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Autore |
Newell Stephanie |
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Titolo |
Writing African women : gender, popular culture, and literature in West Africa / / edited by Stephanie Newell ; with a new foreword by Wendy Griswold |
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London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2017 |
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[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021 |
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1-350-22414-6 |
1-78699-010-5 |
1-78699-007-5 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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West African literature (English) - History and criticism |
Women and literature - Africa, West - History |
Popular culture - Africa, West |
Authorship - Sex differences |
Cultural studies |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Bà‚ 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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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An enlivening exploration of the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender in African literature. |
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