![]() ![]() In her forceful portrayal of one woman’s life in Central Africa in the late 1980s, Rawiri prompts us not only to reconsider our notions of African feminism and the canon of francophone African women’s writing but also to expand our awareness of the issues women face across the world today in the workforce, in the bedroom, and among family and peers. The tragic death of her only child-her daughter Rékia-accentuates Emilienne’s anguish, all the more so because of her subsequent barrenness and the pressure that she concede to her husband’s taking a second wife. Those closest to her, and even she herself, constantly question her role as woman, wife, mother, and lover. She completes her university studies in Paris marries a man from another ethnic group becomes a leader in women’s liberation enjoys professional success, even earning more than her husband and eventually takes a female lover. Angle Rawiri holds the distinction of being the author of the first novel to be published by a Gabonese writer.1 In her third novel, The Fury and Cries of Women, she focuses on the maladies faced in marriage and motherhood by an educated African woman. It offers a gripping account of a modern woman, Emilienne, who questions traditional values and seeks emancipation from them.Įmilienne’s active search for feminism on her own terms is tangled up with cultural expectations and taboos of motherhood, marriage, polygamy, divorce, and passion. ![]() Translated by Sara Hanaburgh, this third novel of the three Rawiri published is considered the richest of her fictional prose. Gabon’s first female novelist, Angèle Rawiri probed deeper into the issues that writers a generation before her-Mariama Bâ and Aminata Sow Fall-had begun to address. ![]()
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