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Aminata Sow Fall and the Centre africain d'animation et d'échanges culturels in Senegal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Rosa Bobia  and
Cheryl Staunton
Rosa Bobia
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of French, Kennesaw State College, Marietta, Georgia
Cheryl Staunton
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of French, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
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Now recognised as the leading woman novelist of francophone Africa, Aminata Sow Fall first achieved literary attention with the publication of Le Revenant (Dakar, 1976). After a rather long stay in France, where she studied at the Sorbonne and became agrégée de lettres, Sow Fall decided to distance herself from other African writters by ensuring that ‘The Ghost’ contained few if any traces of her experiences in the West. As explained several years later, what really surprised her was that novels published by blacks always referenced themselves to the West, whereas she felt the need ‘to present our literature to others so that they see and understand us’:

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Africana
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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , September 1991 , pp. 529 - 532
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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References

1 ‘Confidences’, radio broadcast, Abidjan, 1982.

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4 Interview with author in Dakar, March 1989.

5 Extract from Sow Fall's reply to our 1985 questionnaire.

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17 Aminata Sow Fall, ‘Pour une plume libérée’, in ibid. p. 1.

18 ‘Qu'est-ce que Le Bureau africain pour la défense des libertés de l'écrivain?’, in ibid. p. 6.

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