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Title:Contemporary society and the female imagination: a study of the novels of Mariama Bâ
Author:Cham, Mbye B.ISNI
Year:1987
Periodical:African Literature Today
Issue:15
Pages:89-101
Language:English
Geographic term:Senegal
Subjects:literature
novels
About person:Mariama Bâ (1929-1981)ISNI
Abstract:'Une si longue lettre' (1980) and 'Un chant écarlate' (1981) by Mariama BA both explore the issue of abandonment, which in these novels is predominantly a female condition and takes on the characteristics of a power struggle. The present paper examines this issue and all that it entails on the personal, social, psychological, cultural and economic levels. Notes, ref.
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