The essay, "Senegalese Migrant Novelist Fatou Diome is Now the Militant Marianne," by Professor of English Rosemary Haskell appeared in World Literature Today's "Cultural Cross Sections" blog.
“Senegalese Migrant Novelist Fatou Diome is Now the Militant Marianne,” an essay by Professor of English Rosemary Haskell, appeared in World Literature Today’s “Cultural Cross Sections” blog on Oct. 4, 2017.
The essay examines Senegalese novelist Fatou Diome’s 2017 pre-French-election polemic, Marianne porte plainte! Identité nationale: Des passerelles, pas des barrières! [Marianne complains! National identity: Gangways, not barriers!]
In the nonfiction monograph “Marianne,” Diome, migrant to France, and author of many novels, including the best-selling “Le ventre de l’Atlantique” (translated, “The Belly of the Atlantic“) successfully adapts her trademark fictional themes and methods to denounce French “assimiliationism” and to champion the multicultural state.