Letters in the field of literature : a study of Mariama Ba’s epistolary novel; “so long a letter”

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Letters and letter writing has given rise to several studies that examine the cultural reasons of exchanging letters for ages.

Thus, the paper gives an overview to some scholarships on epistolary discourse in early modern culture.

The main traditional area of study, deals with the idea of writing letters as epistolary novels in the field of literature .

Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter is chosen a field tof the study.

Moreover, the paper focuses on the reasons behind writing epistolary novels as a form that has given rise to many different genres across the centuries.