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Mariama Bâ And The Politics Of The Family, Laurie Edson
Mariama Bâ And The Politics Of The Family, Laurie Edson
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The Senegalese woman writer, Mariama Bâ, chronicles a changing society in post colonial Senegal, caught between the attraction of modernization and the resistance of traditional beliefs. Her award-winning novel, Une si longue lettre, is examined as an example of the kind of subversive "journalism-vérité" proposed by Paulin Hountondji: an anecdotal reconstruction of facts combined with organization and interpretation that leads readers to an awareness of the real conditions of daily life and exposes the structures that make them possible. Bâ's novel exemplifies this "return to the real" not only because Bâ speaks about and exposes the all-too-common reality of …
Inventing Antillean Narrative: Maryse Condé And Literary Tradition, Leah D. Hewitt
Inventing Antillean Narrative: Maryse Condé And Literary Tradition, Leah D. Hewitt
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
As a Guadeloupean black woman novelist, Maryse Condé highlights the tensions in Caribbean culture between traditional and modern values, among ethnic groups, and between the sexes. She combines a representative view of an Antillean writer's specific concerns with a postmodern view of literature as multicultural, polymorphous intersection. The opening portion of this essay argues that Condé's personal literary trajectory embodies a general process of identity formation in post colonial literature, one that passes from the alienation of the individual, to the affirmation of collective movements and positive models, and finally, to a critical, playful outlook in which identities are continually …
Private Life And Collective Experience In Quebec: The Autobiographical Project Of France Théoret, Mary Jean Green
Private Life And Collective Experience In Quebec: The Autobiographical Project Of France Théoret, Mary Jean Green
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In her study of women's autobiographical writing, Carolyn Heilbrun contends that women's authorship has been most hindered by the lack of narrative structures adequate to the telling of women's experience. She further suggests that female narrative will be found as women talk together, exchange stories, and move toward a collective understanding of self. In recent years, the interplay of women's voices has assumed new importance in women's writing, and specifically in women's life/writing in French. Perhaps beginning with Simone de Beauvoir's feminist classic, The Second Sex, where the words of hundreds of other women are woven into the text …
The Mother Tongue Of Leila Sebbar, Danielle Marx-Scouras
The Mother Tongue Of Leila Sebbar, Danielle Marx-Scouras
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Leila Sebbar grew up in French colonial Algeria where her parents taught French to the indigenous children. The daughter of a metropolitan French woman and an Algerian, Sebbar is a croisée. At the height of the Algerian War, Sebbar left her homeland to pursue her university studies in France. She became a French teacher and made France her home. Sebbar writes in her mother tongue, but she treats it like a foreign language. Although she never learned Arabic and left Algeria, her paternal identity haunts all of her writings. Anchored by the notion of exile, Sebbar drifts between two …