"A very important contribution to the field by an African scholar with a thorough, empathetic command of the field of African feminine writing in French."--Chri

The late 1960s witnessed the emergence of African women writers on the African literary space earlier dominated by African men. African women’s writings large

Writing from the Hearth probes the relationship of gender to space in close readings of texts of Francophone women writers of Africa: Aoua Kéita, Mariama Bâ,

Considering questions of genre and ideology, the author highlights the tension between the individualistic act of writing and the collective tradition of Africa