience strange alterations in reality that can be temporarily reversed by a mysterious store-bought substance called Ubik. This work expands upon characters and concepts previously introduced in the vignette \"What the Dead Men Say\". (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_all_about_h_hatterr_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_all_about_h_hatterr_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani", "caption": "All About H. Hatterr", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan009.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1948" }, "text": { "headline": "All About H. Hatterr", "text": "All About H. Hatterr (1948) is a novel by G. V. Desani chronicles an Anglo-Malay man's adventures in search of wisdom and enlightenment. \"As far back as in 1951,\" Desani later wrote, \"I said H. Hatterr was a portrait of a man, the common vulgar species, found everywhere, both in the East and in the West\". (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_a_passage_to_india_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_a_passage_to_india_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for A Passage to India by E.M. Forster", "caption": "A Passage to India", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan010.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1924" }, "text": { "headline": "A Passage to India", "text": "A Passage to India is a 1924 novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th-century English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Time magazine included the novel in its \"All Time 100 Novels\" list. The novel is based on Forster's experiences in India, deriving the title from Walt Whitman's 1870 poem \"Passage to India\" in Leaves of Grass. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_dune_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_dune_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for Dune by Frank Herbert", "caption": "Dune", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan011.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1965" }, "text": { "headline": "Dune", "text": "Dune is a 1965 epic science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. It tied with Roger Zelazny's This Immortal for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966. It is the first installment of the Dune Chronicles. It is one of the world's best-selling science fiction novels. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_sunlight_on_a_broken_column_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_sunlight_on_a_broken_column_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for Sunlight on a Broken Column by Attia Hosain", "caption": "Sunlight on a Broken Column", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan012.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1961" }, "text": { "headline": "Sunlight on a Broken Column", "text": "Sunlight on a Broken Column is a novel by Attia Hosain, which was published in 1961. The novel, mainly set in Lucknow, is an autobiographical account by a fictional character called Laila, who is a 15-year-old orphaned daughter of a rich Muslim family of Taluqdars. It is a novel by a Muslim lady on the theme of Partition of India into India and Pakistan. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_moses_man_of_the_mountain_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_moses_man_of_the_mountain_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston", "caption": "Moses, Man of the Mountain", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan013.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1939" }, "text": { "headline": "Moses, Man of the Mountain", "text": "\n\nMoses, Man of the Mountain is a 1939 novel by African-American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. The novel rewrites the story of the Book of Exodus of Moses and the Israelites from an Afro-American perspective. The novel applies a number of different motifs and themes commonly addressed in African-American culture, subverting the Moses story. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_their_eyes_were_watching_god_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_their_eyes_were_watching_god_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston", "caption": "Their Eyes Were Watching God", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan014.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1937" }, "text": { "headline": "Their Eyes Were Watching God", "text": "Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. It is considered a classic of the Harlem Renaissance and Hurston's best-known work. The novel explores protagonist Janie Crawford's \"ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny.\" (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_a_portrait_of_the_artist_as_a_young_man_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_a_portrait_of_the_artist_as_a_young_man_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce", "caption": "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan015.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1916" }, "text": { "headline": "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", "text": "\n\nA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the second book and first novel of Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1916. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus, Greek mythology's consummate craftsman. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_ulysses_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_ulysses_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for Ulysses by James Joyce", "caption": "Ulysses", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan016.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1922" }, "text": { "headline": "Ulysses", "text": "Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. Partially serialised in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and a classic of the genre, having been called \"a demonstration and summation of the entire movement\". (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_dharma_bums_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_dharma_bums_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac", "caption": "The Dharma Bums", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan017.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1958" }, "text": { "headline": "The Dharma Bums", "text": "The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The basis for the novel's semi-fictional accounts are events occurring years after the events of On the Road. The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy Ryder, based on the poet and essayist Gary Snyder, who was instrumental in Kerouac's introduction to Buddhism in the mid-1950s. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_second_scroll_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_second_scroll_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The Second Scroll by A.M. Klein", "caption": "The Second Scroll", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan018.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1951" }, "text": { "headline": "The Second Scroll", "text": "The Second Scroll is a 1951 novel by the Jewish-Canadian writer A. M. Klein. Klein's only novel was written after his pilgrimage to the newly founded nation of Israel in 1949. It concerns the quest for meaning in the post-Holocaust world, as an unnamed narrator, a Montreal journalist, editor, poet and Zionist, who traveled to the State of Israel soon after its founding, searches for his long-lost uncle, Melech Davidson, a Holocaust survivor, in post-war Italy, Morocco, and Israel. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_prevalence_of_witches_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_prevalence_of_witches_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The Prevalence of Witches by Aubrey Menen", "caption": "The Prevalence of Witches", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan019.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1947" }, "text": { "headline": "The Prevalence of Witches" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_they_were_defeated_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_they_were_defeated_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for They Were Defeated by Rose Macaulay", "caption": "They Were Defeated", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan020.