Fatou Diome's novel "The Belly of the Atlantic" Fatou Diome's novel, Le Ventre de l'Atlantique, tells the story of the coming of age of a young Senegalese woman living in Strasbourg after emigrating from the island of Niodior. A reflection of the author's own life, the fictionalized story recounts Salie's experiences. After growing up in a community in which strict traditions required women to submit to men, Salie decided at a young age that she would educate herself even though she was not enrolled in school. The teacher Ndétare quickly discovers her academic and motivational abilities and decides to guide her in her schooling. Later, Salie moves to France and she is gradually rejected by her family, except for her brother Madické who constantly seeks to come to France to play football professionally. Salie is quickly overwhelmed by the lack of identity caused by her immigration. She's stuck between Europe and Africa, where she can't call home. From this disconnection, the narrator suffers and Salie's identity gradually becomes that of exile. How, then, does the novel illustrate the degrading identity of the narrator trapped between two worlds? The narrator depicts her degrading identity through her cultural detachment from Europe and Africa. The novel does not only tell the story through the exile she suffered. Sometimes, the narrator's nocturnal writing offers the reader her inner thoughts, but it also shows her desire to confide about her exile through nostalgia and lyricism. An analysis of several passages - concerning writing and geography...... middle of paper ......racy and writing, helps him initially to acquire a certain level of identification of base where she feels comfortable expressing herself with pen and paper. . However, such interactions limit the extent to which she can truly have her own identity, particularly on a cultural and familial level. In fact, Salie is stuck between her imaginary world of writing and the world in which she suffers from alienation. As the story ensues, Salie gradually loses control of her past, which is depicted when she nostalgically remembers the songs she heard and sang during her childhood. Because this novel reflects Diome's life, we can expand on the fact that Diome had a difficult childhood. where she was largely an outsider, but where her self-education and determination helped her move toward success and ultimately write her first novel: The Belly of the Atlantic..

Essay / Fatou Diome's novel "The Belly of the Atlantic" Fatou Diome's novel, Le Ventre de l'Atlantique, tells the story of the coming of age of a young Senegalese woman living in Strasbourg after emigrating from the island of Niodior. A reflection of the author's own life, the fictionalized story recounts Salie's experiences. After growing up in a community in which strict traditions required women to submit to men, Salie decided at a young age that she would educate herself even though she was not enrolled in school. The teacher Ndétare quickly discovers her academic and motivational abilities and decides to guide her in her schooling. Later, Salie moves to France and she is gradually rejected by her family, except for her brother Madické who constantly seeks to come to France to play football professionally. Salie is quickly overwhelmed by the lack of identity caused by her immigration. She's stuck between Europe and Africa, where she can't call home. From this disconnection, the narrator suffers and Salie's identity gradually becomes that of exile. How, then, does the novel illustrate the degrading identity of the narrator trapped between two worlds? The narrator depicts her degrading identity through her cultural detachment from Europe and Africa. The novel does not only tell the story through the exile she suffered. Sometimes, the narrator's nocturnal writing offers the reader her inner thoughts, but it also shows her desire to confide about her exile through nostalgia and lyricism. An analysis of several passages - concerning writing and geography...... middle of paper ......racy and writing, helps him initially to acquire a certain level of identification of base where she feels comfortable expressing herself with pen and paper. . However, such interactions limit the extent to which she can truly have her own identity, particularly on a cultural and familial level. In fact, Salie is stuck between her imaginary world of writing and the world in which she suffers from alienation. As the story ensues, Salie gradually loses control of her past, which is depicted when she nostalgically remembers the songs she heard and sang during her childhood. Because this novel reflects Diome's life, we can expand on the fact that Diome had a difficult childhood. where she was largely an outsider, but where her self-education and determination helped her move toward success and ultimately write her first novel: The Belly of the Atlantic..

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