Religion and Francophone Senegalese women writing: Islam and the birth of a free, autonomous and universal feminine subject
[Thesis]
Fatou Faye
Hampton, Safoi-Babana
Michigan State University
2016
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Committee members: Harrow, Kenneth; Norris, Anna; Porter, Laurence M.
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-83980-6
Ph.D.
French, Language and Literature
Michigan State University
2016
In this project, I examine how the Senegalese women writers engaged with Islam to liberate Muslim women from the patriarchal system since the birth of the Senegalese women's writing until now. The analysis of narratives by Nafissatou Diallo, Aminata Maïga Ka, Ken Bugul, Fatou Diome and Marie Ndiaye allowed me to better understand the views that inform the process of building a free and autonomous, but especially a universal female subject and her relationship to Islam.