This is one of the instances which make us to look at how Bâ try to criticise the inequality present at the time between men and women. Even when they were doing so they were facing the oppositions from men surrounding them as well as Bâ’s maternal grandparents did not plan to educate her beyond primary school. In the novel it is indicates that Ramatoulaye, her children as well as other female were attending Koranic school, and few of them attended French school. She was a prominent low student at school because though she received her early education in French, she was attending at the same time Koranic school. Bâ was raised during the colonial revolution period. Either in Ramatoulaye’s life or Aissatou’s own.įirst looking at the setting it is seen that the background of the author has a major impact on the way she writes her novel. The most recurrent similarity is the chauvinism criticise by Ba. The presence of similarity and references to Ba’s life is present throughout the book. Mariama Ba’s life is reflected in the book first with the similar setting and with major figures Ramatoulaye and Aissatou. It is a record of Ramatoulaye’s emotional struggle for survival after her husband’s abrupt decision to take a second wife. So Long a Letter is a sequence of events narrated in the form of a letter, by the (fictional) recently widowed Senegalese school teacher Ramatoulaye. She lived in a similar society as the one in her book, where girls did not go far in school, women were obedient to their husband, and men were treated as superior than women. Born in Dakar, she was raised a Muslim, but at an early age started to criticise the inequalities between the sexes resulting from African traditions.
Mariama Bâ (April 17, 1929–August 17, 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, who wrote in French.
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