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FOR FUR BEAUTY
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Ouologuem 's African Novel, Its . Hebraic
Aspects, Its Expose of Arab Slave Trade
that followed the itinerary of novel. He is the author of school
There is great power in a first
manuals for African students.
Cornelius Barbus."
novel by an African intellectual
Throughout
his
work
there
is
the
who has drawn upon legend but
of the Hebraic influence
at the same resorted to history to evidence
that especially marks the unusual
emphasize the despair that op- novel "Bound to Violence."
pressed his people while indicating
Yambo Ouologuem, born in Mali,
the striving for liberation and the West ;Africa, in 1940, came to
commencement of a new era of France in 1964. He took university
degrees there and is the first Afri-
freedom of the mind.
can writer to have won the literary
In "Bound to Violence," Yambo Prix Renaudot award for his first
Ouologuem has produced an epic
account of events in Africa. His
Detroit's Largest
novel, translated from the French
by Ralph Manheim, published by
Selection of
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, gives
the reader a splendid account of
the 13th Century happenings in the
Saif dynasty, and then takes him
to the 20th Century and its cur-
rent experiences.
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He exposes the tragedy of the
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is a condemnation of the enslave-
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anyone with an ounce of ability
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"Amidst all this turmoil, this
dissolute life with its general bas-
tardization, its vice and corrup-
tion, the Arab conquest, which had
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known as cowries, or two bars of
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for
salt. And (let us be grateful!)
THIS
SUNDAY
these far-flung commercial opera-
or MOTHER'S DAY,
tions were masked by an apparent
gala occasion
in honor of all
pursuit of spiritual values: Arab
our Mothers.
universities (few of which had ex-
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isted hitherto) were established in
usually
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so, closely connected with the
in one of our
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world of international commerce
and the eastern slave trade."
many
Apparently there are Jewish in-
fluences that inspired Ouologuem.
His Saif Rabban Johanan ben Zak-
after-five
kai is definitely Jewish-oriented.
There is the Hebraic spirit when
he writes at the very beginning of
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his story:
"When the Immortal One
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makes the sun—diamond of the
house of His Power—set, then,
Shown is just on t
along with the tales of the oral
from our grea
tradition, the elders intone the
famous epic (the value of which
collection . .
some contest, because they deny
a vividly printed
Saif's Jewish descent, insisting
crepe coat, braid
that he was a plain ordinary
bound down th e
nigger) written by Mahmud Mek-
nud Trare, a descendant of griot
front, over a littl e
ancestors and himself a griot of
white romper suit
the present-day African Repub-
sash-tied
lic of Nakem-Ziuko, which is all
that remains of the ancient Na-
in the print
kern Empire:
"The Lord—holy is His Name!
—showed us the mercy of bring-
ing forth, at the beginning of the
black Nakem Empire, one illus-
trious man, our ancestor the
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