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Author : Charlotte H. Bruner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:83372374
Author : Charlotte H. Bruner
Publisher : Heinemann International Incorporated
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015033144935
A contemporary selection of 22 African women's shortstories that vividly portray the everyday concerns of women's lives. The stories, divided into sections from north, south, east and west, cover such themes as the exploitation of serving girls, the experience of women behind veils, enduring friendships, the achievement of social power, independence of thought, and the affirmation of personal identity. These are new writers recording the new Africa with a fresh perspective. Authors whose stories are included in this landmark collection are: Northern Africa -- Nawal El Saadawi Assia Djebar Gisele Halimi Leila Sebbar Andree Chedid Southern Africa -- Tsitsi Dangarembga Bessie Head Jean Marquard Zoe Wicomb Sheila Fugard Farida Karodia Eastern Africa -- Evelyn Awuor Ayodo Violet Dias Lannoy Daisy Kabaragama Lina Magaia Western Africa -- Catherine Obianuju Acholonu Ifeoma Okoye Zaynab Alkali Orlanda Amarilis Aminata Maiga Ka
Author : Stella Chipasula,Frank Mkalawile Chipasula
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : African literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106016435734
This first major anthology of African women's poetry offers an extensive selection of poetry by women all over the African continent.
Author : Lillian S. Robinson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253116015
"... a refreshing, thoughtful, critical map of this otherwise difficult battleground." -- Yale Review of Books "The essays... provide a powerful response to current conservative attacks on women's studies, feminist scholarship, and academic inquiry that foregrounds race, gender, and class." -- The Minnesota Review In the Canon's Mouth brings together two decades of writing by Lillian Robinson -- one of the pioneers of the "culture wars." Curriculum reform, changing the canon, multiculturalism, feminism, and political correctness: these issues have multiple labels, bestowed on different sides of a debate that began in the academy but that has become a matter of civic interest. Most of the well known books on these issues -- including bestsellers by Alan Bloom and Dinesh d'Souza -- come from the far right. They claim that feminists and cultural critics such as Lillian Robinson have taken over our universities. Robinson counters that the right is so frightened at losing its strangle-hold on the culture that it misrepresents a foothold as hegemony.
Author : Stella Chipasula
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:716394552
Author : Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253211492
"This is a cogent analysis of the complexities of gender in the work of nine contemporary Anglophone and Francophone novelists. . . . offers illuminating interpretations of worthy writers . . . " —Multicultural Review "This book reaffirms Bessie Head's remark that books are a tool, in this case a tool that allows readers to understand better the rich lives and the condition of African women. Excellent notes and a rich bibliography." —Choice ". . . a college-level analysis which will appeal to any interested in African studies and literature." —The Bookwatch This book applies gender as a category of analysis to the works of nine sub-Saharan women writers: Aidoo, Bá, Beyala, Dangarembga, Emecheta, Head, Liking, Tlali, and Zanga Tsogo. The author appropriates western feminist theories of gender in an African literary context, and in the process, she finds and names critical theory that is African, indigenous, self-determining, which she then melds with western feminist theory and comes out with an over-arching theory that enriches western, post-colonial and African critical perspectives.
Author : Yvonne Vera
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0435910108
In this anthology the award-winning author Yvonne Vera brings together the stories of many talented writers from different parts of Africa.
Author : Adewale Maja-Pearce
Publisher : Heinemann International Incorporated
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:39015021862910
This anthology represents some of the best African poetry written in English in the last 30 years. The poets include Wole Soyinka, Dennis Brutus, Kojo Laing, Chenjerai Hove and Gabriel Gbadamosi.
Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015061326016
African women writers have come a long way from the 1960s when they were hardly noticed as serious writers. Since the 1960s, female writing in Africa has been steadily rising in quantity and quality. This work shows how their literature is redefining images of womanhood.
Author : Stephanie Newell
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786990075
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.
Author : Chinua Achebe,Catherine Lynette Innes
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
ISBN : 043590566X
A collection of 20 stories written between 1980-1991 which deal with themes relevant to various regions of Africa.
Author : Gina Wisker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780333985243
This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing. It provides a valuable gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the U.S.A., India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and introduces emergent writers from South East Asia, Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context, economic, political, and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience, it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity, motherhood, mothertongue, language, relationships, women's economic constraints and sexual politics.
Author : Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez,Pauline Dongala,Omotayo Jolaosho,Anne Serafin
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780299236632
African Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women’s strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal narratives, testimony, interviews, short stories, poetry, performance scripts, folktales, and lyrics. Thematically organized, it presents women’s writing on such issues as intertribal and interethnic conflicts, the degradation of the environment, polygamy, domestic abuse, the controversial traditional practice of female genital cutting, Sharia law, intergenerational tensions, and emigration and exile. Contributors include internationally recognized authors and activists such as Wangari Maathai and Nawal El Saadawi, as well as a host of vibrant new voices from all over the African continent and from the African diaspora. Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection provides an excellent introduction to contemporary African women’s literature and highlights social issues that are particular to Africa but are also of worldwide concern. It is an essential reference for students of African studies, world literature, anthropology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and women’s studies. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book Outstanding Book, selected by the Public Library Association Best Books for High Schools, Best Books for Special Interests, and Best Books for Professional Use, selected by the American Association of School Libraries
Author : Amandina Lihamba
Publisher : Feminist Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015070697027
Third installment of major literary and scholarly project exposes East African women's history and culture.
Author : Adeola James
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : African literature (English)
ISBN : UOM:39015018502958
Adeola James interviews fifteen African women writers, including new voices alongside the well-known; she asks them about outside influences and local traditions, about women's issues and the language question. The answers are often frank and to the point. The interviews are illustrated with photos of the authors.
