God's Bits of WoodHeinemann, 1995 - 248 pages "God's Bits of Wood is a fictionalized account of the Dakar-Niger train strikes which took in the 1940s. The novel looks at both the political and personal sacrifices the strikers and their families made. The political power is portrayed here as the strikers try to win back pensions, annual paid vacations, and family allowances from the Europeans. The novel can be seen as a shift of power between the African strikers and their European bosses. The Europeans have the political process and violence as a leverage of power, which they use both insistently and mindlessly. One of the European delegates for the railway company accidentally shoots young boys who are playing along the tracks. The delegate isn't charged with their murders. The Europeans also prevent the strikers and their families from having access to water. Yet the strikers also have the masses as their power. The strikers gain powerful allies in their own women. In the beginning of the novel, the women are not told the details of the strike, though they are asked to support their men. Only the small child, Ad'jibid'ji, shows any interest and insists that her grandfather take her to a meeting of the strikers. Yet as the novel continues, the women become more and more involved in the strike. This is because the strike has hit home to them in a literal way. There is no water nor food to eat. The women and children begin to starve. The women suffer in silence until they begin to fight back. Two of the more striking sequences in the novel are the siege between the women of N'Diayene and the policemen who have come to arrest Ramatoulaye, and leads to the burning down of the village, and the march the women go on to Dakar to protest their treatment and to support the strikers. The strike breaks down the barriers which cause inequality between men and women, black and white." -- from www.associatedcontent.com (Oct. 22, 2010). |
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Table des matières
BAMAKO Adjibiďji | 1 |
DAKAR DaoudaBeaugosse | 35 |
Houdia MBaye | 50 |
BAMAKO Tiémoko | 78 |
DAKAR Mame Sofi | 109 |
THIÈS Sounkaré the Watchman | 128 |
The March of the Women | 186 |
BAMAKO The Camp | 230 |
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Ad'jibid'ji Alioune already arms Arona asked Assitan Bachirou Bakary Bakayoko Bamako Bambara Beaugosse began Bineta blind woman body Boubacar chief of police child cloth courtyard cried crowd Dahomey Dakar Dejean Deune Diara Dieynaba door Doudou Edouard everything eyes Fa Keïta face father feet French girl gone Gorgui Grandmother Hadramé hand happened head heard Houdia M'Baye Isnard Kaolack Keïta knew Konaté Koulikoro Lahbib laughing Leblanc legs listen looked Mabigué Magatte Maïmouna Mame Sofi Mariame Monsieur morning N'Deye Touti N'Diayène never night old Niakoro Ouolof Penda Ramatoulaye rice Rufisque Sadio Samba N'Doulougou savanna seated seemed Séne shoulders shouted silence sleep soldiers Sounkaré speak spoke stood stopped street strike strikers suddenly talking tell Thiès thing thought Tiémoko told tomorrow took toubabs turned union office Vendredi voice waiting walked wall women words workers