Mariama goodman biography of george
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Finishing off another half-started book, this time it is a ‘handbag’ book that’s been stashed away for months — a gentle reminder that in this most remarkable year I have got out of the habit of needing a book to read while waiting for trains, health professionals, hairdressers and friends in coffee shops. I haven’t even needed a handbag…
This classic of Senegalese literature is a perfect ‘handbag’ book because it’s a slim 96 pages, one of which is a glossary. There is an Introduction too, by Kenneth Harrow of Michigan, who tells me that this is one of the first novels by a Senegalese woman in French and that it became a foundational text for Francophone women writers. This is his summary of the novella:
Written as a semi-autobiographical account, its protagonist Ramatoulaye is a woman who came of age during the period of late colonialism, married a Senegalese nationalist and gave birth to twelve children as their country passed into independence. She faced her husband’s rejection and then his death as the country experienced the passage from colony to modern nation. (p.i)
BEWARE: SPOILERS
So much for the big picture. Written as a letter to her dearest friend Aissatou (who is confusingly addressed as ‘sis
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Once again I’ve been distracted from reading my assorted LitBios of Eleanor Dark because I have been busy close-reading Garry Kissane’s award-winning biography of George Johnston (1912-1970) so that I can lend it to a fellow booklover.
Winner of the Age Book of the Year in 1986, this biography is interesting in its own right but also because of the persisting view that (as Wikipediasuggests) it was the imminent publication of Johnston’s Clean Straw for Nothing that prompted his wife Charmian Clift (1923-1969) to suicide in 1969. It is said that this is because the characterisation of Cressida Morley in the novel exposes Clift’s infidelities during the couple’s sojourn on the Greek island of Hydra where they lived from 1954 to 1964. A posthumously published essay indicates that Clift was troubled by it, but Johnston in his one public comment a couple of months after her death said that ‘Cressida was fictional’. The fact that Cressida the character in the novel is not a writer as Clift was, is also taken by some as an indication that Johnston was diminishing her as a writer and his collaborator. Whatever about that, Garry Kinnane makes it clear that he rejects the accusation:
It is the view of many of their friends, and many who