Ken Bugul
Autore di The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Mbaye Biléoma, Mariètou
- Altri nomi
- Bugul, Ken
- Data di nascita
- 1947
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Senegal
- Luogo di nascita
- Malem Hodar, Senegal
- Luogo di residenza
- Porto-Novo, Benin
Dakar, Senegal
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 12
- Utenti
- 125
- Popolarità
- #160,151
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 27
- Lingue
- 5
But the book is framed within that childhood village and the family compound shaded by a baobab sprouted from a seed children left behind. A baobab, a compound, and a village eventually abandoned.
Indeed the overarching theme of the book is abandonment -- an abandoned child, an abandoned childhood, an abandoned culture and religion superseded by colonial values, even the abandoned idea of a new kind of life. Ken's sense of displacement is heightened by the drug use and sexual freedom of the era's counter-culture. While the book is revelatory and important, it is often agonizing to read. Not for the faint of heart.… (altro)