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1932" }, "text": { "headline": "They Were Defeated", "text": "They Were Defeated is a historical novel by Rose Macaulay, first published in 1932. It was published in the USA under the title The Shadow Flies. It was through the publication of the American edition that Macaulay got back in touch with her cousin, the Rev. John Hamilton Cowper Johnson, and thus began a correspondence that lasted until her death. The historian C V Wedgwood wrote the preface to a 1960 edition of the book, in which she reveals that the novel was written partly at the instigation of Macaulay's publisher, John Murray, who had asked for something to shed light on the background to her first novel, Abbots Verney (1906). (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_surrounded_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_surrounded_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The Surrounded by D'Arcy McNickle", "caption": "The Surrounded", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan021.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1936" }, "text": { "headline": "The Surrounded", "text": "The Surrounded, D’Arcy McNickle's first book, was first published in 1936 by Harcourt, Brace and Company then republished in 1964 and again in 1978 by the University of New Mexico Press. McNickle was a Cree Métis author enrolled as Salish-Kootenai on the Flathead Indian Reservation. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_corn_king_and_the_spring_queen_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_corn_king_and_the_spring_queen_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The Corn King and the Spring Queen by Naomi Mitchison", "caption": "The Corn King and the Spring Queen", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan022.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1931" }, "text": { "headline": "The Corn King and the Spring Queen" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_my_brothers_face_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_my_brothers_face_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for My Brother’s Face by Dhan Gopal Mukerji", "caption": "My Brother’s Face", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan023.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1924" }, "text": { "headline": "My Brother’s Face" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_guide_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_guide_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The Guide by R.K. Narayan", "caption": "The Guide", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan024.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1958" }, "text": { "headline": "The Guide", "text": "The Guide is a 1958 novel written in English by the Indian author R. K. Narayan. Like most of his works, the events of this novel take place in Malgudi, a fictional town in South India. The novel describes the transformation of the protagonist, Raju, from a tour guide to a spiritual guide and then one of the greatest holy men of India. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_a_glastonbury_romance_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_a_glastonbury_romance_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys", "caption": "A Glastonbury Romance", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan025.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1932" }, "text": { "headline": "A Glastonbury Romance", "text": "A Glastonbury Romance was written by John Cowper Powys (1872–1963) in rural upstate New York and first published by Simon and Schuster in New York City in March 1932. An English edition published by John Lane followed in 1933. It has \"nearly half-a-million words\" and was described as \"probably the longest undivided novel in English\". (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_excellent_women_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_excellent_women_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for Excellent Women by Barbara Pym", "caption": "Excellent Women", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan026.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1953" }, "text": { "headline": "Excellent Women", "text": "Excellent Women, the second published novel by Barbara Pym, first appeared from Jonathan Cape in 1952. A novel of manners, it is generally acclaimed as her funniest and most successful in that genre. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_chosen_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_chosen_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The Chosen by Chaim Potok", "caption": "The Chosen", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan027.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1967" }, "text": { "headline": "The Chosen", "text": "The Chosen is a novel written by Chaim Potok. It was first published in 1967. It follows the narrator, Reuven Malter, and his friend Daniel Saunders, as they grow up in the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1940s. A sequel featuring Reuven's young adult years, The Promise, was published in 1969. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_promise_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_promise_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The Promise by Chaim Potok", "caption": "The Promise", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan028.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1969" }, "text": { "headline": "The Promise", "text": "The Promise is a novel written by Chaim Potok, published in 1969. It is a sequel to his previous novel The Chosen. Set in 1950s New York, it continues the saga of the two friends, Reuven Malter, a Modern Orthodox Jew studying to become a rabbi, and Danny Saunders, a genius Hasidic Jew who has broken with his sect's tradition by refusing to take his father's place as rebbe in order to become a psychologist. The theme of the conflict between traditional and modern Orthodox Judaism that runs throughout The Chosen is expanded here against the backdrop of the changes that have taken place in Reuven and Danny's world in the period of time between the two novels: following World War II, European survivors of the Holocaust have come to America, rebuilding their shattered lives and often making their fiercely traditionalist religious viewpoint felt among their people. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_kanthapura_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_kanthapura_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for Kanthapura by Raja Rao", "caption": "Kanthapura", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan029.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1938" }, "text": { "headline": "Kanthapura" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_mumbo_jumbo_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_mumbo_jumbo_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed", "caption": "Mumbo Jumbo", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan030.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1972" }, "text": { "headline": "Mumbo Jumbo", "text": "Mumbo Jumbo is a 1972 novel by African-American author Ishmael Reed, originally published by Doubleday in New York. The novel has remained continuously in print in the decades since its first edition. It was first published in the UK by Allison and Busby, and has been published in translation in several languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, as well as a Chinese translation in 2019. The novel was released as a Penguin Modern Classic in 2017. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_st_urbains_horseman_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_st_urbains_horseman_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for St. Urbain’s Horseman by Mordecai Richler", "caption": "St. Urbain’s Horseman", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan031.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1971" }, "text": { "headline": "St. Urbain’s Horseman", "text": "St. Urbain's Horseman is the seventh novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler. First published in 1971 by McClelland & Stewart, it won the Governor General's Award for 1971. