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The Fury and Cries of Women (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French)
Angèle Rawiri
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Description for The Fury and Cries of Women (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French)
Hardcover. Translator(s): Hanaburgh, Sara. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 376.
Gabon’s first female novelist, Angèle Rawiri probed deeper into the issues that writers a generation before her—Mariama Bâ 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 ... Read more
Gabon’s first female novelist, Angèle Rawiri probed deeper into the issues that writers a generation before her—Mariama Bâ 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813936024
SKU
V9780813936024
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About Angèle Rawiri
Angèle Rawiri (1954–2010) was a translator, interpreter, model, and actress in addition to being a novelist. Her death in Paris reinvigorated interest in her work and dismay that she had not known greater success during her lifetime. Sara Hanaburgh is Assistant Professor of French at St. John’s University, USA. Cheryl Toman is Associate Professor of French ... Read more
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