The Abandoned Baobab

The Abandoned Baobab

Author: Ken Bugul

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780813927374

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Despite its unflinching look at our darkest impulses, and at the stark facts of being a colonized African, the book is ultimately inspirational, for it exposes us to a remarkable sensibility and a hard-won understanding of one's place in the world.CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French


Le baobab fou

Le baobab fou

Author: Ken Bugul

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13:

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The autobiography of a Senegalese woman that investigated post-colonial identity for a young African woman in Belgium. She was a free spirit who not only raised herself in remote, rural Senegal, but also became a "hippie" in Europe, dropping acid and living communally in the era of peace and free love.


Africa Writing Europe

Africa Writing Europe

Author: Maria Olaussen

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 904202593X

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"Africa Writing Europe" offers critical readings of the meaning and presence of Europe in a variety of African literary texts. Authors discussed include Leila Aboulela, Tatamkhulu Afrika, Alice Solomon Bowen, Ken Bugul, and Tayeb Salih.


Women's Studies Quarterly (97:3-4)

Women's Studies Quarterly (97:3-4)

Author: Tuzyline Jita Allan

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781558611696

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Authoritative, creative, and groundbreaking original literary essays about an important emerging area of study.


The Expedition to the Baobab Tree

The Expedition to the Baobab Tree

Author: Wilma Stockenstrom

Publisher: Archipelago

Published: 2014-04-15

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1935744925

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Learning to survive in the harsh interior of Southern Africa, a former slave seeks shelter in the hollow of a baobab tree. For the first time since she was a young girl her time is her own, her body is her own, her thoughts are her own. In solitude, she is finally able to reflect on her own existence and its meaning, bringing her a semblance of inner peace. Scenes from her former life shuttle through her mind: how owner after owner assaulted her, and how each of her babies were taken away as soon as they were weaned, their futures left to her imagination. We are the sole witnesses to her history: her capture as a child, her tortured days in a harbor city on the eastern coast as a servant, her journey with her last owner and protector, her flight, and the kaleidoscopic world of her baobab tree. Wilma Stockenström's profound work of narrative fiction, translated by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, is a rare, haunting exploration of enslavement and freedom.


Selfish Gifts

Selfish Gifts

Author: Lisa McNee

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2000-06-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780791445884

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Investigates the politics and poetics of women's gendered identity in West Africa.


Francophone Post-colonial Cultures

Francophone Post-colonial Cultures

Author: Kamal Salhi

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780739105689

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Organized by region, boasting an international roster of contributors, and including summaries of selected creative and critical works and a guide to selected terms and figures, Salhi's volume is an ideal introduction to French studies beyond the canon.