 As a young man of eighteen he had brought honour to his village by throwing Amalinze the Cat. Amalinze was the great wrestler who for seven years was unbeaten, from Umuofia to Mbaino. He was called the Cat because his back would never touch the earth....  Sports and Games of the Renaissancedoor Andrew Leibs - 2004 - 199 pagina’sGeen voorbeeld beschikbaar - Over dit boek
 | Albert S. Gérard - 1986 - 678 pagina’s
...throwing Amalinze the Cat. Amalinze was the great wrestler who for seven years was unbeaten, from Umuofia to Mbaino. He was called the Cat because his back...engaged a spirit of the wild for seven days and seven nights.130 129 Recent studies of Achebe's first novel include Yedieti E. Coulibaly, "Weeping Gods:... | |
 | Catherine Lynette Innes - 1992 - 224 pagina’s
...the great wrestler who for seven years was unbeaten, from Umuofia to Mbaino. He 31 was called the Gat because his back would never touch the earth. It was...spirit of the wild for seven days and seven nights. The drums beat and the flutes sang and the spectators held their breath. Amalinze was a wily craftsman,... | |
 | Chinua Achebe - 1996 - 212 pagina’s
...throwing Amalinze the Cat. Amalinze was the great wrestler who for seven years was unbeaten, from Umuofia to Mbaino. He was called the Cat because his back...spirit of the wild for seven days and seven nights. The drums beat and the flutes sang and the spectators held their breath. Amalinze was a wily craftsman,... | |
 | Patrick Colm Hogan - 2000 - 384 pagina’s
...oratory. The novel begins with the legendary story of Okonkwo's victory in the greatest wrestling match "since the founder of their town engaged a spirit of the wild for seven days and seven nights" (3). His victory links him to the greatest ancestor and that ancestor's triumph over the malign spirits... | |
 | Isidore Okpewho - 2003 - 284 pagina’s
...relating how he gained fame by wrestling Amalinze the Cat in one of the fiercest fights Umuofia had seen since "the founder of their town engaged a spirit of the wild for seven days and seven nights" (3). Okonkwo lives in the same world as the mythical or semimythical founder of Umuofia, in the same... | |
 | Ernest Emenyo̲nu - 2004 - 504 pagina’s
...his second wife and the mother of his precocious daughter Ezinma. Even "the old agreed it (the fight) was one of the fiercest since the founder of their...spirit of the wild for seven days and seven nights (i). Again we see the symbolism of the number seven as equivalent to the Jewish "forty days and forty... | |
 | Sener Saltürk - 2007 - 97 pagina’s
...Darkness, die Formulierung „an Africa without Africans" (Carroll, 1990, S. 2). was unbeaten, from Umuofia to Mbaino. He was called the Cat because his back...the fiercest since the founder of their town engaged in a spirit of the wild for seven days and seven nights" (Things Fall Apart , S. 3). Die Erzählung... | |
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