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Juju fission : women's alternative fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the oases in-between / Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi.
- Title
- Juju fission : women's alternative fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the oases in-between / Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi.
- Author
- Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo
- Publication
- New York : Peter Lang, c2007.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 317 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Women, especially leaders, holding tete-a-tetes with men to address political impasses have been recognized as shrewd, double headed, or witchlike - distinctions that link them with Juju or extraordinary, survivalist powers. Juju Fission: Women's Alternative Fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the Oases In-Between is a theoretical and analytical book on African women writers that focuses on seven representative novels from different parts of Africa: Bessie Head's Maru (South Africa/Botswana); Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero (Egypt); Ama Ata Aidoo's Out Sister Killjoy; or Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint and Changes (Ghana); Assia Djebar's A Sister to Scheherazade (Algeria); Calixthe Beyala's The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me (Cameroon); and Yvonne Vera's Nehanda (Zimbabwe). In her analysis, Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi demonstrates how women are viewed and how they operate in critical times. Ogunyemi explains how the heritage is passed on, in spite of dire situations emanating from colonialism, postcolonialism, ethnicism, sexism, and grinding poverty. An important contribution to many fields, Juju Fission is excellent background material for courses on African studies, women's studies, African Diaspora studies, black studies, global studies, and general literature studies."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Society and politics in Africa, 1083-3323 ; v. 18
- Uniform Title
- Society and politics in Africa v. 18.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-312) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Serendipitous discoveries: the subaltern speaks, African women's writing; -- Voicing from Zimbabwe to Algeria: the office and science of juju -- The state of the African union address: a juju ambiance, the tete-a-tete, and the mimetic -- What the fairy godmother said to the prince: Bessie Head's Maru -- Rumble from the womb of the prison: Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero -- The mouth unbound: a thousand and one African days and nights: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our sister killjoy or Reflections from a black-eyed squint and Changes -- Talking sister, silenced subaltern: Assia Djebar's A sister to Scheherazade -- "Lunatic writing"; the speaking space between the present and the future: Calixthe Beyala's The sun hath looked upon me -- Echoes of a recent past: Yvonne Vera's Nehanda.
- ISBN
- 9781433100895 (cb : alk. paper)
- 1433100894 (cb : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007020740
- OCLC
- 132585078
- SCSB-12331821
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library