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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| 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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| Pubblicazione: | London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2017 |
| [London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021 | |
| Edizione: | 2nd ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/9287/0966 |
| Soggetto topico: | West African literature (English) - History and criticism |
| Women and literature - Africa, West - History | |
| Popular culture - Africa, West | |
| Authorship - Sex differences | |
| Cultural studies | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | GriswoldWendy |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | An enlivening exploration of the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender in African literature. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Writing African women |
| ISBN: | 1-350-22414-6 |
| 1-78699-010-5 | |
| 1-78699-007-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817074003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
African culture archive.