- Al-Shaykh Bin Aḥmadū (?, Mauritania) – Awda al-Zirāf (‘Return of the giraffe’, 2008) focusses on urbanisation and life in Mauritanian slums.
- Walad ʿAbd al-Qādir (1941-, Mauritanian) – al-Qabr al-Majhūl (‘The unknown grave’, 1984). This novel centres the historical conflict between two tribes, the Zawiyas (Islamic mystical lodges), and the love story between Maymūnah and her cousin Salāmī, of whom she becomes illegally pregnant. In his absence, she is forced to bury the fetus by herself. The novel symbolically evokes pre-twentieth-century life as a representation of a society made up of ‘cliques’, and the social structure of the capital Nouakchott in 1980s Mauritania. In doing so, it calls for coexistence and knowledge (reference) (also in S: Social Issues and Societal Change: Tribes and Ethnicity).
Refrences:
- Abd al-Qader, Ahmad Ben (1941–). “Biographical Encyclopaedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa.” www.encyclopedia.com, https://www.encyclopedia.com/international/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/abd-al-qader-ahmad-ben-1941 (last accessed 17 March 2021)