The Hail-Mary Pass of the Wretched of Emigration in Fatou Diome’s <i>The Belly of the Atlantic</i>

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The Hail-Mary Pass of the Wretched of Emigration in Fatou Diome’s The Belly of the Atlantic

Abib Sene

Published in International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 6, Issue 1)

Received: 16 January 2018 Accepted: 3 February 2018 Published: 10 April 2018

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Abstract

Mankind who has been looking forward finding back his Lost Paradise, has defined his life into an endless quest. A quest which has given ground to a topic of reflection among many African writers such as Fatou Diome, who in The Belly of the Atlantic, brings on surface the different aspects of African emigration in European countries. Thus, in this article, we drive, on the one hand, at exposing the misleading and impaired hope that attracts and motivates African young people to run away from their “miserable lives” to cross the Mediterranean and Atlantic oceans and, on the other hand, at highlighting the local solutions that do exist to stop such a social and topical phenomenon.

Published in	International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 6, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijla.20180601.12
Page(s)	7-13
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Poverty, Migration, Starvation, Hope, Disillusion

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Department of Anglophone Studies, Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal

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Abib Sene. The Hail-Mary Pass of the Wretched of Emigration in Fatou Diome’s The Belly of the Atlantic. Int J Lit Arts. 2018;6(1):7-13. doi: 10.11648/j.ijla.20180601.12

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