Adele King

En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Documents about the work En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages (1998) / Ahmadou Kourouma (1927-2003) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Pages in data.bnf.fr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Related authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 This page in data.bnf.fr lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Sources and references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Link to the main catalogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Sources

Allah n'est pas obligé

Salue par la critique pour son roman precedent (« En attendant le vote des betes sauvages »), Ahmadou Kourouma connait aujourd’hui la consecration avec « Allah n’est pas oblige » qui a obtenu le prix Renaudot, le prix Goncourt des lyceens et le grand prix Jean Giono. Dans une langue foisonnante, « Allah n’est pas oblige » relate, a la premiere personne, les peregrinations de Birahima, un jeune enfant-soldat, dans la folie des guerres du Liberia et de Sierra-Leone. Par sa violence et son desespoir, mais aussi son insouciance et sa gaiete, le recit de Birahima illustre a sa facon le style de vie des small-soldiers analyse plus haut par A. Honwana.

Women Writers in Francophone Africa

In the rapidly growing field of African literature in French, writing by women has largely been ignored. This book, the first comprehensive study of womens writing in francophone sub-Saharan Africa, redressess the critical imbalance and celebrates the originality of this fascinating new literature.Considering questions of genre and ideology, the author highlights the tension between the individualistic act of writing and the collective tradition of African society - a tension which emerges as the key to each of the texts discussed. Focusing on four major authors - Mariama Ba, Aminata Sow Fall, Werewere Liking and Calixthe Beyala, each with an international reputation - the book uses a feminist approach to consider the duality of the African woman, who is often torn between modernity and tradition. This duality, the author suggests, is reconfigured through fictional writings which provide a space for alternative female subjectivities to emerge.

Black Paris: The African Writers' Landscape

Documents the struggles and successes of three generations of African writers as they strive to establish their artistic, literary, and cultural identities in France