Research Catalog

Title

Twelve best books by African women : critical readings / edited by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and Tuzyline Jita Allan.

Publication

Athens : Ohio University Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Allan, Tuzyline Jita.
• Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo.

Description

ix, 278 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Ohio University research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 88

Uniform Title

Research in international studies. Africa series no. 88.

Subject

• Africa > In literature
• African fiction > History and criticism
• Women and literature > Africa > History > 20th century
• Women in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prolepsis. Twelve telling tales by African women / Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi -- pt. 1. Reconfiguration : rewriting the script -- 1. Modernity, gender, and agency in Ama Ata Aidoo's 'Anowa' / Nana Wilson-Tagoe -- 2. Charting the nation/charting history : the power of language in Assia Djebar's 'Fantasia: an Algerian cavalcade' / Nada Halloway -- pt. 2. Waves of resistance : the casualties of difference -- 3. Nawal El Saadawi's 'Woman at point zero' within the context of Arab feminist discourse / Amira Nowaira -- 4. Nadine Gordimer's 'Burger's daughter' : consciousness, identity, and autonomy / Nobantu L. Rasebotsa -- 5. Dreams of (dis)order : competing visions of colonial Nigeria in Buchi Emecheta's 'The joys of motherhood' / Tuzyline Jita Allan -- 6. In the pauses of the historian's narrative : Yvonne Vera's 'Butterfly burning' / V.M. (Sisi) Maqagi -- pt. 3. Regeneration : labor pains and tentative steps toward independence -- 7. Mapping a female mind : Bessie Head's 'A question of power' and the unscrambling of Africa / Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi -- 8. A drama of power : Aminata Sow Fall's 'The beggars' strike' / Chioma Opara -- 9. Aesthetics, ethics, desire, and necessity in Mariama Bâ's 'So long a letter' / Modupe Olaogun -- 10. Reading masculinities in a feminist text : Tsitsi Dangarembga's 'Nervous conditions' / Helen Nabasuta Mugambi -- 11. Sindiwe Magona : writing, remembering, selfhood, and community in 'Living, loving, and lying awake at night' / M.J. Daymond -- 12. Every choice is a renunciation : cultural landmarks in Ken Bugul's 'Riwan ou le chemin de sable' / Aissata Sidikou -- Coda. African women's writing, prospectively / Tuzyline Jita Allan.

ISBN

• 9780896802667 (pb : alk. paper)
• 0896802663 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009014870

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library