Kesso Barry
Kesso Barry (born 1948) is a Guinean autobiographical writer in French.[1] Her autobiography, dedicated to her daughter, recounts the restrictive gender roles of her traditional upbringing as a member of the Fulani nobility in Guinea-Conakry, and her escape to a Westernised life in Paris.[2]
Works
- Kesso, princesse peuhle [Kesso, a Fulani princess], Paris: Seghers, 1988. ISBN 978-2232100970
References
- ^ Elisabeth Bekers (2012). "Barry, Kesso". In Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong; Henry Louis Gates (ed.). Dictionary of African Biography. OUP USA. pp. 389–90. ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) - ^ Edgard Sankara (2011). "Kesso Barry: Autobiography, Masculinity, Ambiguity, and Limited Reception". Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies: From Africa to the Antilles. University of Virginia Press. pp. 74–. ISBN 978-0-8139-3171-5.
Further reading
- Irène Assiba d'Almeida, 'Kesso Barry's Kesso, or Autobiography as a Subverted Tale', Research in African Literatures Vol. 28, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 66–82
- Edgard Sankara, L’appropriation du masculin dans Kesso, princesse peuhle de Kesso Barry, Itinéraires, No. 1 (2008). Retrieved 24 December 2016. DOI: 10.4000/itineraires.2221
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