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Society, Women and Literature in Africa

Author : Orabueze, Florence Onyebuchi
Publisher : M & J Grand Orbit Communications
ISBN 13 : 9785412792
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Society, Women and Literature in Africa written by Orabueze, Florence Onyebuchi and published by M & J Grand Orbit Communications. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society, Women and Literature in Africa explores the ideological, literary, political, cultural and ethical issues related to feminist writing. She discusses how contemporary African writers have tried to counteract men’s false assumptions about sex, love, society, fecundity and womanhood, and further details how African writers have responded to the demands of feminism. “Woman’s Cross Cultural Burden in the selected works of West African Female writers” explores the recurrent themes of motherhood, polygamy, abandonment and widowhood in the works of Nwapa, Emecheta, Alkali, Aidoo and Mariama Bâ. In “Prostitution: A Metaphor for the Degradation of Womanhood in Bode Osanyin’s the Noble Mistress”, the author approaches the subject of woman degradation in society from the perspectives of comprehensive research and an in-depth referencing. “Gendered Social Division of Labour in the African Novel” explores the theme of unfairness, of institutionalized differentiation in the African novel. It reveals the total emasculation of woman in patriarchy and her desire to be liberated from male-annexation. “The Prison World of Nigeria Woman: Female Reticence in Sefi Attah’s “Everything Good Will Come”, the author explores the dimensions of “gender silences”. She shows how woman’s voice has been stolen in patriarchy, thus rendering her a social and political mutant. “Womanhood as a Metaphor for Sexual Slavery in Nawal El Saddawi’s Woman at Point Zero” underscores that in patriarchy a woman is educated to make an object of herself for male pleasure. She is excluded from politics as a result of religion. “The Ugly Face of Ghana in the New Millennium: Alienation of Children in Amma Darko’s Faceless” is a stylistic study of the consequences of globalization in postindependent Ghana. In “The Theme of Dispossession in A.N Akwanya’s the Pilgrim Foot”, the author examines the myriad perspectives of dispossession and the dispossessor.

Women in African Literature Today

Author : Eldred D. Jones
Publisher : James Currey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Women in African Literature Today written by Eldred D. Jones and published by James Currey. This book was released on 1987 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflects the emergence of accomplished works by African women writers. North America: Africa World Press

Writing African Women

Author : Stephanie Newell
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1786990075
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Writing African Women written by Stephanie Newell and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does our understanding of Africa shift when we begin from the perspective of women? What can the African perspective offer theories of culture and of gender difference? This work, as unique and insightful today as when it was first published, brings together a wide variety of African academics and other researchers to explore the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender. Beginning with a ground-breaking overview of African gender theory, the book goes on to analyse women's writing, uncovering the ways different writers have approached issues of female creativity and colonial history, as well as the ways in which they have subverted popular stereotypes around African women. The contributors also explore the related gender dynamics of mask performance and oral story-telling. This major analysis of gender in popular and postcolonial cultural production remains essential reading for students and academics in women's studies, cultural studies and literature.

Women, Literature and Development in Africa

Author : Anthonia C. Kalu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429650914
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Women, Literature and Development in Africa written by Anthonia C. Kalu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a powerful exploration of the role of women in the evolution of African thinking and narratives on development, from the precolonial period right through to the modern day. Whilst the book identifies women’s oppression and marginalization as significant challenges to contemporary Africa’s advancement, it also explores how new written narratives draw on traditional African knowledge systems to bring deep-rooted and sometimes radical approaches to progress. The book asserts that Africans must tell their own stories, expressed through the complex meanings and nuances of African languages and often conveyed through oral traditions and storytelling, in which women play an important role. The book’s close examination of language and meaning in the African narrative tradition advances the illumination and elevation of African storytelling as part of a viable and valid knowledge base in its own right, rather than as an extension of European paradigms and methods. Anthonia C. Kalu's new edition of this important book, fully revised throughout, will also include fresh analysis of the role of digital media, education, and religion in African narratives. At a time when the prominence and participation of African women in development and sociopolitical debates is growing, this book's exploration of their lived experiences and narrative contribution will be of interest to students of African literature, gender studies, development, history, and sociology.

