It touches on the wide range of feminist, postcolonial, and literary issues raised in her novels, issues addressed with a broad set of theoretical approaches. The present volume comprises fourteen chapters, an interview, testimonies, and an extensive works cited section. This collection is thus a much needed, welcome addition to the field. A large body of scholarship hasīeen devoted to her work, although much of it has been in French. Her work has won her international renown, especially with the Grand Prix Littéraire de l∪frique Noire in 1999 for her third novel Riwan ou Le chemin de sable. She has persisted in conveying the traumatic moments that have marked her own experiences, and has been reaching out increasingly to express the voices of her generation of women in transgressive and bold terms intended, increasingly, to embrace issues facing the larger society.
Mothers and daughters, wives and mistresses, have known the spectrum of lives marked by struggle, silence, but also resistance, fulfillment, and above all, a determination to write. The first generation of testimonial novels penned by the francophone fathers of African literature has given way to the Senegalese mothers, Mariama Bâ, Nafissatou Diallo, Aminata Sow Fall, and Ken Bugul, among others. Gone are the comforting images of the African child embraced by the community, raised by the entire village, seeking successful reward for hard work with the scholarship to Europe. It is now a quarter century since Ken Buguls Le Baobab fou (1983) burst on the scene with its shocking account of a young Senegalese girl experiencing alienation and dislocation as an orphaned child, and marginalization and desperation in her years of exile in Europe.
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