Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter

Long letters by MariamaBA When people hear words like feminism and feminism, the concept of what feminism and feminism means means to blur in our minds. We can not answer clearly what women's problem is, but we can recognize it when we see it or when there is no woman. However, this concept is at best optional. What is an evening dress, it seems to define and dress up a women's aura, and women's nausea will be condemned to be born without feminization.

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.

Such a long letter, MariamaBâ's first novel, means literally a long letter. Along with the beginning of the novel, Ramatoulaye Fall began writing a letter to her lifelong friend AissatouBâ. The opportunity of writing is the recent widow of Ramachu. When she provided details of her husband's death to her friends, she talked about major events in their lives. Ramatoulaye's husband, Modou died of a heart attack, so the series of letters between the main character Ramatoulaye Fall and her best friend Aissatou was written very long. These letters were written in 'Aida', a process of mourning for the 4 and 10 days that the widow of Muslims of Sedadgal culture must follow while participating in Ramatuley. Through these letters, Ramatoulaye detailed the emotions that drowned her in a few days after her husband's death and how he lost his life.