African pasts, presents, and futures : generational shifts in African women's literature, film, and internet discourse / / Touria Khannous |
Autore | Khannous Touria |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.89287096 |
Collana | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France |
Soggetto topico |
African literature - Women authors - History and criticism
Internet and women - Africa Internet - Social aspects - Africa Motion pictures - Africa Women and literature - Africa - History - 20th century Women and literature - Africa - History - 21st century Women motion picture producers and directors - Africa |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-7391-7042-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Theoretical Introduction; I: Negotiating Colonial and National Politics; 1 Algerian Women in the Public Sphere; 2 Ama Ata Aidoo's Modernism and the Politics of Postcolonialism; 3 Rewriting Power; II: Postcolonial Injustices; 4 National Reconciliation through Narrative; 5 National Violence and Male Crisis Discourse in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins; 6 Political Satire in Tess Onwueme's Play No Vacancy; III: Reflections on Islam, Identity, and Gender; 7 Islam, Gender, and Identity in Leila Abouzeid's The Last Chapter
8 Strategies of Representation and Post/colonial Identity in Farida Benlyazid's Door to the Sky and Moufida Tlatli's Silences of the Palace9 Islam, Youth, and the Global; IV: Internet Discourse and Women as Agents of Change; 10 Debating Islam, Gender, and the Arab Spring; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453735403321 |
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African pasts, presents, and futures : generational shifts in African women's literature, film, and internet discourse / / Touria Khannous |
Autore | Khannous Touria |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.89287096 |
Collana | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France |
Soggetto topico |
African literature - Women authors - History and criticism
Internet and women - Africa Internet - Social aspects - Africa Motion pictures - Africa Women and literature - Africa - History - 20th century Women and literature - Africa - History - 21st century Women motion picture producers and directors - Africa |
ISBN | 0-7391-7042-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Theoretical Introduction; I: Negotiating Colonial and National Politics; 1 Algerian Women in the Public Sphere; 2 Ama Ata Aidoo's Modernism and the Politics of Postcolonialism; 3 Rewriting Power; II: Postcolonial Injustices; 4 National Reconciliation through Narrative; 5 National Violence and Male Crisis Discourse in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins; 6 Political Satire in Tess Onwueme's Play No Vacancy; III: Reflections on Islam, Identity, and Gender; 7 Islam, Gender, and Identity in Leila Abouzeid's The Last Chapter
8 Strategies of Representation and Post/colonial Identity in Farida Benlyazid's Door to the Sky and Moufida Tlatli's Silences of the Palace9 Islam, Youth, and the Global; IV: Internet Discourse and Women as Agents of Change; 10 Debating Islam, Gender, and the Arab Spring; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790893003321 |
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Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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African pasts, presents, and futures : generational shifts in African women's literature, film, and internet discourse / / Touria Khannous |
Autore | Khannous Touria |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.89287096 |
Collana | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France |
Soggetto topico |
African literature - Women authors - History and criticism
Internet and women - Africa Internet - Social aspects - Africa Motion pictures - Africa Women and literature - Africa - History - 20th century Women and literature - Africa - History - 21st century Women motion picture producers and directors - Africa |
ISBN | 0-7391-7042-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Theoretical Introduction; I: Negotiating Colonial and National Politics; 1 Algerian Women in the Public Sphere; 2 Ama Ata Aidoo's Modernism and the Politics of Postcolonialism; 3 Rewriting Power; II: Postcolonial Injustices; 4 National Reconciliation through Narrative; 5 National Violence and Male Crisis Discourse in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins; 6 Political Satire in Tess Onwueme's Play No Vacancy; III: Reflections on Islam, Identity, and Gender; 7 Islam, Gender, and Identity in Leila Abouzeid's The Last Chapter
8 Strategies of Representation and Post/colonial Identity in Farida Benlyazid's Door to the Sky and Moufida Tlatli's Silences of the Palace9 Islam, Youth, and the Global; IV: Internet Discourse and Women as Agents of Change; 10 Debating Islam, Gender, and the Arab Spring; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809012403321 |
