Women Writing Africa
Title | Women Writing Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Esi Sutherland-Addy |
Publisher | Feminist Press |
Total Pages | 477 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781558615007 |
A major literary and scholarly work that transforms perceptions of West African women's history and culture.
Women Writing Africa
Title | Women Writing Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Amandina Lihamba |
Publisher | Feminist Press |
Total Pages | 512 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Third installment of major literary and scholarly project exposes East African women's history and culture.
Gender in African Women's Writing
Title | Gender in African Women's Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 210 |
Release | 1997-12-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780253211491 |
"This is a cogent analysis of the complexities of gender in the work of nine contemporary Anglophone and Francophone novelists. . . . offers illuminating interpretations of worthy writers . . . " —Multicultural Review "This book reaffirms Bessie Head's remark that books are a tool, in this case a tool that allows readers to understand better the rich lives and the condition of African women. Excellent notes and a rich bibliography." —Choice ". . . a college-level analysis which will appeal to any interested in African studies and literature." —The Bookwatch This book applies gender as a category of analysis to the works of nine sub-Saharan women writers: Aidoo, Bá, Beyala, Dangarembga, Emecheta, Head, Liking, Tlali, and Zanga Tsogo. The author appropriates western feminist theories of gender in an African literary context, and in the process, she finds and names critical theory that is African, indigenous, self-determining, which she then melds with western feminist theory and comes out with an over-arching theory that enriches western, post-colonial and African critical perspectives.
The Heinemann Book of African Women's Writing
Title | The Heinemann Book of African Women's Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte H. Bruner |
Publisher | Heinemann International Incorporated |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Education |
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A contemporary selection of 22 African women's shortstories that vividly portray the everyday concerns of women's lives. The stories, divided into sections from north, south, east and west, cover such themes as the exploitation of serving girls, the experience of women behind veils, enduring friendships, the achievement of social power, independence of thought, and the affirmation of personal identity. These are new writers recording the new Africa with a fresh perspective. Authors whose stories are included in this landmark collection are: Northern Africa -- Nawal El Saadawi Assia Djebar Gisele Halimi Leila Sebbar Andree Chedid Southern Africa -- Tsitsi Dangarembga Bessie Head Jean Marquard Zoe Wicomb Sheila Fugard Farida Karodia Eastern Africa -- Evelyn Awuor Ayodo Violet Dias Lannoy Daisy Kabaragama Lina Magaia Western Africa -- Catherine Obianuju Acholonu Ifeoma Okoye Zaynab Alkali Orlanda Amarilis Aminata Maiga Ka
African Women Writing Resistance
Title | African Women Writing Resistance PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 2010-08-19 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0299236633 |
African Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women’s strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal narratives, testimony, interviews, short stories, poetry, performance scripts, folktales, and lyrics. Thematically organized, it presents women’s writing on such issues as intertribal and interethnic conflicts, the degradation of the environment, polygamy, domestic abuse, the controversial traditional practice of female genital cutting, Sharia law, intergenerational tensions, and emigration and exile. Contributors include internationally recognized authors and activists such as Wangari Maathai and Nawal El Saadawi, as well as a host of vibrant new voices from all over the African continent and from the African diaspora. Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection provides an excellent introduction to contemporary African women’s literature and highlights social issues that are particular to Africa but are also of worldwide concern. It is an essential reference for students of African studies, world literature, anthropology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and women’s studies. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book Outstanding Book, selected by the Public Library Association Best Books for High Schools, Best Books for Special Interests, and Best Books for Professional Use, selected by the American Association of School Libraries
Black Women, Writing and Identity
Title | Black Women, Writing and Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Carole Boyce-Davies |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 193 |
Release | 2002-09-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134855230 |
Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around. The book explores a complex and fascinating set of interrelated issues, establishing the significance of such wide-ranging subjects as: * re-mapping, re-naming and cultural crossings * tourist ideologies and playful world travelling * gender, heritage and identity * African women's writing and resistance to domination * marginality, effacement and decentering * gender, language and the politics of location Carole Boyce-Davies is at the forefront of attempts to broaden the discourse surrounding the representation of and by black women and women of colour. Black Women Writing and Identity represents an extraordinary achievement in this field, taking our understanding of identity, location and representation to new levels.
Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing
Title | Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Gina Wisker |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 376 |
Release | 2017-03-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0333985249 |
This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing. It provides a valuable gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the U.S.A., India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and introduces emergent writers from South East Asia, Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context, economic, political, and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience, it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity, motherhood, mothertongue, language, relationships, women's economic constraints and sexual politics.