The Fury and Cries of Women
Gabon s first female novelist, Angele Rawiri probed deeper into the issues that writers a generation before her Mariama Ba and Aminata Sow Fall had begun to address Translated by Sara Hanaburgh, this third novel of the three Rawiri published is considered the richest of her fictional prose It offers a gripping account of a modern woman, Emilienne, who questions traditional values and seeks emancipation from them.Emilienne s active search for feminism on her own terms is tangled up with cultural expectations and taboos of motherhood, marriage, polygamy, divorce, and passion She completes her university studies in Paris marries a man from another ethnic group becomes a leader in women s liberation enjoys professional success, even earning than her husband and eventually takes a female lover Yet still she remains unsatisfied Those closest to her, and even she herself, constantly question her role as woman, wife, mother, and lover The tragic death of her only child her daughter Rekia accentuates Emilienne s anguish, all the so because of her subsequent barrenness and the pressure that she concede to her husband s taking a second wife.In her forceful portrayal of one woman s life in Central Africa in the late 1980s, Rawiri prompts us not only to reconsider our notions of African feminism and the canon of francophone African women s writing but also to expand our awareness of the issues women face across the world today in the workforce, in the bedroom, and among family and peers. Best Download [ The Fury and Cries of Women ] Author [ Angele Rawiri ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Emelienne the central character earnsthan her husband Divorce, abortion, reiki, white witch doctors, lesbians, and barren women are all topics represented, which are rare in African literature pretty amazing since this was published in 1989.
- 25 December 2018 Angele Rawiri
- Hardcover
- 232 pages
- 0813936020
- Angele Rawiri
- The Fury and Cries of Women