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The General Is Up : ウィキペディア英語版 | The General Is Up
''The General Is Up'' is a "novel set in modern Africa" by Peter Nazareth. Its story seems, at first glance, to be a fictionalised version of the expulsion of Asians from Idi Amin's Uganda in the 1970s. But its writer sees it as being something more than this. The author was associate professor in Iowa University's Department of English and the Afro-American Studies Programme, at the time of writing the novel, published by the Calcutta (Kolkata)-based Writer's Workshop in 1984. Nazareth is a writer of Goan origin, and the novel is set, in large part, among the expat community of Goans, which has had a large number of out-migrants scattered across the globe, including, in the recent past, in Uganda, East Africa. ==About the book==
The setting is "Damibia" set in "Africa. To be precise, Central Africa" (p. 21). There, the President-General of the country has just announced that "all the East Indians in the country have to leave by the next moon". Says an author's note to the book: "Any resemblance to real events, persons or countries is an unfortunate coincidence." But not coincidentally, characters from the book have names such as Ronald D'Mello, Joe Pereira, David D'Costa, Horace D'Souza, among others, all names traditionally linked to the Catholic community from the region of Goa, which Nazareth traces his roots to, and which has been heavy into out-migration for generations. In its 30 chapters (besides an epilogue), the book focuses on "The General", the Damibia Institute, guerilla attacks, portrayals of inter-racial equations in post-colonial East Africa, playing the game of tombola a students' demo, a party, David's departure from Africa, the sad farewell at the airport, and more. Nazareth has an interesting style of narration. When set amidst a real (though fictionalised) community, this adds to the readability.
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