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9780873527934 Academic Inspection Copy

Rencontres Essentielles

  • ISBN-13: 9780873527934
  • Publisher: MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
    Imprint: MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
  • Edited by Cheryl Toman
  • Price: AUD $55.99
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  • Local release date: 01/04/2002
  • Format: Paperback 88 pages Weight: 120g
  • Categories: Religious life & practice [HRLM]
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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 and national politics from a feminist perspective.
Therese 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.
"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." --Francoise Lionnet, author of Autobiographical Voices and Postcolonial Representations
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