Recontress Essentielles (Texts and Translations): An MLA Text Edition (MLA Texts and Translations) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873527933 ISBN 13: 9780873527934

Publisher: Modern Language Association, 2002

Synopsis

Published in 1969, Essential Encounters is the first novel by a woman of sub-Saharan francophone Africa. Its story of love, infertility, a failed marriage, and adultery looks at both interpersonal connections andnational politics from a feminist perspective.

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Review

"This wonderful short novel is an ideal introduction to francophone literature and culture for both undergraduate and graduate students. It is very readable and offers a useful perspective on race and gender in the late colonial period." --Françoise Lionnet, author of Autobiographical Voices and Postcolonial Representations

About the Author

Th r se Kuoh-Moukoury (b. 1938) is a novelist, journalist, children's rights lawyer, and activist who is committed to the cause of African women. Currently she divides her time between Paris and Cameroon and is working on her second novel, based on the life of the political martyr Alexandre Douala Manga Bell. Cheryl Toman is associate professor of modern languages and literatures at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of Contemporary Matriarchies in Cameroonian Francophone Literature and the editor of Defying the Global Language: Perspectives in Ethnic Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Modern Language Association
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0873527933
• ISBN 13: 9780873527934
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 88
• Editor: Toman Cheryl