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Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Doris Lessing : border crossings / edited by Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; New York, : Continuum, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
Disciplina | 823.914 |
Collana | Continuum literary studies |
Soggetto topico |
Literature and society - England - History - 20th century
Women and literature - England - History - 20th century Women and literature - Africa - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-4725-4240-1
1-282-45287-8 9786612452871 1-4411-2102-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Note on Contributors -- Introduction: Doris Lessing's Border Crossings, Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) -- 1. Horrors of the Breast: Cultural Boundaries and the Abject in The Grass is Singing, Edith Frampton (San Diego State University, USA) -- 2. Inside and Outside Colonial Spaces: Border Crossings in Doris Lessing's African Stories', Pat Louw (University of Zululand, SA) -- 3. Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook: An Experiment in Critical Fiction, Nick Bentley (University of Keele, UK) -- 4. Doris Lessing's Fantastic Children, Roberta Rubenstein (American University, US) -- 5. The 'Jane Somers' Hoax: Aging, Gender and the Literary Marketplace, Susan Watkins (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) -- 6. (Not Such) Great Expectations: Unmaking Maternal Ideals in The Fifth Child and We Need to Talk About Kevin, Ruth Robbins (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) -- 7. Doris Lessing's Under My Skin: The Autobiography of a Cosmopolitan 'Third Culture Kid', Alice Ridout (University of Leeds, UK) -- 8. Environmental Fables? The eco-politics of Doris Lessing's 'Ifrik' novels, Fiona Becket, (University of Leeds, UK) -- 9. The Porous Border Between Fact and Fiction, Empathy and Identification in Doris Lessing's The Cleft, Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (University of Ottawa, CA) -- Afterword, Judith Kegan Gardiner -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456476803321 |
London ; New York, : Continuum, 2009 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Doris Lessing : border crossings / edited by Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; New York, : Continuum, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
Disciplina | 823.914 |
Collana | Continuum literary studies |
Soggetto topico |
Literature and society - England - History - 20th century
Women and literature - England - History - 20th century Women and literature - Africa - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-4725-4240-1
1-282-45287-8 9786612452871 1-4411-2102-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Note on Contributors -- Introduction: Doris Lessing's Border Crossings, Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) -- 1. Horrors of the Breast: Cultural Boundaries and the Abject in The Grass is Singing, Edith Frampton (San Diego State University, USA) -- 2. Inside and Outside Colonial Spaces: Border Crossings in Doris Lessing's African Stories', Pat Louw (University of Zululand, SA) -- 3. Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook: An Experiment in Critical Fiction, Nick Bentley (University of Keele, UK) -- 4. Doris Lessing's Fantastic Children, Roberta Rubenstein (American University, US) -- 5. The 'Jane Somers' Hoax: Aging, Gender and the Literary Marketplace, Susan Watkins (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) -- 6. (Not Such) Great Expectations: Unmaking Maternal Ideals in The Fifth Child and We Need to Talk About Kevin, Ruth Robbins (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) -- 7. Doris Lessing's Under My Skin: The Autobiography of a Cosmopolitan 'Third Culture Kid', Alice Ridout (University of Leeds, UK) -- 8. Environmental Fables? The eco-politics of Doris Lessing's 'Ifrik' novels, Fiona Becket, (University of Leeds, UK) -- 9. The Porous Border Between Fact and Fiction, Empathy and Identification in Doris Lessing's The Cleft, Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (University of Ottawa, CA) -- Afterword, Judith Kegan Gardiner -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780818303321 |
London ; New York, : Continuum, 2009 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Doris Lessing : border crossings / edited by Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; New York, : Continuum, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
Disciplina | 823.914 |
Collana | Continuum literary studies |
Soggetto topico |
Literature and society - England - History - 20th century
Women and literature - England - History - 20th century Women and literature - Africa - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-4725-4240-1
