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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"So long a letter"”.
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The place of a woman as reflected in two novels: So long a letter of Mariama Ba and Concubine of Elechi Amadi.
… the place of a woman as reflected in two novels: So long a letter of Mariama Ba and Concubine of Elechi Amadi.The study analyses the place of a woman as reflected in So long a letter and Concubine on a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective. The study uses textual analysis to show how the two …
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The place of a woman as reflected in two novels: So long a letter of Mariama Ba and Concubine of Elechi Amadi.
… the place of a woman as reflected in two novels: So long a letter of Mariama Ba and Concubine of Elechi Amadi.The study analyses the place of a woman as reflected in So long a letter and Concubine on a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective. The study uses textual analysis to show how the two …
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Reconstructing the African and African diasporic woman: gender, race, class and the making of a constructive radical African feminist
… 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 approach to the …
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Masculinity In Comparative Black Literatures
… with Richard Wright's publication of Native Son in 1940 to Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter published 1980. Black men created a transnational dialectic concerning their masculinity which involved the creation and criticism of several types of masculinity. In Chapters 1 and 2, I discuss the …
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Attitudes towards polygamy in select African fiction
… practised in African communities. The African social-realist novel, especially when it is woman-authored, shows female characters as having to play docile, subservient roles and accept demeaning positions in polygamous marriages. Although it has been claimed that traditional African marriage …
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Beyong the veil : Muslim women write back
… to claim public space in a dominant patriarchal society. It examines the socio-political conditions affecting women in the Arab peninsula before the rise of Islam, also called Jahiliyyah, from Islam's inception (622 AD). It notes that the principle of equality of all the believers was established …
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Mariama Bâ, eine Autorin zwischen den Welten
… 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 polygamy and the …