Les romancieres senegalaises Nafissatou Niang Diallo, Mariama Ba et Aminata Sow Fall ont suscite des epithetes qui vont de feministe a antifeministe pour caracteriser leur production litteraire. Notre propos est de demontrer qu'une telle lecture est reductrice car il s'agit la d…
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The mother-daughter dyad as it is explored in the narrative of three contemporary women writers, Mariama Ba's Une si longue lettre, Francesca Sanvitale's Madre e figlia, and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, is here reexamined in the light of the slow emergence of maternal speech fro…
This dissertation investigates four epistolary works by modern women writers of color where the issues of gender, genre, and culture or race interconnect, in the hope of providing a better understanding of how the mode of the unsent/unanswered letter breaks the borderline betwee…
In the secondary literature on the biblical text it is often generally stated that bamot (so-called "high place" shrines), massebot (standing stones), 'aseri m (so-called "sacred trees" or "poles"), and certain mizbehot (altars), were universally condemned by the biblical writer…
Postmodernism and postcolonialism are both offsprings of modernity. To be postmodern does not mean to totally obliterate modernity. In postmodernity, however, the illusions of progress, order, universalism, hegemony, are dissipated. Reason, the very foundation on which modernity…
This dissertation provides a literary response to the appropriation of Third-World women's texts by Western feminist discourses. I intend to question the constructed difference between literature and theory. I use the term African woman/women as a construct not of identity but o…
Sub-Saharan African women only began to publish novels in French in the mid-1970s. In my dissertation, I study the works of Senegalese authors Aminata Sow Fall and Mariama Ba, two of the most prominent writers of this first generation, as well as three works by the French writer…