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Bezig met laden... Mission to Kala (1957)door Mongo Beti
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The narrator of this story is a young man who returns to his home in town for school vacation, only to be sent on a "mission" to an upcountry village to retrieve a cousin's wife. While in the village, he finds himself a celebrity due to his "high education." With the help of his cousin, the village sports hero, he quickly immerses himself in the social life of the village, enjoying the freedom of his cousin and friends along with his status as an honored guest. When he returns home, he finds life under his oppressive father unbearable. While the book is written in a comic tone with plenty of funny moments and mock heroic allusions, it also is a serious commentary on colonialism and Westernization and the confusion of values and identities that go with them. Mission to Kala is a chronicle of a young man's journey to retrieve a relative's run-away wife from another African village far away behind five river-crossings and twenty mails. This premise is a vehicle to display (once more) the effects of the 'modern' (=European) on the African way of village life, and the conflicts between the old and the new. The tone of the narrative was a little annoying and the style is somewhat aged (the book is from the 1950s). Other than that the book is positively critical on both and very good in many ways. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Medza is sent off to retrieve a villager's wife who has run off with a man from another tribe. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I especially enjoyed the chapter headings: "Chapter Three : In the course of which the reader will become convinced that the final climax of this story is at last in sight - a conviction which is, most unfortunately, mistaken." ( )