“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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Main Author: Nina D. Lyakhovskaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature 2018-12-01
Series:Studia Litterarum
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Online Access:http://studlit.ru/images/2018-3-4/Lyakhovskaya.pdf
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