As She Was Discovering Tigony
ISBN: 9781609174958
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Michigan State University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: African literature (French);

Dorcas Keurléonan-Moricet is a brilliant white geophysicist posted on assignment in Africa. She falls in love with a young African man, Ségué n'Di, and enters into an extramarital affair with him. In her professional work, she discovers deposits of minerals of inestimable worth. Reading the current age of globalization and neoliberalism as one in which the riches of Africa are again being cynically exploited by multinational companies--including her own--Keurléonan-Moricet's views and her life gradually change. As the popular resistance against the dictatorial regime in power grows, she comes to play a key role in the unfolding political drama.

Olympe Bhêly-Quenum has been a professor, international civil servant, journalist, anthropologist, sociologist and researcher, literary critic, and writer. His novels and short stories, originally written in French, have been translated into English, German, Slovene, Czech, and Greek.

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