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Questions about the French novel "Segu" ("Ségou: les murailles de terre") by Maryse Condé published in 1984 Use with the tags [maryse-conde] and [french-language]
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Is a character's name in Segu a reference to another author?
In the third chapter "Segu: Grandeur and Decline of an African Family", Pfaff brings up the naming of some of the characters in Segu:
FP: And you wink at people with some of your characters. … Similarly, Ola Balogun is a character who appears in the sequel to Segu, The Children of Segu, and is a reference to the Nigerian filmaker. …
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Is a character's name in Segu a reference to another author?
When Tiekoro returned to Segu, he opened a small Koranic school, or zawiya, in the family compound. …
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Is the white man at the other side of the Joliba river a historically identifiable person?
"You remember that story
you kept telling me, about a white man who was at the gates of Segu
when your father was born? Well, I know who it was... It wasn't an
evil spirit, an albino, or whatever. … Later in the book, Eucaristus finds and reads the book that Mungo Park wrote about his travels, including his visit to Segu, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa performed under the direction and …
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Meaning of "The Word that Descends by Night" in "Segu"
Maryse Condé's third novel Segu (originally "Ségou: les murailles de terre") is divided into five parts, each of which is titled. …
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