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Time, place, expectation, disappointment, surrender, rebellion, desired commitment and buried anger all surface in women of every culture, but when Mariama Ba applies them to her African marriage culture in So Long a Letter, she goes a phase deeper into female existence. It is that silent partner, always a step behind, always there, always observing, not quite doing and not quite asserting itself into the whole. From this part of herself, Ba breaks the final barrier to silence. Bibliography lists 1 source. jvBALong.rtf
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applies them to her African marriage culture in So Long a Letter, she goes a phase deeper into female existence. Ba explores the subject from that external place that is
woman-internal, that part of everywoman she drags along with her and from which she only sometimes accepts advice and always keeps hidden. It is that silent partner, always a step
behind, always there, always observing, not quite doing and not quite asserting itself into the whole. From this part of herself, Ba breaks the final barrier to silence.
Ba breaks this last sack through Ramatoulaye (Rama), who is committed to a higher ideal of love and companionship than her friend and African men with
their "polygamic instincts" (Ba 34). Men manipulate the laws and culture to fit their own needs, while women are placed in the position of accepting what comes to them, and
that part of them must remain forever silent. While Ramas story is written toward Africa and Islam, Ba embraces the global when Rama sanctions the divorce of her best friend
Aissatou. This is a rebellious action outside of Ramas African experience, and after she moves out of this experience, she moves outside of its physical borders by recalling the tale
of a European spinster. Rama calls this an "aspect of the New Africa" (24), a reference to modern, global politics affecting the lives of African women today.
In contrast to modern precepts, the student may note, the form of Ramas marriage remains true to past concepts in that Rama stays with her husbands
polygyny. As her husband marries a younger social climber for sex, Rama decides she will stay with him out of love. Rama accepts the role of woman laid out for
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