Tounka: Nouvelle
by SADJI, Abdoulaye
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Paris: Présence Africaine, [1965]. First Thus. 12mo (17.5cm.); original white pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; 90pp. Pages uniformly toned, else Fine. Novella by Senegalese author Sadji, a leading member of the literary movement Négritude. His fictional works were very much inspired by local African folklore, his earliest book being the educational reader La Belle Histoire de Leuk-le-Lièvre (1953), which he co-wrote with the founder of the Négritude movement Léopold Sédar Senghor. Tounka, the author's first story, is an interpretation of the Senegalese griot folktale describing the arrival of the "unknown people," (historically the Lebou people, originally from the hinterlands who migrated to the Senegalese coastline). The story, in a considerably altered form, was first published in the journal Paris-Dakar in 1946 and again, in book form, in Dakar, in 1952. (Albert S. Gérard, European-Language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa I, p. 217.).
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25579
- Title
- Tounka: Nouvelle
- Author
- SADJI, Abdoulaye
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Présence Africaine
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- [1965]
- Keywords
- Senegalese literature Negritude
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Africa; Postcolonial Literature;
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