Juju Fission

Author : Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1433100894

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Juju Fission by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi Pdf

Women, especially leaders, holding tête-à-têtes 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 Our 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.

Author : Kathleen Sheldon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442262935

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Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa by Kathleen Sheldon Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on individual African women in history, politics, religion, and the arts; on important events, organizations, and publications.

Author : Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107038356

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Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions by Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor Pdf

Covering a range of texts from prominent feminist writers, this book examines notions of utopia in twenty-first-century speculative literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004361409

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Literary Location and Dislocation of Myth in the Post/Colonial Anglophone World by Anonim Pdf

The essays collected in Literary Location and Dislocation of Myth in the Colonial and Post/Colonial Anglophone World examine how narratives have conveyed the diverse experiences of territorial belonging and alienation in postcolonial communities by rewriting traditional myths or creating new ones.

Author : Thao Chu,Ngan Vu
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532688232

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Womanist Dictionary by Thao Chu,Ngan Vu Pdf

The linguistic aspect of Womanism offers learners values as any other social language. While most French learners get a glimpse into the history of Napoleon and many Chinese speakers are familiar with an Asian lifestyle, English non-native speakers like us need to understand the language in a broader scope. Since English is our shared method of communication, we have to adapt to not just one culture, but also variants in accents or vocabularies from multiple English-speaking countries. Similarly, Womanism serves the same purpose among the black community. By speaking Womanism, they are able to understand and embrace each other's values and virtues, while making their history known to the rest of the world.

Author : Chikwene Okonjo Ogunyemi,Tuzyline Jita Allan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132441622

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The Twelve Best Books by African Women by Chikwene Okonjo Ogunyemi,Tuzyline Jita Allan Pdf

The Twelve Best Books by African Women is a collection of critical essays on eleven works of fiction and one play, an important but belated affirmation of women writers on the continent and a first step toward establishing a recognized canon of African women's literature.

Author : Helen Nabasuta Mugambi,Tuzyline Jita Allan
Publisher : Ayebia Clarke Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39076002879240

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Masculinities in African Literary and Cultural Texts by Helen Nabasuta Mugambi,Tuzyline Jita Allan Pdf

An invaluable contribution to the emerging body of African masculinity studies, drawing on the epic, folk tales, proverbs and song genres. The book explores the pervasive influence of orality on patterns of thought, as well as underlying notions of masculinity in African societies through the work of writers such as Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ahmadou Kourouma, Nuruddin Farah and Nawal El Saadawi.

Author : Lee West
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781463445676

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Fission Factor by Lee West Pdf

Private Detective Leon Strong sits in his office, nursing a hangover from the night previous. Top of the desk and under his boots lies a copy of the Diamond City Forum, the prima fascia type ink all about said previous night's explosion over at Pillar Electric, Diamond City's megadont power plant. There's a body...blown to bits...no ID as of yet... The Forum screams terrorism. Along with a plea for old west justice. The phone rings. It's a guy by the name of Purly Breed, a longtime employee of Pillar. Purly's at police headquarters, downtown, locked in a holding cell, and about half an inch away from a boat ride to Guantanamo. But in the middle of the call, Purly's attacked. Amidst a scuffle comes the boom of a police model .38... And the phone goes dead... Brace yorself for a wild ride, as what at first appears to be terrorism may actually be a plot to mask a murder. When the smoke clears, Strong uncovers an unexpected dynasty wrapped up in a dirt scam - a real-estate swindle - that's got every mugwump in town tipping like dominoes, then pushing up daisies. But what's poised and ready to drop is something that'll shake your faith in all things holy. The final domino, the Fission Factor....

