African women writers and the politics of gender [electronic resource] / by Sadia Zulfiqar.

By:

Zulfiqar, Sadia

Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016Description: 1 online resource (vii, 223 pages)ISBN:

9781443812771
1443812773

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DDC classification:

809.89287096 23

LOC classification:

PN849.A35 Z86 2016eb

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; When a Man Loves a Woman; "It is Immoral for a Woman to Subjugate Herself. She should be Punished -- Women at War; '"I'm Not One of Them But I'm Not One of You"; Do Muslim Women Need Saving Again?; Conclusion; Bibliography

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.

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
EResource	College of Eastern Idaho	Digital	None	PN 849 .A35 Z86 2016eb (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		3340400010454

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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.