The Legacy of Medea: Mariama Ba, "Un Chant ecarlate" and Marie Ndiaye, "La Femme changee en buche"

2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 362 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Little
Keyword(s):  
Mariama Ba

scholarly journals Ambiguïtés génériques dans une si longue lettre de Marima Bâ

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 187-195
Author(s):  
Florence Gacoin-Marks
Keyword(s):  
Mariama Ba

La presente contribution a pour objectif de replacer Une si longue lettre de la romanciere senegalaise Mariama Bâ dans le contexte du genre epistolaire, d'une part, en montrant son caractere hybride sur le plan forme! (ce roman peut etre envisage a la fois comme une lettre, un joumal intime et un roman a la premiere personne) et, d'autre part, en determinant comment le choix de ce genre specifique, qui implique l'existence d'un narrataire (destinataire de la lettre), contribue a la transmission du lllesage ideolgique (feministe) au coeur du project romanesque de Mariama Bâ.

scholarly journals Technique of Exploring Women’s Choice in Select Novels of El Sadaawi, Ba, Alkali and Adichie

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Angela Ngozi Dick
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
African Women ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
African Society ◽  
Mariama Ba ◽  
Literary Art ◽  
African Women Writers ◽  
Higher Institutions ◽  
So Long A Letter

Women writers in Africa have enjoyed wider audience especially in higher institutions where the curriculum includes African Women Writers, Gender Studies and other related courses. African women writers may focus on a variety of subject matters but what is common to their literary art is that they concentrate on the experience of women. This article focuses on how the authors use their literary art to portray women’s experiences in their social melieu.  Nawal El Sadaawi, Mariama Ba, Zaynab Alkali and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are women writers from Africa. The first three women are older and from Moslem background. Adichie is younger and from a Christian background. The choice made of the novels of these women is due to the recurrent problem of being a woman everywhere. In contemporary times women are still treated differently just because they are women. However, it has been observed that there is nothing intrinsic in women that depict them as the bad or inferior species of human beings. This article focuses on the commonality of style used by the select African novelists in couching the predicament of women in the African society. The novels chosen in this research are El Sadaawi’s  Woman at Point Zero and God Dies by the Nile; Ba’s So Long a Letter and Scarlet Song; Alkali’s The Stillborn and The Virtuous Woman and  Adichie’s Americanah.

Women’s Virtue: Engendering Shame

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-155
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Mariama Ba ◽  
Buchi Emecheta ◽  
Tsitsi Dangarembga ◽  
Ama Ata Aidoo ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
The Feminine

A focus on shame and the feminine, considering how female characters and shame are linked in order to address both explicitly female concerns as well as how those concerns can stand in for larger societal issues. The chapter revisits elements from Le vieux nègre et la médaille and Les Bouts de bois de Dieu but concentrates much more on Une si longue lettre by Mariama Bâ, A River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta, Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, short stories by Ama Ata Aidoo, and Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie.

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