So Long a Letter | Essays and Criticism
- The Differences Among the Polygamous Marriages in So Long a Letter
In the following essay the author discusses the differences among the polygamous marriages in So Long a Letter.
- The Place of the Woman or the Woman Displaced in Mariama Ba's Une Si Longue Lettre
In the following review, Ann McElaney-Johnson examines Mariama Ba's Une Si Longue Lettre, a realistic story of a woman who struggles to define her place in the social order, and describes the novel's dual use of displacement.
- Enclosure/Disclosure in Mariama Ba's Une Si Longue Lettre
In the following essay, Mildred Mortimer studies the Senegalese woman writer Mariama Ba's novel Une si Longue Lettre and attempts to resolve whether Ba reinforces the idea that women social reformers are either sacrificed or remade by the patriarchal society or whether she expresses them as strengthening the female bond.
- Still a Victim? Mariama Ba's Une si Longue Lettre
In the following review, Femi Ojo-Ade discusses Mariama Ba's Une Si Longue Lettre, a novel that expresses the writer's desire to showcase women's role in a heavily patriarchal society and how they struggle against and within that structure while striving for a revolutionized future.
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