Ambiguous AdventureMelville House, 27 mars 2012 - 176 pages The celebrated classic by a groundbreaking figure in African literature addresses a critical contemporary issue—the collision of Islamic African values and Western culture. Hailed by Chinua Achebe as one of the greatest African novels ever written, this long-unavailable classic tells the tale of young Samba Diallo, a devout pupil in a Koranic school in Senegal whose parents send him to Paris to study philosophy. But unknown to Samba, it is a desperate attempt by his parents to better understand the French colonial forces transforming their traditional way of life. Instead, for Samba, it seems an exciting adventure, and once in France he excels at his new studies and is delighted by his new "marvelous comprehension and total communion" with the Western world. Soon, though, he finds himself torn between the materialistic secularism and isolation of French civilization and the deeper spiritual influences of his homeland. As Samba puts it: "I have become the two." Written in an elegant, lyrical prose, Ambiguous Adventure is a masterful expression of the immigrant experience and the repercussions of colonialism, and a great work of literature about the uneasy relationship between Islamic Africa and the West—a relationship more important today than ever before. |
Table des matières
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Section 2 | 35 |
Section 3 | 43 |
Section 4 | 67 |
Section 5 | 85 |
Section 6 | 105 |
Section 7 | 114 |
Section 8 | 121 |
Section 9 | 130 |
Section 10 | 142 |
Section 11 | 146 |
Section 12 | 149 |
Section 13 | 158 |
Section 14 | 161 |
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