I Get on the Bus (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Reginald McKnight
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: Senegal
- Principal Characters: Evan Norris, Wanda Wright, Aminata Gueye, Africa Mamadou Ford, Lamont Samb
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Teaching or teachers, Culture, Self-discovery, Communication, Individuality, 1980’s, Reality, Senegal or Senegalese people, Spiritualism
- Locales: Senegal
The Novel
Building on some of the territory identified by the author in his first work of fiction, the prize-winning collection of stories Moustapha’s Eclipse (1988), and on his experiences as a teacher in West Africa, I Get on the Bus is a compelling meditation on the state of blackness in the closing years of the twentieth century. Given the novel’s background and the innumerable manifestations of Senegalese life, culture, language, and environment that it contains, it is tempting to regard the work in an autobiographical light. Although the work itself...
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