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Essential Encounters: An MLA Translation - Kuoh-Moukoury, Thérèse, and Toman, Cheryl (Translated by)
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Published in 1969, Essential Encounters is the first novel by a woman of sub-Saharan francophone Africa. Th???r???se Kuoh-Moukoury, of Cameroon, wrote it "to inspire other women to write." Its story of love, infertility, a failed marriage, and adultery looks at both interpersonal connections and national politics from a feminist perspective. In the introduction the volume editor, Cheryl Toman, provides valuable background with a discussion of African matriarchy, past and present; ethnic groups in Cameroon; interracial ...

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Essential Encounters: An MLA Translation 2002, Modern Language Association of America, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780873527941

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