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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Mariama Bâ"”.
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Mariama Bâ, eine Autorin zwischen den Welten
The Senegalese author Mariama Bâ has written two novels: Une si longue lettre and Un chant écarlate. In these novels, she addresses the social grievances of the Senegalese population. She was the first female author to bring femininity out of the shadow of male leadership. With the themes of …
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Writing as a cultural negotiation: a study of Mariama Bâ, Marie NDiaye and Ama Ata Aidoo
… of the selected works of Ama Ata Aidoo, Mariama Bâ and Marie NDiaye through the new prism of writing as part of cultural negotiation. In doing so, the dissertation goes beyond the paradigm of binary oppositions that undergirds the critical literature on writing by Sub-Saharan women in …
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Les (En)jeux de la femme: conflits et (ré)solutions dans la littérature vietnamienne et sénégalaise d'expression française
… - Une si longue lettre and Un Chant écarlate by Mariama Bâ. I begin with an exploration of the patriarchal constraints of Vietnamese and Senegalese societies in order to demonstrate that female oppression results in the competition between women for men and their resources. Additionally, since …
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Reconstructing the African and African diasporic woman: gender, race, class and the making of a constructive radical African feminist
… from a generational perspective. It discusses Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1979) as the foundation of the African woman’s migration story and the evolvement in the female identity construction. It then uses Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah as a new, yet different and more contemporary …
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Attitudes towards polygamy in select African fiction
… to recommend a polygamous life to women, while Mariama Bâ ’s So Long a Letter and Scarlet Song, Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood and Kehinde, Es’kia Mphahlele’s Chirundu, Lazarus Miti’s The Prodigal Husband, Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes, Sue Nyathi’s The Polygamist,SembeneOusmane’s Xala, Lola …
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Consuming cultures: the cultinary poetics of Francophone women's literature
… Meurs by Fawzia Zouari, Une Chanson Ecarlate, by Mariama Bâ, Cendres et Braises by Ken Bugul, Pluie et Vent sur Télumée Miracle by Simone Schwarz-Bart’s and Papillon dans la cité by Gisèle Pineau. My dissertation shows how food and cooking are used as cultural markers, and provide an activity that …
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Islamic culture and the question of women’s human rights in North Africa : a study of short stories by Assia Djebar and Alifa Rifaat
… feminisms, using the works of Nawal el-Saadawi, Mariama Bâ and Zaynab Alkali to chart the many challenges facing Muslim women today. Chapters Three and Four focus on the selected literature of the chosen writers, Alifa Rifaat and Assia Djebar, respectively, showing how each writer uses her art as …