Dakar
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Cheikh Anta Diop University
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and worked for several years as a librarian. In 1961, she married the film director
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra (31 January 1925 – 4 November 1987) was a Dahomeyan/Senegalese film director and historian. As he lived in Senegal after the age of 10, he is more associated with that nation.
Background
He was born in Porto Novo, Da ...
.
Several of her poems were published in the literary magazine ''
Présence Africaine
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'' in 1976. Her first novel, written in 1980, was ''Le Quimboiseur l'avait dit'' (the 1983 English translation published by
Longman
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was entitled ''As The Sorcerer Said''), which is set in the Caribbean. Her second novel ''Juletane'', published in 1982, is the story of a Caribbean woman who married a Senegalese man who, she discovers, is already married. This was followed by a collection of stories, ''Femmes échouées'' (Fallen women), in 1988.
Warner-Vieyra died aged 78 on 29 December 2017 in
Tours
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,
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Bibliography
* ''Le Quimboiseur l’avait dit…'', Paris/Dakar: Présence Africaine, 1980. English translation by Dorothy S. Blair, ''As the Sorcerer Said'', Harlow, Essex, UK: Longman, 1982. Extract in '' Daughters of Africa'', edited by Margaret Busby, 1992, pp. 621–30.
* ''Juletane'', Paris/Dakar: Présence Africaine, 1982. English translation by Betty Wilson, ''Juletane'', Oxford / Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1987.
* ''Femmes échouées''. Paris/Dakar: Présence Africaine, 1988.
Further reading
* Ezeigbo, Theodora Akachi, "Women's Empowerment and National Integration: Ba's ''So Long a Letter'' and Warner-Vieyra's ''Juletane''", in
Ernest N. Emenyonu
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and Charles E. Nnolim (eds), ''Current Trends in Literature and Language Studies in West Africa''. Ibadan: Kraft Books Limited, 1994: 7–19.
* Midihouan, Thecla, "Des Antilles à l'Afrique: Myriam Warner-Vieyra", ''Notre Librairie'' 74 (1984): 39–53.
* Mortimer, Mildred, "An Interview with Myriam Warner-Vieyra", ''
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'' 16.1 (1993): 108–15.
* Mortimer, Mildred, "The Female Quester in Myriam Warner-Vieyra's ''Le Quimboiseur l’avait dit'' and ''Juletane''", ''College Literature'' 22 (February 1995): 37–50.
* Ngate, Jonathan, "Reading Warner-Vieyra's ''Juletane''", ''Callaloo'' 9.4 (1986): 553–64.
* Pfaff, Françoise, "Conversations with Myriam Warner-Vieyra", ''College Language Association Journal'' 39 (September 1995): 26–48.
* Rogers, Juliette M., "Reading, Writing, and Recovering: Creating a Women's Creole Identity in Myriam Warner-Vieyra's ''Juletane''", ''
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'' 69.4 (March 1996): 595–604.
* Sol, Antoinette Marie, "Histoire(s) et traumatisme(s): l'infanticide dans le roman féminin antillais", ''The French Review'' 81.5 (April 2008): 967–84.