About this title: Winner of the Noma Award for publishing in Africa, this novel paints a portrait of a woman who, with courage and dignity, refuses to accept a polygamous life. Though her husband's action is sanctioned by Islam, to her it is a brutal denial of their years together.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Heinemann
Date Published: 1989-06-28
ISBN-13:9780435905552ISBN:0435905554
Description: Good. Paperback in good condition. Price marked off back wraps, light tanning to pages, shelfwear, wear to spine. Spine is uncreased, binding and text also in very good condition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Heinemann International Literature & Textbooks
Date Published: 18/04/1989
ISBN-13:9780435905552ISBN:0435905554
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Heinemann International Literature & Textbooks
Date Published: 18/04/1989
ISBN-13:9780435905552ISBN:0435905554
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
"I read this book for the first time three years ago without enjoying it all that much. Re-reading the trials of Ramatoulaye and Aissatou in Dakar placed them in their proper context.
The entire text is a letter from Ramatoulaye after the death of her husband, resuming the unraveling of their marriage and recounting the story of Aissatou's own marital trials. I've yet to read a better account of the ways women navigate life in this liberal Muslim country.
Throughout, Ba's portrait of the sense of devotion that inhabits the Dakarois and her address of the practical problems facing women in Senegal hit the mark. She writes the most elegant French of any West African novelist."
"Afro-feminism! Gotta love it. I hear the novel has a much more lyrical flow in French, but the English is good. It is another piece of Afro-pessimsism, feminist style about two modern, wester-educated African women whose husbands choose to take second wives after Islamic custom. It is really complex and fascinating, straddling the divide of western-style modernity and traditional customs from the vantage point of a disenfranchised woman."
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