Cultural transition in colonial and postcolonial societies.
The development of critical and cultural literacies in a study of Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter in the South African literature classroom.. Ba, Mariama. 1980. Une Si Longue Lettre.Abstract: My dissertation proposes to analyze the problematic of language and power in African literature written in French and English. Focusing on novels produced within the controversial contexts of La Francophonie and The Commonwealth, this thesis investigates the tight relationship between language, power and identity. By going beyond normative approaches which focus on the variations of.
