03215oam 2200793I 450 991045028760332120200520144314.01-134-77438-91-280-14400-90-203-98131-610.4324/9780203981313 (CKB)1000000000006212(EBL)237427(OCoLC)475947217(SSID)ssj0000223891(PQKBManifestationID)11173388(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223891(PQKBWorkID)10183906(PQKB)11550637(MiAaPQ)EBC237427(Au-PeEL)EBL237427(CaPaEBR)ebr10017123(CaONFJC)MIL14400(OCoLC)826516613 (EXLCZ)99100000000000621220180706d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe politics of (m)othering womanhood, identity, and resistance in African literature /edited by Obioma NnaemekaLondon ;New York :Routledge,1997.1 online resource (254 p.)Opening outDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-13789-6 0-415-13790-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Series preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Mother's talk; 2 Nervous Conditions; 3 Why the Snake-Lizard killed his mother; 4 The Eye and the Other; 5 Enlightenment epistemology and "aesthetic cognition"; 6 Calixthe Beyala's "femme-fillette"; 7 Bound to matter; 8 MotherTongues and childless women; 9 Ontological victimhood; 10 Urban spaces, women's places; 11 Reconstructing motherhood; 12 Geographies of pain; Index; This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal.Opening out.Politics of motheringPolitics of otheringAfrican literatureHistory and criticismFemininity in literatureFeminism and literatureAfricaPolitics and literatureAfricaGender identity in literatureWomen and literatureAfricaMotherhood in literatureMothers in literatureElectronic books.African literatureHistory and criticism.Femininity in literature.Feminism and literaturePolitics and literatureGender identity in literature.Women and literatureMotherhood in literature.Mothers in literature.809/.8896Nnaemeka Obioma1948-889945FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910450287603321The politics of (m)othering1988367UNINA