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Title: THE LITTLE PEUL
A NOVEL
By: Mariama Barry, Carrol F. Coates (Trans), Irene Assiba D'Almeida
Format: Paperback

List price: £19.95


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ISBN 10: 0813929636
ISBN 13: 9780813929637
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
Pub. date: 13 April, 2010
Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
Pages: 192
Description: Born in Dakar but of Guinean origin, Mariama Barry claims both Senegal and Guinea as 'her' countries. She is the first woman writer of Guinea to have gained extensive international recognition. This autobiography tells her story of an early childhood spent in Senegal.
Synopsis: Born in Dakar but of Guinean origin, Mariama Barry claims both Senegal and Guinea as 'her' countries. This dual background lends her significant and widespread visibility not only because she is the first woman writer of Guinea to have gained extensive international recognition but also because Senegalese women novelists were the first African women writing in French to win international acclaim. Barry's autobiographical novel, "La petite Peule (2000)", is the story of an early Peul childhood spent in Senegal. The Peul are a primarily nomadic people of western Africa. The book opens with a description of the violence and trauma of a young girl's excision at age six. This is but the first of many trials. After a younger brother is almost killed by a truck, the family moves to La Medina, a Dakar neighborhood where rats gnaw on children's toes at night and where children must struggle with adults in order to fetch water or use the communal toilet. Attending school is the one high point in the girl's life, but even there she must stand up to older bullies. Her family life is completely upset when her mother walks out, leaving her to clean, cook, and care for her younger brothers.Then when her father finds it impossible to cope with the children and with his failing business, he withdraws the little Peul from school and relocates the family once again, this time to his mother's village in the mountains of northern Guinea. Indignant that children have no rights and are lied to and deserted by their own parents, the young protagonist rebels against the idea that women should accept suffering and subjugation to men. She is determined to direct her own life and assert her right to do so.
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
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