the art of cooking your husband: Emancipation in footsteps Calixthe Beyala

In Africa, and more specifically in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a revolution is overturning the codes of love. Men no longer look at women, they look at their bank accounts. The marriageable woman is no longer the one who masters the pot, but the one who masters the numbers. Between these two figures, Alfredius Mercurii, in Comment cuire son mari under the footsteps of Calixthe Beyala, speaks of the blurred boundary between power, pleasure and survival. Through Beyala's heroines, Aïssatou, who transforms her cooking into a weapon of seduction, and Andela, who turns her pen into a tool of liberation, he examines the new female strategies of emancipation.you'll discover how cooking becomes an instrument of power and desire, why the body remains the battleground of the feminine, how women redefine love, marriage and success, and the pitfalls of the "successful" woman to carve out paths to real freedom. This book is a blend of literary analysis and social criticism, for those who refuse to choose between being edible or marriageable.

Pagina's: 152, Paperback, Our Knowledge Publishing