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So a Long Letter

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Heinemann, 1989 - 90 pages
This novel is a perceptive testimony to the plight of articulate women who live in social milieux dominated by attitudes and values that deny them their proper place. It is a sequence of reminiscences, some wistful, some bitter, recounted by a recently widowed Senegalese school teacher. The letter, addressed to an old friend, is a record of her emotional struggle for survival after her husband's abrupt decision to take a second wife. Although his action is sanctioned by Islam, it is a calculated betrayal of his wife's trust and a brutal rejection of their life together.
  

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Great insights on Senegalese culture. - Goodreads
This internal conflict is central to the plot. - Goodreads
The writing in this novel is BEAUTIFUL! - Goodreads
This is the HoTPCA April 2009 Book Club selection. - Goodreads

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Avis d'utilisateur  - KD Absolutely - Goodreads

Mariama Ba (1929-1982) was a Senegalese novelist, teacher, activist and feminist. During her lifetime she was only able to publish this book. Her two other works Scarlet Song and La Fonction politique ... Consulter l'avis complet

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Mariama Bâ's “So Long A Letter,” is a sophisticated musing on marriage, polygamy, raising children, death and societal expectations as told through the exchange of letters between two Sudanese women ... Consulter l'avis complet

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Table des matières

Section 1
1
Section 2
3
Section 3
5
Section 4
9
Section 5
11
Section 6
13
Section 7
15
Section 8
19
Section 10
46
Section 11
63
Section 12
66
Section 13
75
Section 14
84
Section 15
86
Section 16
88
Section 17
90

Section 9
29
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So long a letter
So long a letter
Mariama Bâ
Affichage d'extraits - 1981
So Long a Letter
So Long a Letter
Mariama Bâ
Aucun aperçu disponible - 2008
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À propos de l'auteur (1989)

The promising literary career of Mariama Ba ended with her death in 1981 at the age of 52, just before the publication of her second novel, Le Chant Ecarlate (The Scarlet Song), a poetic drama of a love affair between a Senegalese student and the daughter of a French diplomat. Like the works of many other feminist African women writers, Ba's writing challenges many prevalent stereotypes that reinforce the African woman's acceptance of her "place" in society. Her first novel, So Long a Letter (1979), which revealed her clarity of vision and persuasive rhetoric, is written in an epistolary style. The long letter from one female friend to another is a deeply moving account of a Muslim woman's innermost feelings and emotional survival following her husband's decision to take a second, and much younger, wife. The novel has been translated into more than 15 languages and has received international acclaim. In 1980 Mariama Ba received the Noma Award for the best novel published in Africa.

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TitreSo a Long Letter
Volume 248 de African writers series
AuteurMariama Ba
Éditionréimprimée
ÉditeurHeinemann, 1989
ISBN0435905554, 9780435905552
Longueur90 pages
  
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