The Abandoned Baobab
Title | The Abandoned Baobab PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Bugul |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780813927374 |
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
Title | Le baobab fou PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Bugul |
Publisher | |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Acculturation |
ISBN |
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.
Writing New Identities
Title | Writing New Identities PDF eBook |
Author | Gisela Brinker-Gabler |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780816624607 |
Africa Writing Europe
Title | Africa Writing Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Olaussen |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN | 904202593X |
"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)
Title | Women's Studies Quarterly (97:3-4) PDF eBook |
Author | Tuzyline Jita Allan |
Publisher | Feminist Press at CUNY |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781558611696 |
Authoritative, creative, and groundbreaking original literary essays about an important emerging area of study.
Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture
Title | Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Louis Walker |
Publisher | New Americanists |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
An examination of the regional and national commonalites and differences of francophone literary culture.
Selfish Gifts
Title | Selfish Gifts PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa McNee |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2000-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780791445884 |
Investigates the politics and poetics of women's gendered identity in West Africa.