02750nam 2200613 450 991078645850332120200520144314.0978-36037-5-2(CKB)3710000000112089(EBL)1690595(SSID)ssj0001327456(PQKBManifestationID)11831704(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001327456(PQKBWorkID)11267663(PQKB)11765889(MiAaPQ)EBC1690595(Au-PeEL)EBL1690595(CaPaEBR)ebr10870444(CaONFJC)MIL664267(OCoLC)879948733(PPN)187343497(EXLCZ)99371000000011208920140523h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGender issues in African literature /Smith and Ce, editorsOxford, [England] :African Library of Critical Writing,2014.©[2014]1 online resource (202 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-32985-0 978-37085-4-6 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Resisting Normative Definitions; Chapter 2 - Gender Conflict in African Literature; Chapter 3 - Gender and African Modernity; Chapter 4 - Female Writers on War; Chapter 5 - Male Authority, Female Alterity; Chapter 6 - Feminist (Re-)Writing; Chapter 7 - Twice-Betrayed People; Chapter 8 - Seven Nigerian Authors; Notes and Bibliography; Back coverGender Issues in African Literature examines the ways in which some protagonists of African fictions are made to counter and challenge intertwined Western discourses on gender, employment, sexuality, and health. Here the conflict between Tradition and Modernity is argues from the favourite premise of male supremacist ideology showing how women have ëunlearnedí these false concepts to build a sustained feminist movement and (re)learn the value of sisterhood. There is a bold attempt to reread Achebe as a consistent in urging women to fight the seemingly oppressive structures that have traditionaAfrican literatureSlave trade in literatureSlavery in literatureAfrican literature.Slave trade in literature.Slavery in literature.808.8004SmithC. EMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786458503321Gender issues in African literature3852807UNINA