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Title: | Contemporary society and the female imagination: a study of the novels of Mariama Bâ |
Author: | Cham, Mbye B. |
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) |
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. |