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So Long a Letter

by Mariama Ba

Epistolary novel depicting a Senegalese woman's reflections on polygamy and marriage through letters to a friend

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Mariama Ba

Senegalese novelist whose slim debut So Long a Letter became one of the most important feminist novels in African literature, examining polygamy, female friendship, and societal change in Dakar through epistolary form.

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