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Writing African Women : Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: African Culture Archive SeriesPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781786990075
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Writing African WomenDDC classification:
  • 820.9/9287/0966
LOC classification:
  • PR9340.5.W758 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Wendy Griswold -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
Summary: An enlivening exploration of the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender in African literature.
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Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Wendy Griswold -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

An enlivening exploration of the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender in African literature.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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