Title: FROM CHILDHOOD TO WOMANHOOD-LIFE EXPERIENCE: A STUDY OF ASHA BANDELE’S SOMETHING LIKE BEAUTIFUL |
Authors: N’ZAMBI-MIKOULOU Donald, Congo |
Abstract: The exploration of Something Like Beautiful enables me to discover Asha Bandele’s unfortunate-life experience as a black female character in the United States. This unfortunate-life experience results in her concern of violence against black women in this great nation. Described as a victim of loneliness, sexual abuses and verbal attacks from her childhood to her womanhood, Bandele experiences different forms of inhuman treatments due to her blackness and parent’s irresponsibility. These treatments finally push her to put the blame on white American authorities as a way to fight for justice in American society, for she even wonders how to raise her child in such a society where racism is viewed as a mode of life. Such a sorrowful experience of life which intertwines with that of the authoress is therefore what urges me to confess that Something Like Beautiful is a revisitation of the real-life Bandele’s sequences of life in the white man’s world. |
Keywords: The United States, Asha Bandele, Childhood, Womanhood, Life experience. |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59009/ijlllc.2025.0112 PDF Download |