Poetry
Cherguiya, odes lyriques à une femme du Sahel
Not translated into English
Ousmane Moussa Diagana · 1999
Synopsis
The poet's second collection, lyrical odes addressed to a woman of the Sahel. It is dedicated to a Moorish woman, as the first was to a Soninke woman, and sings of a love that is hard to live and to embrace between communities sharing the same space, one Arab-Berber, the other Black African. The woman serves in it as a medium for a quest for national unity, often carried by prayer; she is, according to one critic, the Mauritanian woman, a plural woman.
Context
The collection appeared in 1999 in Limoges, from the publisher Le Bruit des autres, in sixty-seven pages, five years after a first book of verse, Notules de rêves pour une symphonie amoureuse. In an interview given that year to the journal Sépia, the author announced it as the book of a difficult love between communities. Fifteen years after his death, the journal Traversées mauritanides devoted a tribute to him, and his Soninke-French dictionary appeared posthumously from Karthala.
Who it is for
Poems in French, brief; it is better to know that Mauritania brings together Arab-Berber and Black African communities.
Prizes and reception
The linguist M'bouh Séta Diagana sees in it, together with the first collection, a poetry of national reconciliation.
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