Feminize Your Canon: Mariama Bâ
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/05/13/feminize-your-canon-mariama-ba/
The Paris Review's extensive exploration of author Mariama Bâ's life, part of their series on underrated female authors.
The Question and Answer section for So Long a Letter is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
To Ramatoulaye's best friend, who she is writing to.
Aissatou is Ramatoulaye's best friend, who she is writing to. She is divorced, and later moves to the United States and successfully makes a new life for herself. She and Ramatoulaye have a very kindred relationship, and she provides emotional...
Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love. Chapter 16, Ramatoulaye
Over the course of the...