Gender in African Women's Writing

Author : Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253211491
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Gender in African Women's Writing written by Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Gender Issues in African Literature

Author : Chin Ce
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9783603752
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Gender Issues in African Literature written by Chin Ce and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender Issues in African Literature examines the ways in which some protagonists of African fictions are made to counter and challenge intertwined Western discourses on gender, employment, sexuality, and health. Here the conflict between Tradition and Modernity is argues from the favourite premise of male supremacist ideology showing how women have unlearned these false concepts to build a sustained feminist movement and (re)learn the value of sisterhood. There is a bold attempt to reread Achebe as a consistent in urging women to fight the seemingly oppressive structures that have traditionally discriminated against them, and to disregard their diversity and embrace their unity. A chapter of Feminist Re-writing disagrees with the attempt to equate theory with political activism and presents Feminist literature as more than a verbal assertion that points to Feminist aesthetics and politics. The use of the trauma theory and testimonio literature to explore traumatisation of female characters and its impact for Zimbabwean civil society is a useful addition to these gender studies in African literature.

Women, Literature and Development in Africa

Author : Anthonia C. Kalu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429648278
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Women, Literature and Development in Africa written by Anthonia C. Kalu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a powerful exploration of the role of women in the evolution of African thinking and narratives on development, from the precolonial period right through to the modern day. Whilst the book identifies women’s oppression and marginalization as significant challenges to contemporary Africa’s advancement, it also explores how new written narratives draw on traditional African knowledge systems to bring deep-rooted and sometimes radical approaches to progress. The book asserts that Africans must tell their own stories, expressed through the complex meanings and nuances of African languages and often conveyed through oral traditions and storytelling, in which women play an important role. The book’s close examination of language and meaning in the African narrative tradition advances the illumination and elevation of African storytelling as part of a viable and valid knowledge base in its own right, rather than as an extension of European paradigms and methods. Anthonia C. Kalu's new edition of this important book, fully revised throughout, will also include fresh analysis of the role of digital media, education, and religion in African narratives. At a time when the prominence and participation of African women in development and sociopolitical debates is growing, this book's exploration of their lived experiences and narrative contribution will be of interest to students of African literature, gender studies, development, history, and sociology.

Ngambika

Author : Carole Boyce Davies
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Ngambika written by Carole Boyce Davies and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Women's Literature, Orature, and Intertextuality

Author : Susan Arndt
Publisher : Humboldt University of Berlin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Women's Literature, Orature, and Intertextuality written by Susan Arndt and published by Humboldt University of Berlin. This book was released on 1998 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender

Author : Sadia Zulfiqar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443812773
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender written by Sadia Zulfiqar and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the work of a group of African women writers who have emerged over the last forty years. While figures such as Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri and Wole Soyinka are likely to be the chief focus of discussions of African writing, female authors have been at the forefront of fictional interrogations of identity formation and history. In the work of authors such as Mariama Bâ (Senegal), Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria), Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), and Leila Aboulela (Sudan), there is a clear attempt to subvert the tradition of male writing where the female characters are often relegated to the margins of the culture, and confined to the domestic, private sphere. This body of work has already generated a significant number of critical responses, including readings that draw on gender politics and colonialism, but it is still very much a minor literature, and most mainstream western feminism has not sufficiently processed it. The purpose of this book is three-fold. First, it draws together some of the most important and influential African women writers of the post-war period and looks at their work, separately and together, in terms of a series of themes and issues, including marriage, family, polygamy, religion, childhood, and education. Second, it demonstrates how African literature produced by women writers is explicitly and polemically engaged with urgent political issues that have both local and global resonance: the veil, Islamophobia and a distinctively African brand of feminist critique. Third, it revisits Fredric Jameson’s claim that all third-world texts are “national allegories” and considers these novels by African women in relation to Jameson’s claim, arguing that their work has complicated Jameson’s assumptions.

