“Beauty of the Past”: Traditional Aesthetic Canon and Female Characters in Francophone African Literatures
The article examines the influence of traditional aesthetic canon on the representation of women in African poetry and novels. It emphasizes the crucial role of an eminent Senegalian poet Leopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001), the founder of négritude theory. Since the 1930s, he praised the beauty of a...
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| Language: | English |
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A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Studia Litterarum |
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| Online Access: | http://studlit.ru/images/2018-3-4/Lyakhovskaya.pdf |