Let me begin this blog by saying there was much insight in this book about existentialism, which complemented and helped me think through/work with my recent existential crisis and the issue, the search for meaning. I spent the last few months or so th…
The main thing I learned from this book is that “being a dude” is more like a pattern of behavior rather than a biological sex. When I was reading the parts where she calls the women as “number 1” and “number 2,” I felt quite uncomfortable. At first, I thought it was because the content […]
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I am deeply disturbed. The story follows three women forced into polygamous marriages, starting with Ramla, who has just finished high school and found true love, only for her parents to marry her off to a fifty-year-old rich man because money. Then there’s Hindou, Ramla’s sister, who is married to her alcoholic, abusive cousin, who […]
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At
the beginning, I was worried and a bit lost. Because this
is a literature course! And those books were not easy to understand. Just
seemed overwhelming. To be honest, when I think about our course now, I still remember
what I read, Proust’s Com…
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At
the beginning, I was worried and a bit lost. Because this
is a literature course! And those books were not easy to understand. Just
seemed overwhelming. To be honest, when I think about our course now, I still remember
what I read, Proust’s Com…
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The Broken Column, 1944 by Frida Kahlo
For Ramla, I feel so angry about Alhadji Boubakari, threatening her with a letter of repudiation to her mother. Ok, evil and low. Why did he pick Dadiyel, her mother, as his hostage? Cuz he knew that she is Ramla…
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The Broken Column, 1944 by Frida Kahlo
For Ramla, I feel so angry about Alhadji Boubakari, threatening her with a letter of repudiation to her mother. Ok, evil and low. Why did he pick Dadiyel, her mother, as his hostage? Cuz he knew that she is Ramla…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Djaïli Amadou Amal
I believe that Love me Tender by Debré is a novel underscoring a woman’s desire for authenticity at the expense of the loss and dissatisfaction involved in this desire. It exposes the beauty of pursuing one’s own course of life … Continue r…
