The Dark Child
A Literature, Memoir, Autobiography book. French speakers interested in African culture.
The Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. Long regarded Africa's preeminent Francophone novelist, Laye (1928-80) herein marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village goldsmith, and his own passage into manhood, which is marked by animistic beliefs and bloody rituals of primeval origin. Eventually, he must choose between this unique place and the academic success that lures him to distant cities. More than autobiography of one boy, this is the universal story of sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world. A passionate and deeply affecting record, The Dark Child is a classic of African literature.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 192 pages
- ISBN: 9780809015481 / 0
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French speakers interested in African culture. In the first 90 pages of this book, the great drama involves influential parents intervening to stop schoolyard bullying and in the second 90 pages of this book, the great drama involves the foreskin being chopped from the author's penis. ("Later on, I went through an ordeal much more frightening than Konden Diara, a really dangerous... Short, dense memoir of a boy growing up in Guinea and leaving his tribal world for school in France. I liked the details -- the way he described the harvest in his grandmother's village of Tindican, the details of the public ceremony preceding the circumcision (where the older boys act as guiding "lions"), and the writer's exploration...
