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African women writers and the politics of gender / by Sadia Zulfiqar.

Title
African women writers and the politics of gender / by Sadia Zulfiqar.
Author
Zulfiqar, Sadia
Publication
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

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Description
vii, 223 pages; 22 cm
Summary
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.
Subject
  • Bâ, Mariama > Criticism and interpretation
  • Aboulela, Leila, 1964- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Emecheta, Buchi > Criticism and interpretation
  • Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Dangarembga, Tsitsi > Criticism and interpretation
  • African fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
  • Women and literature > Africa
  • Feminist fiction > History and criticism
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: Saani Baat--Throwing Voice -- When a Man Loves a Woman: Betrayal and Abandon(ship) in Miriama Bâ's So Long a Letter (1980) and Scarlet Song (1981) -- "It is Immoral for a Woman to Subjugate Herself. She should be Punished": Changing Concepts of Motherhood and Marriage in the Fiction of Buchi Emecheta -- Women at War: The Nigerian Civil War in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra (1982) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) -- "I'm Not One of Them But I'm Not One of You": Colonial Education and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Women -- Do Muslim Women Need Saving Again?: Representations of Islam in Leila Aboulela's Fictions -- Conclusion: Resisting Books of Not, Writing Books of Something.
ISBN
  • 1443897477
  • 9781443897471
OCLC
  • 954226252
  • SCSB-10641795
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library