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The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
A truly remarkable contribution, both for the lyrical quality of its prose and for its boldly imaginative theme. World Literature Today
The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
Learning to survive in the harsh interior of Southern Africa, a former slave seeks shelter in the hollow of a baobab tree. For the first time since she was a young girl her time is her own, her body is her own, her thoughts are her own. In solitude, she is finally able to reflect on her own existence and its meaning, bringing her a semblance of inner peace. Scenes from her former life shuttle through her mind: how owner after owner assaulted her, and how each of her babies were taken away as soon as they were weaned, their futures left to her imagination. We are the sole witnesses to her history: her capture as a child, her tortured days in a harbor city on the eastern coast as a servant, her journey with her last owner and protector, her flight, and the kaleidoscopic world of her baobab tree. Wilma Stockenström's profound work of narrative fiction, translated by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, is a rare, haunting exploration of enslavement and freedom.
The Wisdom of Water
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The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
A truly remarkable contribution, both for the lyrical quality of its prose and for its boldly imaginative theme. World Literature Today
L'expedició al baobab
Enmig del paisatge desèrtic de l'interior de Sud-àfrica, una antiga esclava busca recer dins d'un forat en el tronc d'un baobab gegantí. Per primera vegada a la vida, és mestressa del seu temps, del seu cos, dels seus pensaments, i en la solitud del refugi recorda el seu periple vital: com la van capturar quan era petita, la violència que va patir a les mans dels seus amos, les criatures que li van prendre dels braços tan bon punt les va haver deslletat, la dura vida de serventa en una ciutat portuària, el viatge amb el seu darrer propietari, la fugida. El baobab, interlocutor imaginari, serà l'únic testimoni del seu relat punyent, una mena d'"alter ego" en l'escorça del qual grava...
The London Magazine
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London Magazine
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J. M. Coetzee
The importance of J. M. Coetzee in the development of twentieth-century fiction is widely recognised. His work addresses some of the key issues of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: the relationship between postmodernism and postcolonialism, the role of history in the novel, and the question of how the author can combine an ethical and political consciousness with a commitment to the novel as a work of fiction. In this study, written in 1998, Dominic Head assesses Coetzee's position as a white South African writer engaged with the legacy of colonialism. Through close readings of all the novels, Head shows how Coetzee inhabits a transitional site between Europe and Africa, and it is from this position that his more general concerns emerge. Coetzee's engagement with the problems facing the postcolonial writer, Head argues, is always enriched by his awareness of a wider literary tradition.
Focus on Egypt
As well as a rare examination of Egyptian literature, this volume includes a non-themed section of Featured Articles and a Literary Supplement.
