![]() ![]() ![]() In the village, the people are aware of the new white skinned arrivals to the area referred to as toubob. He lived a difficult but not unusual childhood in the farming village of Juffure. Roots is the tale of Kunta Kinte and seven generations that follow him in the United States. At the age of seventeen, Kunta Kinte is taken from the Gambia, a region in West Africa, and sold as a slave. Regardless of the terminology used, it is generally credited with widely expanding the public fascination with genealogy and with advancing the interest in, and appreciation for, the history of African Americans. In subsequent years, Roots has been classified as a novel more often than as a work of nonfiction. How closely Haley remained true to the facts as he found them, as he admittedly created dialogue and events to provide a cohesive storyline, is open to debate. It was originally dubbed “faction,” a term that suggests perhaps a bit more adherence to facts than the more widely known “creative nonfiction” and was marketed alongside pure works of nonfiction. Alex Haley’s 1976 work, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, may have served to blur the line between fiction and nonfiction, becoming a highly significant text on numerous levels. ![]()
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