Free-Thinking Women in Mariama Ba´s So Long a Letter

In Mar Long Ba 's So Long a Letter, the author is using female characters to draw a dichotomy that exists in Senegalese society. A clear contrast between traditional cultural practice and modern ideology that exists in revolutionary and free thinking women forms a clear line between these two extreme opposing views. Ramatoulaye, Daba, Aissatou are important persons in the novel and show contemporary roles and ideas of women by comparing their cultural norms.

In So Long a Letter, the author Mariama Ba is struggling to cope with the changing social situation and the role that women play in it. Through the adult life different from the past shared by Rama and Aisatou, Ba tells a story that Ba can create women a new space and role for themselves and their daughters by crushing tradition in many ways I will draw.

Women play an important role in African society. In Alifa Rifaat and Mariama Ba's So Long A Letter minaret, women are drawn as close to reality as possible. Their fight and desire, as to why women do what they do, as to why they can not leave, there is no life of men, why men behave like doing it Will be explained. All these problems show that Africa's women have maintained Africa truly after all these experiences. Without women, the African continent may be lagging behind the present. Fortunately, as Ali Mazrui imagined in his documentary program "African: Triple Heritage", most people know this.

As in Maria MaB's So Long a Letter, feminist texts are hardly studied in West Africa. Maria Maba, born in Senegal in 1929, is an idol of African literature and advertises her work as a "modern Muslim woman" as a writer. Her novel was recognized almost immediately, and So Long a Letter, published in 1981, won the prestigious Noma Writing Award. This text was originally written in French and later translated into English. It has been translated into more than a dozen languages ​​and continues to be one of the most studied feminist literary texts in the world as it criticizes the role of marriage system and religion in repressing women. Like Olive Schreiner who wrote about 80 years ago, Bâ is interested in commenting on women's experiences.