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The Fury and Cries of Women: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French

Autor Angele Rawiri, Ntyugwetondo Rawiri Traducere de Sara Hanaburgh
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 iul 2014 – vârsta de la 22 ani

Gabon's first female novelist, Angele Rawiri probed deeper into the issues that writers a generation before her Mariama Ba and Aminata Sow Fall had begun to address. Translated by Sara Hanaburgh, this third novel of the three Rawiri published is considered the richest of her fictional prose. It offers a gripping account of a modern woman, Emilienne, who questions traditional values and seeks emancipation from them.

Emilienne's active search for feminism on her own terms is tangled up with cultural expectations and taboos of motherhood, marriage, polygamy, divorce, and passion. She completes her university studies in Paris; marries a man from another ethnic group; becomes a leader in women's liberation; enjoys professional success, even earning more than her husband; and eventually takes a female lover. Yet still she remains unsatisfied. Those closest to her, and even she herself, constantly question her role as woman, wife, mother, and lover. The tragic death of her only child her daughter Rekia accentuates Emilienne's anguish, all the more so because of her subsequent barrenness and the pressure that she concede to her husband's taking a second wife.

In her forceful portrayal of one woman's life in Central Africa in the late 1980s, Rawiri prompts us not only to reconsider our notions of African feminism and the canon of francophone African women's writing but also to expand our awareness of the issues women face across the world today in the workforce, in the bedroom, and among family and peers."

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ISBN-13: 9780813936024
ISBN-10: 0813936020
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 152 x 222 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Virginia Press
Seriile CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French, Caraf Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated fro