Dramatic Monologue in the FLE Classroom: ‘Lettre d?une Africaine à ses sœurs occidentales’ by Calixthe Beyala
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25145/j.cedille.2025.27.19Keywords:
Womanism, Africa, drama, polygamy, cleavageAbstract
We consider it relevant to reflect on the power of drama applied to the teaching of French as a foreign language. Through the study of theatrical adaptations of novels by female African writers, our university students will learn about the culture of other French-speaking countries. This method of work will allow us to give a voice to those female characters who, until now, have been reduced to silence. If Calixte Beyala, in Lettre d?une Africaine à ses sœurs occidentales (1995), takes up the pen to describe the daily life of her people, we will be the spokespersons, the griots or troubadours of the stories that these women share with us, in first person, in French.
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