Format:
1 Online-Ressource (217 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350224148
Series Statement:
African Culture Archive
Content:
Cover ; About the Author ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Foreword by Wendy Griswold.
Content:
Introduction: Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa Stephanie Newell Part I: Theory and Politics ; 1: Reading Towards a Theorization of African Women's Writing: African Women Writers within Feminist Gynocriticism; 2: Masculinity: The Military, Women and Cultural Politics in Nigeria ; 3: Women's Role in Ghana's Social Development ; Part II: Literatures ; 4: A Life on the Women's Page: Treena Kwenta's Diary ; 5: Recovering Lost Voices: The Short Stories of Mabel Dove-Danquah.
Content:
6: Rewriting Popular Myths of Female Subordination: Selected Stories by Theodora Adimora-Ezeigbo and May Ifeoma Nwoye 7: Gender Conflict in Flora Nwapa's Novels ; 8: Culture and Gender Semantics in Flora Nwapa's Poetry ; 9: Behind the Veil in Northern Nigeria: The Writing of Zaynab Alkali and Hauwa Ali ; 10: The Onus of Womanhood: Mariama Bâ and Zaynab Alkali ; 11: Narrative Technique and the Politics of Gender: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy and No Sweetness Here ; Part III: Popular Culture ; 12: Hausa Women as Oral Storytellers in Northern Nigeria.
Content:
13: Gender Politics in West African Mask Performance 14: Anatomy of Masculine Power: Three Perspectives on Marriage and Gender in Nigerian Non-fiction ; 15: Gender Tempered Through Metal: Women in Metal-Casting in Benin City, Nigeria ; Index.
Content:
An enlivening exploration of the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender in African literature
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781856494496
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786990075
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1786990075
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786990082
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1786990083
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786990099
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1786990091
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1786990105
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786990105
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786990693
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786990693
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Newell, Stephanie Writing African Women : Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa London : Zed Books, ©2017 ISBN 9781786990693
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350224148
