Novel
Mariage, on copie
Not translated into English
Aïcha Fofana · 1994
Synopsis
In Diakité's studio, where he is copying a cassette for them, images scroll across a television screen: a filmed wedding, its guests, their finery, against a backdrop of political speeches. They awaken the memories of four clients with difficult marriages, among them Jocelyne, a Frenchwoman who gave up everything for Tidiani, whom she met in Paris during his medical studies, and Amina Kouyaté, a brilliant lawyer whose membership of the griot caste prevents her from marrying.
Context
The novel appeared in 1994 in Bamako, from Jamana, in 88 pages. The journalist Yaya Sidibe reviewed it in Le Républicain as early as July 1994 and noted in it the clash of cultures, the opposition of tradition and modernity, caste barriers, rural exodus and emigration. The back cover stresses, behind the images, economic hardship and the contradictions of society. A second novel by the author, La Fourmilière, appeared in 2006.
Who it is for
A short novel, in French, of fewer than a hundred pages, built on back-and-forth movements between a cassette being copied and memories.
Prizes and reception
The first novel published by a Malian woman, read as feminist and confident in the progress of women's condition in Mali.
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