Writing African Women
Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa. With a Foreword by Wendy Griswold
(Sprache: Englisch)
An enlivening exploration of the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender in African literature.
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An enlivening exploration of the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender in African literature.
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Writing African Women “
Part I: Theory and Politics1. Reading Towards a Theorization of African Women's Writing: African Women Writers Within Feminist Gynocriticism - Nana Wilson-Tagoe2. Masculinity: The Military, Women and Cultural Politics in Nigeria - Bayo Ogunjimi3. Women's Role in Ghana's Social Development: a Short Statement - Akosua Gyamfuaa-FofiePart II:: Literatures4. A Life on the women's Page: Treena Kwenta's Diary - Jane Bryce5. Recovering Lost Voices: The Short Stories of Mabel - Dove-Danquah and Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang6. Rewriting Popular Myths of Female Subordination: Selected Stories by Theodor Ezeigbo and May Ifeoma Nwoye - Chinyere Okafor7. Gender Conflict in Flora Nwapa's Novels - Theodora Akachi Ezeigbo8. Culture and Gender Semantics in Flora Nwapa's Poetry - Obododimma Oha9. Behind the Veil in Northern Nigeria: The Writing of Zaynab Alkali and Hauwa Ali - Margaret Hauwa Kassam10. The Onus of Womanhood: Mariama B and Zaynab Alkali - Ibiyemi Mojola11. Narrative Technique and the Politics of Gender: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy and No Sweetness Here - Chioma Opara Part III: Popular Culture12. Hausa Women as Oral Storytellers in Nigeria - Sani Abba Aliyu13. Gender Politics in West African Mask Performance - Chinyere Grace Okafor14. Anatomy of Masculine Power: Three Perspectives on Marriage and Gender in Nigerian Non-Fiction - Stephanie Newell15. Gender Tempered Through Metal: Women in Metal Casting in Benin City, Nigeria - Adepeju Layiwola
Bibliographische Angaben
- 224 Seiten, Maße: 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben von Newell, Stephanie
- Verlag: Zed Books
- ISBN-10: 1786990105
- ISBN-13: 9781786990105
Sprache:
Englisch
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