![]() ![]() ![]() Mariama Ba’s life is reflected in the text 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 novel, where girls did not go far in school, women were obedient to their husbands, and men were treated as superior than women. Mariama Bâ (Ap– August 17, 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, who wrote in French, 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. The events in the novel take place in Dakar the capital of Senegal during the precolonial period and purely in the Senegalese’s tradition and culture. ![]() The setting of the novel So Long a Letter is really important and decisive because it is directly related to the author’s background. Setting in literature refers to the where (geographical/physical) and when (historical) events in a story take place, be it in drama, poetry or prose. ![]()
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