Mariama Bâ Ordre des livres
17 avril 1929 – 17 août 1981
Mariama Bâ a exploré le sort des femmes africaines et critiqué les inégalités entre les sexes issues des traditions dans ses œuvres littéraires. Écrivant en français, ses écrits abordent de manière approfondie les thèmes de la solidarité féminine, de la frustration et de la résignation au sein des sociétés patriarcales. Bâ s'est appuyée sur ses expériences personnelles et une profonde compréhension de la condition féminine pour créer des récits puissants et poignants qui continuent de résonner auprès des lecteurs.
- 1987
- 1982
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
- 1970
AWS Classics So Long A Letter
- 96pages
- 4 heures de lecture
An intense novel written in the form of a letter sent to Ramatoulaye, who has recently been widowed.
