How Did a Poem by an Influential Senegalese Feminist Author Go Missing?

Karen Michele Nikos — January 29, 2024 - 2:50pm

Senegalese author and feminist Mariama Bâ is known for her French-language novels “So Long a Letter” and “Scarlet Song.” She became, before her death in 1981, one of the 20th century’s most written-about and widely taught authors.

Now, because of research by Tobias Warner, an associate professor of French at University of California, Davis, a forgotten poem she wrote before her novels is now receiving attention. How did this piece of work become lost to history?

French Professor Has Blues on Her Mind

Karen Michele Nikos — August 02, 2018 - 4:41pm

Professor Julia Simon had been teaching, singing and writing about the blues. Now she has a podcast.

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How Did a Poem by an Influential Senegalese Feminist Author Go Missing?

French Professor Has Blues on Her Mind