African women writers and the politics of gender / by Sadia Zulfiqar.

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Zulfiqar, Sadia [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Description
vii, 223 pages ; 22 cm

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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.
    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.
    ISBN
    • 1443897477 ((hardcover))
    • 9781443897471 ((hardcover))
    OCLC
    954226252
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