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Champagne, John. ""A Feminist Just like Us?" Teaching Mariama BA's so Long a Letter." College English 58, no. 1 (1996): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/378532.

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Abuk, Christina. "Urbanisation's long shadows: Mariama Baâ's So Long A Letter." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 29, no. 4 (2003): 723–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183032000123477.

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Chijioke, Agbasiere. "Cultural Inhibitions as Threat to Advancement of African Women: The Case of Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter." International Journal of Languages and Culture 1, no. 3 (2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.51483/ijlc.1.3.2021.1-7.

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Latha, R. H. "The development of critical and cultural literacies in a study of Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter in the South African literature classroom." Literator 23, no. 3 (2002): 179–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v23i3.349.

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The Languages, Literacy and Communication learning area of Curriculum 2005 endorses “intercultural understanding, access to different world views and a critical understanding of the concept of culture” (National Department of Education, 2001:44). Although this curriculum is learner-centred and tries to create a better balance in the previously asymmetrical relationship between teacher and student, it does place great demands on the educator to avoid reinforcing cultural and multipolitical ideals which are not concomitant with the principles of a multicultural democracy. Since learners are expected to respond to the aesthetic, affective, cultural and social values in texts, the educator has to act responsibly in choosing texts which promote the values inherent in Curriculum 2005. Implicit in the curriculum statement is a commitment to critical pedagogy in the literature classroom with the general aim of promoting societal transformation. As the cultural assumptions underlying particular texts are often not known or shared by all learners, it is important for the educator to facilitate an examination of these assumptions in order to promote cultural understanding and values such as religious tolerance. This article will therefore investigate the development of cultural and critical literacies in the South African literature classroom with particular focus on So Long a Letter by the postcolonial African Muslim woman writer, Mariama Ba.
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Freitas, Anne E. "Review: So Long A Letter by Mariama Ba." Explorations in Ethnic Studies ESS-5, no. 1 (1985): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ess.1985.5.1.9.

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Abdulkadir, Hamzat. "A Marxist Reading of Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter." International Journal of Linguistics and Translation Studies 2, no. 2 (2021): 67–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlts.v2i2.155.

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This work examines Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter from a Marxist perspective. It explores the radical and feminist tendencies on the stereotype of African women with the awareness that women are equal with men without prejudice to the interpretation of the theory of creation. Based on Marxist theoretical framework, our analysis shows that the oppression and exploitation of women is a process involving women themselves. The woman, in effect, continually reproduces the conditions of her subservience as Marx will add, through alienation, competition, rivalry and docility. Through alienation, women forfeit their rights to be the initiators and controllers of their historical processes. The study concludes that Marxist Feminist must practically engage in struggle against inequality and all manifestations of oppression and exploitation of women.
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Chukwukaelo, Anwuri. "Sentence Patterns in Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter." AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies 5, no. 1 (2016): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/laligens.v5i1.11.

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Ali, Souad T. "Feminism in Islam: A Critique of Polygamy in Mariama Ba’s Epistolary Novel So Long A Letter." HAWWA 10, no. 3 (2012): 179–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692086-12341236.

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Abstract This paper calls for an understanding of feminism in Islam as a unique approach to feminism with potential contributions to world feminism. The paper analyzes Mariama Ba’s epistolary novel So Long A Letter within the context of a feminist approach in Islam. This paper’s primary focus is Ba’s critique of polygamy and her celebration of female bonding in the face of male oppression. Ba explores her themes through an epistolary exchange between two intimate friends who both suffered the abuse of their polygamous husbands and highlights the contrasting reactions of the two women in regard to the mistreatment by their husbands. Within a distorted misinterpretation of religion, the analysis reflects on how Islamic teachings are exploited by some Muslim men in order to gratify and justify their base desires under the guise of a transcendent sanction.
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FAYE, Diome. "The Expression of Love in Long Distance Life (1989) by Marita Golden." Addaiyan Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 1, no. 10 (2020): 30–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.36099/ajahss.1.10.5.

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In Long Distance Life (1989), Marita Golden, one of the most outstanding African American female writers, follows up her first novel,A Woman’s Place (1986) with an impressionistic sort of saga about a black American family living in Washington, D.C., from the 1920’s to the present. In Marita Golden’s Long Distance Life as in Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter (1979), most of the couples’s love lives come to an abrupt end by means of death, divorce or a presence of an intruder that is to say another lover between the two spouses. The question of love occupies a central role in the novel in so far as all most all the relationships of the characters are motivated by the issue of love. Women’s predicament in the novel is the outcome of the different aspects of love dealt with by Gloria Naylor.
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Warner, Tobias. "How Mariama Bâ Became World Literature: Translation and the Legibility of Feminist Critique." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 131, no. 5 (2016): 1239–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2016.131.5.1239.

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How did Mariama Bâ‘s 1979 novel Une si longue lettre (So Long a Letter) become one of the most widely read, taught, and translated African texts of the twentieth century? This essay traces how the Senegalese author's work became recognizable to a global audience as an attack on polygamy and a celebration of literary culture. I explore the flaws in these two conceptions of the novel, and I recover aspects of the text that were obscured along the way—especially the novel's critique of efforts to reform the legal framework of marriage in Senegal. I also compare striking shifts that occur in two key translations: the English edition that helped catalyze Bâ‘s success and a more recent translation into Wolof, the most widely spoken language in Senegal. By reading Letter back through these translations, I reposition it as a text that highlights its distance from an audience and transforms this distance into an animating contradiction.
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