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Mariama Ba
Mariama Ba's pioneering debut, So Long a Letter, captures the private lives of women in 1970s Senegal.
Recently widowed, Ramatoulaye is required to take sole responsibility for the long mourning…
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The original publication was in French, Une si longue lettre; and this is the Swahili translation from the English, translated by the late Professor Maganga.
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An intense novel written in the form of a letter sent to Ramatoulaye, who has recently been widowed.
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Laura Charlotte Kempen
This book investigates the convergence of feminist literary projects in the Latin American and West African contexts and demonstrates how the authors examined here employ similar writing strategies to (re)constitute…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author…
Mariama Ba's debut, So Long a Letter is an epistolary novel that captures the private lives of women in 1970s Senegal. It won the 1980 Noma Award for Publishing in…
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Jayant Cherekar
Woman Blooming out of Gloom is a doctoral thesis that provides an in-depth analysis of the works of Senegalese author Mariama Ba. By addressing such issues as marriage, polygamy, motherhood…
Kangnikoe Adama
These de Master de l'annee 2015 dans le domaine Lettres - Afrique, note: Mention Bien , cours: Lettres Langues et Sciences Humaines, langue: Francais, resume Au 19e siecle, lorsque la…
