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| Title: | Emerging perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall: the real and the imaginary in her novels |
| Author: | Azodo, Ada Uzoamaka |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Pages: | 319 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Trenton, NJ |
| Publisher: | Africa World Press |
| ISBN: | 1592215564; 1592215572; 9781592215577 |
| Geographic term: | Senegal |
| Subjects: | novels literary criticism interviews (form) |
| About person: | Aminata Sow Fall (1941-) |
| Abstract: | This volume of essays on the emerging perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall (Senegal) anthologizes present knowledge about the writer and her creative works and the critical reception of these works. The introduction by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo gives an overview of the writer's background, ideas, and literary and critical works, and the essays included in this volume. The first part of the book contains contributions on the real in the novels of Aminata Sow Fall: Re-valuing traditional patrimony (Lucy M. Schwartz); Aminata Sow Fall et la cause féminine (Kahiudi Claver Mabana); Les clés du projet humaniste: une question de dignité (Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier); When the subaltern speaks: a new historiography (Mame Selbée Diouf Ndiaye); Building community through the exchange ritual (Marco D. Roman); Engagement et nature du réalisme chez Aminata Sow Fall (Léa Kalaora). In the second part of the book, The imaginary in the novels of Aminata Sow Fall, Ada Uzoamaka Azodo explores the author's long search for the African soul, discussing each of the writer's novels individually. The third part contains an interview with Aminata Sow Fall which was conducted for publication in this volume. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
