Calixthe beyala biography definition
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Abstract
The article examined the femininity of Calixthe Beyala in "La Sonnette" through the prism of feminism, which is the social, economic, political, and cultural movement for gender equality. Femininity was created by Beyala to represent the unique suffering of African women; thus, femininity is a uniquely African philosophy. Although there are many types of feminism, the author has focused on the radical variety because of its close relationship to Calixthe Beyala's femininity. Calixthe Beyala wants all women to have fun. Beyala examined the marginalisation of women on the African continent using her conception of feminism. She draws inspiration from her childhood and her experiences as an African woman to describe the painful situation of the African woman. She noted that in Western society, certain measures are taken for the emancipation of women, while in Africa, women are at the mercy of men. According to Calixthe Beyala, the development of patriarchy has reinforc
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Calixthe Beyala
Cameroonian-French Novelist
Calixthe Beyala (born ) is a Cameroonian-French writer who writes in French.
Biography
[edit]A Cameroonian author and member of the Eton people, Calixthe Beyala was born in Sa'a to Cameroonian parents.
Her aunt and grandmother were particularly strong influences on her development, and she grew up listening to her grandmother's stories. Stories from which she drew inspiration and used to motivate her to work hard toward the creation of a meaningful career.[1]
Beyala was educated at the École Principale du Camp Mboppi in Douala and went on to study at the Lycée des Rapides à Bangui and the Lycée Polyvalent de Douala. She eventually won a scholarship to study in Paris at the age of seventeen, where she through a strong academic performance obtained a baccalaureate.
After a few years in Spain she published her first book, C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée, at the age of 23 and eventually chose to become a full-time wr
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Beyala, Calixthe –
Cameroonian novelist, short story writer, and essayist.
INTRODUCTION
At once admired and reviled in contemporary literary circles, Beyala is a highly controversial African francophone novelist; her works have been both awarded major literary prizes and judged to contain plagiarized passages from other fictional works. Beyala's novels typically consist of nonlinear narratives that draw upon the African oral berättande tradition to call attention to the misery and misfortune of contemporary women who are dominated physically, emotionally, and economically in postcolonial patriarchal African kultur. Considered a radical feminist by many commentators and an outright male-hater bygd some, Beyala boldly challenges the subjugation of women in her works through the use of levande images of sex and violence.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Beyala was born in Douala, Cameroon, in Her parents, who had twelve children, were very poor, and Beyala was raised bygd an older sister in