Kołysanka jak terapia w relacji matki z córką. O powieści „Widziane z drugiej strony” Ken Bugul

The aim of this article is to present the lullaby as a special song based on the intimate relationship between a mother and a daughter in the artistic works of a Senegalese writer, Ken Bugul. An analysis of the novel De l’autre côté du regard is preceded by a short introduction that explains the concept of a lullaby and presents its functions. The author of this article attempts to show how the lullaby can influence the relationship between the main character and her mother, showing the therapeutic role of the song.

Ken Bugul y su llegada a Europa: género y humor en Le baobab fou*

Resumen Por medio del análisis de la novela Le baobab fou, vamos a conocer, de la mano de la escritora senegalesa, Ken Bugul, y a través del humor, la emancipación de la mujer africana y su visión respecto a la tradición así como el cambio de costumbres que comenzó a producirse a partir de las independencias africanas en 1960 en Senegal, planteando así, de este modo, la teoría del humor desde una perspectiva sociocultural.

The role of music in Ken Bugul’s novels

The analysis of the place that music occupies in the works of Ken Bugul is the main purpose of this article. The author will try to present how this art manifests in her novels paying attention to the unique character of literary language. The rhythm, the intensity, the repetitions that appear in the Bugul’s texts become inseparables elements of her creation and show the musicality of her work.

La chair linguistique des femmes

At length stripped of any free and independent voice by male writers, Haitian and African novelists shattered the taboos surrounding sex and a liberated sexual expression during the second half of the 20th century. By exploring sexuality and sensuality in their work, these writers courageously managed to break free from the outskirts of society and reshape the inferior identity unjustly attributed to them by the literary canons. As there is a gap in in-depth research on this subject, our study aims to explore the different ways in which female sexuality is constructed on paper. The novels by Calixthe Beyala, Frieda Ekotto, Ken Bugul, Margaret Papillon, Yanick Lahens and Kettly Mars will allow us to focus on three themes often recurring in the female universe: violence, madness and prostitution. Particularly, the research will take into consideration the enunciative and discursive modalities, as well as the stylistic techniques that enabled these authors to enhance a strong female subjectivity through their bodies.

Identité, langues et savoirs dans Riwan ou le chemin de sable de Ken Bugul

This paper, which draws its analytic and hermeneutic postulate from epistemocriticism, studies the mechanism of renegotiation of identity in Ken Bugul’s Riwan ou le chemin de sable (Riwan, or the Sandy Path). It demonstrates that the narrator decides to return to her native land because she is afraid of losing connection with herself. The study analyses the return to native land not as a withdrawal to one’s identity but as a kind of poetizing of one of many various ways of life found within contemporary Senegalese society. The paper explores different forms of representation in cultural Senegalese knowledge through the perspectives of savoir-être (knowledge of how to behave) and savoir-dire (knowledge of how to express) which take into account taboo and customary rituals. These articulations of traditional knowledge are the keys from which the narrator reconnects with her origins and thus manages to reconstruct her ethnic identity.