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_ceremony_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_ceremony_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko", "caption": "Ceremony", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan032.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1977" }, "text": { "headline": "Ceremony", "text": "Ceremony is a novel by Leslie Marmon Silko, a writer of Laguna Pueblo descent. It was published by Viking Press in 1977. The title Ceremony is based on the oral traditions and ceremonial practices of the Navajo and Pueblo people. The book helped secure Silko a MacArthur “genius” grant in 1981. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_ballad_of_peckham_rye_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_ballad_of_peckham_rye_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark", "caption": "The Ballad of Peckham Rye", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan033.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1960" }, "text": { "headline": "The Ballad of Peckham Rye", "text": "The Ballad of Peckham Rye is a novel written in 1960 by the British author Muriel Spark. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_girls_of_slender_means_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_girls_of_slender_means_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark", "caption": "The Girls of Slender Means", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan034.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1963" }, "text": { "headline": "The Girls of Slender Means", "text": "The Girls of Slender Means is a novella written in 1963 by British author Muriel Spark. It was included in Anthony Burgess's 1984 book Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice. In 2022, it was included on the \"Big Jubilee Read\" list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, selected to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_saguna_a_story_of_native_christian_life_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_saguna_a_story_of_native_christian_life_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for Saguna: A Story of Native Christian Life by Krupabai Satthianadhan", "caption": "Saguna: A Story of Native Christian Life", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan035.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1895" }, "text": { "headline": "Saguna: A Story of Native Christian Life" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_divorcing_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_divorcing_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for Divorcing by Susan Taubes", "caption": "Divorcing", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan036.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1969" }, "text": { "headline": "Divorcing" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_river_between_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_river_between_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o", "caption": "The River Between", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan037.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1965" }, "text": { "headline": "The River Between", "text": "The River Between is a 1965 novel by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o that was published as part of the influential Heinemann African Writers Series. It tells the story of the separation of two neighbouring villages of Kenya caused by differences in faith set in the decades of roughly the early 20th century. The bitterness between them caused much hatred between the adults of each side. The story tells about the struggle of a young leader, Waiyaki, to unite the two villages of Kameno and Makuyu through sacrifice and pain. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_palm-wine_drinkard_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_palm-wine_drinkard_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola", "caption": "The Palm-Wine Drinkard", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan038.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1952" }, "text": { "headline": "The Palm-Wine Drinkard", "text": "The Palm-Wine Drinkard is a novel published in 1952 by the Nigerian author Amos Tutuola. The first African novel published in English outside of Africa, this quest tale based on Yoruba folktales is written in a modified English or Pidgin English. In it, a man follows his brewer into the land of the dead, encountering many spirits and adventures. The novel has always been controversial, inspiring both admiration and contempt among Western and Nigerian critics, but has emerged as one of the most important texts in the African literary canon, translated into more than a dozen languages. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_column_of_dust_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_column_of_dust_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The Column of Dust by Evelyn Underhill", "caption": "The Column of Dust", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan039.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1909" }, "text": { "headline": "The Column of Dust" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_lolly_willowes_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_lolly_willowes_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner", "caption": "Lolly Willowes", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan040.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1926" }, "text": { "headline": "Lolly Willowes", "text": "Lolly Willowes; or The Loving Huntsman is a novel by English writer Sylvia Townsend Warner, her first, published in 1926. It has been described as an early feminist classic. It is a satirical social novel with fantastic elements, set in England at the beginning of the 20th century. It deals with the social restrictions on women as well as alternative ways of living during the interwar period. (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_undying_fire_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_undying_fire_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The Undying Fire by H.G. Wells", "caption": "The Undying Fire", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan041.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1919" }, "text": { "headline": "The Undying Fire", "text": "The Undying Fire, a 1919 novel by H. G. Wells, is a modern retelling of the story of Job. Like the Book of Job, it consists of a prologue in heaven, an exchange of speeches with four visitors, a dialogue between the protagonist and God, and an epilogue in which the protagonist's fortunes are restored. The novel is dedicated \"to All Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses and every Teacher in the World.\" (Source: Wikipedia)" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_hills_of_hebron_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_hills_of_hebron_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The Hills of Hebron by Sylvia Wynter", "caption": "The Hills of Hebron", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan042.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1962" }, "text": { "headline": "The Hills of Hebron" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_the_obeah_man_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_the_obeah_man_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for The Obeah Man by Ismith Khan", "caption": "The Obeah Man", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan043.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1964" }, "text": { "headline": "The Obeah Man" } },{ "media": { "url": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/small/cover_my_name_is_asher_lev_sm.jpg", "thumbnail": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/objects/thumbs/cover_my_name_is_asher_lev_th.jpg", "alt": "Book cover for My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok", "caption": "My Name is Asher Lev", "link": "https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan044.html" }, "start_date": { "year": "1972" }, "text": { "headline": "My Name is Asher Lev", "text": "My Name Is Asher Lev is a novel by Chaim Potok, an American author and rabbi. The book's protagonist is Asher Lev, a Hasidic Jewish boy in New York City. Asher is a loner with artistic inclinations. His art, however, causes conflicts with his family and other members of his community. The book follows Asher's maturity as both an artist and a Jew. (Source: Wikipedia)" } } ] }