Title
Gallery Bundu: A Story of an African Past
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Description
In Paul Stoller's work of fiction framed by African storytelling, David is the 52-year-old co-owner of Gallery Bundu, an African art shop in New York City. As a young man in the late 1960s, he joined the Peace Corps to avoid the draft. Assigned to teach English in Niger, he was eager to seek out adventure, and he found it—from drugged-out American expatriates and mamba-filled forests to seductive African women. In the course of his stay in Niger, David meets and falls in love with Zeinabou, a strikingly beautiful woman who professes her love to him, though David believes that he is not the only man she dates. Two weeks before his anticipated return to the United States, Zeinabou informs David that she is pregnant with what she believes is his child. Not knowing how to react, David flees Niger and returns to America ridden with guilt. The hastiness of David's decision will shadow his every move for the rest of his life and will lead him to eventually return to Niger and try to make amends.
Publication Date
6-2005
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
City
Chicago, IL
Disciplines
African Languages and Societies | Social and Cultural Anthropology
Recommended Citation
Stoller, Paul, "Gallery Bundu: A Story of an African Past" (2005). College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Books. 26.
https://digitalcommons.wcupa.edu/casfaculty_books/26