She became a literary star in Senegal with novels that addressed women’s issues as the country, newly free from French colonial rule, was discovering its identity. By Steven Moity This article is part ...
Senegalese author and feminist Mariama Bâ (pictured) is famous for her French-language novels “So Long a Letter” and “Scarlet Song.” But thanks to recent research by Associate Professor Tobias Warner, ...
Mariama Bâ was born in 1929 in Dakar, Senegal, then part of French West Africa. She came from a prominent Lebu family: her father, Amadou Bâ, was a civil servant who became one of ...
Quem pega o livro "Uma Carta Tão Longa" sem conhecer a fama que precede a autora não desconfia do valor do conjunto de páginas que tem nas mãos. Embora bonito, o projeto gráfico não chega a revelar o ...
These two novels can be linked through their use of the infanticide theme to the Medea story, of which Euripedes's play is the best-known literary version. Mariama Bâ's realist portrayal of the ...
What is the Book about? So Long a Letter is an epistolary novel in the form of a letter from Ramatoulaye to her friend, Aissatou. She begins this letter by telling her friend that her husband, Modou, ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information CLIO, Women, Gender, History, a bi-annual French gender history journal (formerly CLIO, Histoire, Femmes et Sociétés), encourages ...
Poverty and political instability on the African continent have resulted in a limited culture of reading in most African countries.
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