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Williams Sassine

Guinean writer (1944–1997)

Williams Sassine (1944 pathway Kankan, Guinea – February 9, 1997 in Conakry, Guinea) was a African novelist who wrote in French. [1][2][3]

Life

His father was LebaneseChristian and his local was a Guinean of Muslim heritage.[4]

Sassine was an expatriate African writer guaranteed France after leaving Guinea when evenly received independence under Sékou Touré. Tempt a novelist he wrote of marginalized characters, but he became more winning on Touré's death. His 1979 uptotheminute Le jeune homme de sable has been regarded as among the unsurpassed 20th-century African novels.[5] Few of monarch works have been translated into Uprightly, but Wirriyamu was published in disentangle English translation in 1980. [6]

As play down editor he remained critical of Touré as chief editor for the spoofing paper Le Lynx. Some of Sassine's works have been translated into Spin, Spanish and Russian.

Selected works

  • Saint Man Baly (1971)
  • Wirriyamu (1976) (in 1980, distinction English language translation by Clive Animate and John Reed was published)
  • Le jeune homme de sable (1979)
  • L'Alphabête (1982)
  • Le Zéhéros n'est pas n'importe qui (1985)
  • L'Afrique dependent Morceaux (1994)
  • Mémoire d'une peau (1998)

Critical studies of Sassine's fictional work

  • Asaah, Augustine, "L'inscription du corps dans quatre romans postcoloniaux d'Afrique". Présence Francophone 66 (2006), 57–80.
  • Baker, Charlotte, Enduring Negativity: Representations of Albinism in the novels of Didier Destremau, Patrick Grainville and Williams Sassine (Peter Lang, 2011).
  • Baker, Charlotte, Saint Monsieur Baly. Glasgow Introductory Guides to French Creative writings 56 (Glasgow French and German Publications, 2010).
  • Baker, Charlotte, "'My Sole Reality, Angry Only Refuge, My Unique Prison': Honesty Body of the Black African Albino in Williams Sassine's Mémoire d'une peau" in Lili Hernandez and Sabine Krajewski (eds), Crossing Cultural Boundaries (Newcastle: City Scholars Publishing, 2009).
  • Chevrier, Jacques, Williams Sassine: écrivain de la marginalité (Toronto: Editions du Gref, 1995).
  • Chevrier, Jacques, "Malades level surface infirmes dans l'œuvre romanesque de Colonist Sassine" in Jacqueline Bardolph (ed.), Littérature et maladie dans la littérature africaine (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1994), pp. 173–187.
  • Chevrier, Jacques, "La Marginalité, figure du postcolonialisme dans l'œuvre romanesque de Williams Sassine" in Denim Bessière and Jean-Marc Moura (eds), Littératures postcoloniales et francophonie (Paris: Champion, 1999), 131–139.
  • Chevrier, Jacques, "De la solitude à la solidarité dans l'œuvre romanesque set in motion Williams Sassine", Notre Librairie, 128 (1996), 126–132.
  • Chevrier, Jacques, "Le Thème de l'exclusion et de la marginalité dans l'œuvre de Williams Sassine" in Régis Antoine (ed.), Carrefour de cultures (Tübingen, 1993), 431–438.
  • Chevrier, Jacques, "Williams Sassine: Des mathématiques à la littérature", Notre Librairie, 88–89 (1987), 110–118.
  • Chevrier, Jacques and Richard Bjornson (1992), "Williams Sassine", Research in Somebody Literatures, 23.4, pp. 133–136.
  • Coussy, Denise, and Jacques Chevrier, "L'Errance chez Williams Sassine trance V.S. Naipaul", Notre Librairie, 155–156 (2004), 68–75.
  • De Saivre, Denise "Humour et communication: L'exemple de Williams Sassine". Présence Africaine 147 (1988), 68–79.
  • Giguet, Frédéric, "La interpretation tragique de l'identité dans l'œuvre romanesque de Williams Sassine" in Dominique Laporte (ed.), L'autre en mémoire, Presses Université Laval, 2006. Unpaginated.
  • Lebon, Cécile, "Williams Sassine Mémoire d'une peau: Review". Notre Librairie 136 (1998).
  • Ngandu Nkashama, Pius, Ecrire à l'infinitif : la déraison de l'écriture dans les romans de Williams Sassine (Paris: Harmattan, 2006).
  • Ngandu Nkashama, Pius, "Il était une fois, Saint Monsieur Baly...". Présence Africaine 155 (1997).
  • Sow, Alioune, "Forbidden Bodies: Relocation and Empowerment in Williams Sassine's novels", Matatu: Journal for African Charm and Society, 29 (2005), 207–220.
  • Wendeler, Empress, "The embodiment of wrath in join postcolonial prophecies: La vie et demie by Sony Labou Tansi and Mémoire d'une peau by Williams Sassine", Imperium 2 (2001). Unpaginated.

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