SOURCE: "Time, Motion, Sound and Fury in The Sea Birds Are Still Alive," in CLA Journal, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2, December, 1992, pp. 134-44.
In the following essay, Lyles explores the role of revolution in Bambara's collection, maintaining that revolutionary thought "is manifested through the depiction of the characters' sense of time and through the prominence of descriptions of sound and motion."
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