New women's writing in African literature : a review /
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
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford : Trenton, NJ :
James Currey ; Africa World Press,
2004
Oxford : James Currey, 2004 Oxford : Trenton, N.J. : 2004 |
| Series: | African literature today ;
24 African literature today 24 African literature today no. 24 |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a New women's writing in African literature : |b a review / |c editor, Ernest N. Emenyonu ; assistant editor, Patricia T. Emenyonu ; associate editors, Simon Gikandi ... [et al.] |
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| 490 | 1 | |a African literature today ; |v 24 | |
| 500 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 500 | |a Includes index | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 504 | |a Includes index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Season of desert flowers : contemporary women's poetry from Northern Nigeria -- Eagles in the age of unacknowledged muse : two major writers in contemporary Nigerian literature, Akachi Ezeigbo & Promise Okekwe -- To trans-emote a cosmos : Yvonne Ver'as holistic feminist vision in Buttelfly Burning -- Representations of the womanist discourse in the short fiction of Akachi Ezigbo & Chinwe Okechukwu -- Calixthe Beyala rebels against female oppression -- Ken Bugul's Le Boabab fou : a female story about a female body -- From liminality to centrality : Kekelwa Nyanya's Hearthstones -- a case in point -- 'Submit or kill yourself ... your two choices' : options for wives in African women's fiction -- Exile & identity in Buchi Emecheta's The New Tribe -- A failed sexual rebellion : the case of Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa -- 'To write beyond the fact' : fictional revision of Southern African women in history by Yvonne Vera & Lauretta Ngcoco -- Usurpation & the umbilical victim in Zulu Sofola's King Emene -- Rage in the cage of a page : commitment of Southern African protest poetry by women | |
| 520 | 8 | |a 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 | |
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