Author : Andrew Apter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226023427

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Black Critics and Kings by Andrew Apter Pdf

How can we account for the power of ritual? This is the guiding question of Black Critics and Kings, which examines how Yoruba forms of ritual and knowledge shape politics, history, and resistance against the state. Focusing on "deep" knowledge in Yoruba cosmology as an interpretive space for configuring difference, Andrew Apter analyzes ritual empowerment as an essentially critical practice, one that revises authoritative discourses of space, time, gender, and sovereignty to promote political—-and even violent—-change. Documenting the development of a Yoruba kingdom from its nineteenth-century genesis to Nigeria's 1983 elections and subsequent military coup, Apter identifies the central role of ritual in reconfiguring power relations both internally and in relation to wider political arenas. What emerges is an ethnography of an interpretive vision that has broadened the horizons of local knowledge to embrace Christianity, colonialism, class formation, and the contemporary Nigerian state. In this capacity, Yoruba òrìsà worship remains a critical site of response to hegemonic interventions. With sustained theoretical argument and empirical rigor, Apter answers critical anthropologists who interrogate the possibility of ethnography. He reveals how an indigenous hermeneutics of power is put into ritual practice—-with multiple voices, self-reflexive awareness, and concrete political results. Black Critics and Kings eloquently illustrates the ethnographic value of listening to the voice of the other, with implications extending beyond anthropology to engage leading debates in black critical theory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UCBK:C098759700

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New Books on Women, Gender and Feminism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kimberlee Auerbach
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Tarot
ISBN : 0525950214

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The Devil, the Lovers, & Me by Kimberlee Auerbach Pdf

The author describes her survival of an abusive relationship, her mother's mid-life sexual proclivities, and the interference of friends and her father during a promising new romance, challenges that prompted her visit to an atypical tarot card reader.

Author : G. I. Jones
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 3825847772

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The Trading States of the Oil Rivers by G. I. Jones Pdf

This vivid account of the rise of the remarkable slave and palm oil trading states in the Niger delta in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries also analyses the relation of political development to economic change. The author's field studies among the Ijo, Ibibio, and Ibo peoples have made possible an analysis of the essential processes of economic and political transformation which lay behind the oral traditions. There are also detailed and often lively accounts of the European traders. The study concentrates on the two principal Oil Rivers states which nineteenth century writers called New Calabar and Grand Bonny. For purposes of comparison the adjacent states of Brass (Nem?) and Okrika, the Andoni peoples and the Efik state known to Europeans as Old Calabar are also examined. The study ends in 1884, the year that marks the beginning of the Brithsh Protectorate government and with it the end of indigenous systems of government which characterised these Oil River States during the nineteenth century. The monarchies established in the eighteenth century by King Pepple of Bonny and King Armakiri of Kalabari and the political and economic organisations developed under their rule were coming to, or had already come to, an end, with new oligarchies developing in their place.

Author : Michelle Kazensky
Publisher : Saint James Press
Page : 1286 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 155862600X

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The Writers Directory 2008 by Michelle Kazensky Pdf

Features bibliographical, biographical and contact information for living authors worldwide who have at least one English publication. Entries include name, pseudonyms, addresses, citizenship, birth date, specialization, career information and a bibliography.

Author : Naminata Diabate
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478007579

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Naked Agency by Naminata Diabate Pdf

Across Africa, mature women have for decades mobilized the power of their nakedness in political protest to shame and punish male adversaries. This insurrectionary nakedness, often called genital cursing, owes its cultural potency to the religious belief that spirits residing in women's bodies can be unleashed to cause misfortune in their targets, including impotence, disease, and death. In Naked Agency, Naminata Diabate analyzes these collective female naked protests in Africa and beyond to broaden understandings of agency and vulnerability. Drawing on myriad cultural texts from social media and film to journalism and fiction, Diabate uncovers how women create spaces of resistance during socio-political duress, including such events as the 2011 protests by Ivoirian women in Côte d’Ivoire and Paris as well as women's disrobing in Soweto to prevent the destruction of their homes. Through the concept of naked agency, Diabate explores fluctuating narratives of power and victimhood to challenge simplistic accounts of African women's helplessness and to show how they exercise political power in the biopolitical era.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2426 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000057121345

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Anonim Pdf