03675nam 2200685 450 991079294060332120210311111955.01-350-22414-61-78699-010-51-78699-007-510.5040/9781350224148(CKB)3710000001388220(MiAaPQ)EBC4866170(OCoLC)988868493(CaBNVSL)9781350224148(Au-PeEL)EBL4866170(CaPaEBR)ebr11390520(PPN)232285039(EXLCZ)99371000000138822020210311h20212017 uy 0engurcn|||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierWriting African women gender, popular culture, and literature in West Africa /edited by Stephanie Newell ; with a new foreword by Wendy Griswold2nd ed.London, England :Zed Books,2017.[London, England] :Bloomsbury Publishing,20211 online resource (217 pages)African Culture Archive1-85649-449-7 1-78699-069-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.African culture archive.West African literature (English)History and criticismWomen and literatureAfrica, WestHistoryPopular cultureAfrica, WestAuthorshipSex differencesCultural studiesbicsscWest African literature (English)History and criticism.Women and literatureHistory.Popular cultureAuthorshipSex differences.Cultural studies820.9/9287/0966Newell Stephanie662470Griswold WendyEBLCPCaBNVSLCaBNVSLBOOK9910792940603321Writing African women3729430UNINA