Title: “Messengers of a new design”: marriage, family, and sexuality
Abstract: In her first novel, So Long a Letter, Senegalese writer Mariama Bȃ describes the dilemmas that confronted educated women in the decades following her country's independence. Written as a series of letters from recently widowed Ramatoulaye to her longtime friend Aissatou, the book contrasts the choices each of them made in her effort to reconcile local cultural and religious practices with those of her French-influenced formal education.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-04-25
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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