Ken Bugul, nee M'baye: Stylistic and theoretical expressions of Bugulian feminism

This is an examination of the thematic and formal elements of Ken Bugul's first six books (1982-2005). Fyfe contextualizes this Senegalese female author's works as a literary response to alienation in the post-colonial time period. Drawing on the performance and Wolofophone elements of Bugul's writings, Fyfe characterizes this corpus as a reflection of a reality of African evoluees who, like Bugul's projected "self," are caught between tradition and modernity, the North and the South.;Fyfe underscores the uniqueness of the Bugulian voice that, while steeped in egotistical soul-searching, also reaches out to a larger feminist and postcolonial movement. She demonstrates how Bugul's protagonists are all searching to ease their personal malaises yet can only do so when they find peace within themselves.