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While in most African cultures and beliefs mythical characters are almost exclusively male figures, in the work of novelist and poet Jean-Marie Adiaffi (from Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa), female figures stand and act as preeminent mythical characters who attain divine and transcendent proportions at times. Female figures stand as central figures in legends, folktales, and allegories, and act as key agents in certain ritual performances, which associates them with the realm of the unknown, thus transcending the confines of human condition, stature, and faculties. This innovative vision of the female figure is explored by this book entitled Faces of Women and the Aesthetics of Myth in Jean-Marie Adiaffi's Work.

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Originally from Burkina Faso (West Africa), AMADOU OUEDRAOGO holds a PhD in African and Caribbean Francophone Studies from the University of Iowa (USA) and a doctorate in African Anglophone Studies from the University of Grenoble (France). He has a long record of higher education teaching and research including at the University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), the University of Iowa, and Williams College (Massachusetts). He is currently Professor of Francophone Studies (Sub-Saharan African Literature and Film; Caribbean Studies) at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Amadou Ouedraogo enseigne les littratures et cultures francophones d'Afrique et de la Carabe l'Universit de la Louisiane Lafayette (Etats-Unis). Il est l'auteur de cinq ouvrages sur les tudes francophones de l'Afrique et de la Carabe.

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