The Legacy of Medea: Mariama Bâ, "Un Chant écarlate" and Marie Ndiaye, "La Femme changée en bûche"
These two novels can be linked through their use of the infanticide theme to the Medea story, of which Euripedes's play is the best-known literary version. Mariama Bâ's realist portrayal of the tensions within a mixed marriage in contemporary Senegal makes no reference to Medea, and contra...
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