Mariama Bâ and the Politics of the Family
The Senegalese woman writer, Mariama Bâ, chronicles a changing society in post colonial Senegal, caught between the attraction of modernization and the resistance of traditional beliefs. Her award-winning novel, Une si longue lettre , is examined as an example of the kind of subversive "journa...
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| Language: | English |
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New Prairie Press
1993-01-01
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| Series: | Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature |
| Online Access: | http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol17/iss1/3 |