The Personal and the Political in the Work of Mariama Bâ
In her two novels, Une si longue lettre and Un Chant écarlate , Mariama Bâ describes how political as well as domestic problems develop from the tensions between tradition and the modern world. Desire for power and money leads to a post-independence society, in which greed motivates politicians a...
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New Prairie Press
1994-06-01
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| Series: | Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature |
| Online Access: | http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol18/iss2/4 |