Imagining Insiders

Author : Mineke Schipper
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0304704792
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Insiders written by Mineke Schipper and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges common views of how Africans and African Americans approach race, Western civilization, and their influences

Women Writers in Black Africa

Author : Lloyd W. Brown
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Women Writers in Black Africa written by Lloyd W. Brown and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1981-06-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

So Long a Letter

Author : Mariama Bâ
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478611235
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book So Long a Letter written by Mariama Bâ and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2012-05-06 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by award-winning African novelist Mariama Bâ and translated from the original French, So Long a Letter has been recognized as one of Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century. The brief narrative, written as an extended letter, is a sequence of reminiscences —some wistful, some bitter—recounted by recently widowed Senegalese schoolteacher Ramatoulaye Fall. Addressed to a lifelong friend, Aissatou, it is a record of Ramatoulaye’s emotional struggle for survival after her husband betrayed their marriage by taking a second wife. This semi-autobiographical account is a perceptive testimony to the plight of educated and articulate Muslim women. Angered by the traditions that allow polygyny, they inhabit a social milieu dominated by attitudes and values that deny them status equal to men. Ramatoulaye hopes for a world where the best of old customs and new freedom can be combined. Considered a classic of contemporary African women’s literature, So Long a Letter is a must-read for anyone interested in African literature and the passage from colonialism to modernism in a Muslim country. Winner of the prestigious Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.

Women's Voices in a Man's World

Author : Lidwien Kapteijns
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Women's Voices in a Man's World written by Lidwien Kapteijns and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1999 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By gathering Somali oral texts, sayings, and songs of the period 1899 the author has examined in what way women and gender relations in Somali society has been presented in the past and how concepts as 'tradition', authentic cultural heritage and identity affect women and gender relations nowadays.

Binding Cultures

Author : Gay Wilentz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253207142
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Binding Cultures written by Gay Wilentz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992-05-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wilentz . . . makes convincing arguments for the connections between African and Afro-American women's culture." —Nellie McKay "Wilentz's jargon-free, intelligent discussion . . . will appeal to students in African, African American, and women's literature courses, as well as general readers interested in the emerging field." —Choice "Through these works, Wilentz demonstrates the powerful transformation possible through understanding—and embracing—the past, even if that past includes oppression and brutalization." —Belles Lettres Binding Cultures investigates the cultural bonds between African and African-American women writers such as Nigerian Flora Nwapa and Ghanaians Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo, writers who focus on the role of women in passing on cultural values to future generations, and African-American writers Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Paule Marshall, who self-consciously evoke African culture to help create a more integrated African-American community.

Unheard Words

Author : Mineke Schipper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unheard Words written by Mineke Schipper and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the world women are writing creatively about their experience, through in many cases and for many reasons their literature remains a vast untapped source of unheard voices. This book provides a provocative and stimulating introduction to that increasingly vociferous achievement. The book is divided geographically into five main regions: Africa, the Arab World, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America. Each contributor looks at the literary traditions, the cultural and social background of the women writers, and the many problems they face, especially in cultures where literature in general and criticism in particular are dominated by men. Each section is prefaced by a revealing selection of proverbs and includes a major interview with one writer. The writers interviewed are Miriam Tlali (South Africa), Etel Adnan (Lebanon), Nabaneeta Deb-Sen (India), Astrid Roemer (Surinam) and Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay).

Re-creating Ourselves

Author : Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865434127
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Re-creating Ourselves written by Molara Ogundipe-Leslie and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book falls into two parts: the first part, theory, comprising theoretical essays on literature, women and society, leads into the second part, practice, which presents Ogundipe-Leslie's work as a social activist. Both parts are linked by her poetry.