So Long a Letter - Couverture souple

Bâ, Mariama

 
9781035906062: So Long a Letter
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1035906066 ISBN 13 : 9781035906062
Editeur : Apollo, 2024

Synopsis

Mariama Bâ'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 process of her late husband. A husband she has not seen in over four years - not after he married his second wife. In a letter to her friend, Ramatoulaye recalls both of their experiences as students impatient to change the world, as wives suffering in the private sphere of marriage, and as mothers witnessing the dangers of Westernisation.

Undaunted by topics of polygamy, social castes, and religion, So Long a Letter is a novel rich with poetic prose and profound wisdom.

'Mariama Bâ is in a class of her own, conveying with real power and poetry a subtle, changing world of female experience.' Guardian
'The most deeply felt presentation of the female condition in African fiction.' Abiola Irele

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À propos de l'auteur

Mariama Bâ was born in Dakar, Senegal in 1929. Brought up by her grandparents after the early death of her mother, Bâ's father fought to continue her education past primary school.

After winning the first prize in the entrance examination to train as a teacher at École Normale, Bâ taught in Dakar from 1947 until 1959 and later became an educational inspector.

A vocal activist for women's rights and class equality in Africa, her literary work often criticised the lack of educational opportunities offered to women as well as challenging the systems of polygamy and castes in Senegalese society.

Mariama Bâ died in 1981.

Translated from French by Modupé Bodé-Thomas.

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Éditeur
Apollo
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1035906066
ISBN 13 
9781035906062
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
144
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1803289120 ISBN 13 :  9781803289120
Editeur : Apollo, 2023
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