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African women writers and the politics of gender / by Sadia Zulfiqar.
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Zulfiqar, Sadia
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English
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Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
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vii, 223 pages ; 22 cm
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PN849.A35 Z86 2016
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Subject(s)
African fiction
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Women authors
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History and criticism
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Women and literature
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Africa
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Feminist fiction
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History and criticism
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Bâ, Mariama
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Criticism and interpretation
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Aboulela, Leila 1964-
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Criticism and interpretation
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Emecheta, Buchi
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Criticism and interpretation
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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 1977-
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Criticism and interpretation
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Dangarembga, Tsitsi
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Criticism and interpretation
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Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-223).
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.
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ISBN
1443897477 ((hardcover))
9781443897471 ((hardcover))
OCLC
954226252
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