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Dialogical Subjectivity, Epistolary Gaze, and Temporalities of Becoming in Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1979).

This article argues that So Long a Letter (1979) constructs African female subjectivity as a dialogical self forged through the confessional epistle’s denouncement of colonial and patriarchal forces that have long sought to bend African women’s heads to external and internal orderings of their socie...

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Published in:African Studies Quarterly Vol. 23; no. 3/4; pp. 86 - 102
Main Author: BENTAHAR, SOUMIA
Format: Article
Published: African Studies Quarterly Dec2025
Subjects:
Subjectivity
So Long a Letter (Book)
Bâ, Mariama
Patriarchy
Epistolary fiction
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