1-282-45287-8 9786612452871 1-4411-2102-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Note on Contributors -- Introduction: Doris Lessing's Border Crossings, Alice Ridout and Susan Watkins (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) -- 1. Horrors of the Breast: Cultural Boundaries and the Abject in The Grass is Singing, Edith Frampton (San Diego State University, USA) -- 2. Inside and Outside Colonial Spaces: Border Crossings in Doris Lessing's African Stories', Pat Louw (University of Zululand, SA) -- 3. Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook: An Experiment in Critical Fiction, Nick Bentley (University of Keele, UK) -- 4. Doris Lessing's Fantastic Children, Roberta Rubenstein (American University, US) -- 5. The 'Jane Somers' Hoax: Aging, Gender and the Literary Marketplace, Susan Watkins (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) -- 6. (Not Such) Great Expectations: Unmaking Maternal Ideals in The Fifth Child and We Need to Talk About Kevin, Ruth Robbins (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) -- 7. Doris Lessing's Under My Skin: The Autobiography of a Cosmopolitan 'Third Culture Kid', Alice Ridout (University of Leeds, UK) -- 8. Environmental Fables? The eco-politics of Doris Lessing's 'Ifrik' novels, Fiona Becket, (University of Leeds, UK) -- 9. The Porous Border Between Fact and Fiction, Empathy and Identification in Doris Lessing's The Cleft, Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (University of Ottawa, CA) -- Afterword, Judith Kegan Gardiner -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825775403321 |
London ; New York, : Continuum, 2009 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Society, women and literature in Africa / / Florence Onyebuchi Orabueze |
Autore | Orabueze Florence Onyebuchi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Port Harcourt, Nigeria : , : M & J Grand Orbit Communications Ltd., , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.89287 |
Soggetto topico |
Feminist literature - Africa - History - 20th century - History and criticism
Women and literature - Africa - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 978-54215-8-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreword -- 1. The ugly face of Ghana in the new millennium : alienation of children in Amma Darko's Faceless -- 2. Womanhood as a metaphor for sexual slavery in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at point zero -- 3. Our endangered values : the challenges of parenthood in the 21st century in Chukwuemeka Ike's Our children are coming! and Bode Osanyin's The noble mistress -- 4. Women's cross-cultural burden in the selected works of some West African female writers -- 5. Gendered social division of labour in the African novel -- 6. The prison world of the Nigerian woman : an aspect of gender silences in Sefi Atta's Everything Good will come -- 7. The theme of dispossession in A.N. Akwanya's Pilgrim foot -- 8. Prostitution : a metaphor for the degradation of womanhood in Bode Osanyin's The noble mistress. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465685703321 |
Orabueze Florence Onyebuchi
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Port Harcourt, Nigeria : , : M & J Grand Orbit Communications Ltd., , 2015 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Society, women and literature in Africa / / Florence Onyebuchi Orabueze |
Autore | Orabueze Florence Onyebuchi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Port Harcourt, Nigeria : , : M & J Grand Orbit Communications Ltd., , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.89287 |
Soggetto topico |
Feminist literature - Africa - History - 20th century - History and criticism
Women and literature - Africa - History - 20th century |
ISBN | 978-54215-8-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreword -- 1. The ugly face of Ghana in the new millennium : alienation of children in Amma Darko's Faceless -- 2. Womanhood as a metaphor for sexual slavery in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at point zero -- 3. Our endangered values : the challenges of parenthood in the 21st century in Chukwuemeka Ike's Our children are coming! and Bode Osanyin's The noble mistress -- 4. Women's cross-cultural burden in the selected works of some West African female writers -- 5. Gendered social division of labour in the African novel -- 6. The prison world of the Nigerian woman : an aspect of gender silences in Sefi Atta's Everything Good will come -- 7. The theme of dispossession in A.N. Akwanya's Pilgrim foot -- 8. Prostitution : a metaphor for the degradation of womanhood in Bode Osanyin's The noble mistress. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798599303321 |
Orabueze Florence Onyebuchi
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Port Harcourt, Nigeria : , : M & J Grand Orbit Communications Ltd., , 2015 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Society, women and literature in Africa / / Florence Onyebuchi Orabueze |
Autore | Orabueze Florence Onyebuchi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Port Harcourt, Nigeria : , : M & J Grand Orbit Communications Ltd., , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.89287 |
Soggetto topico |
Feminist literature - Africa - History - 20th century - History and criticism
Women and literature - Africa - History - 20th century |
ISBN | 978-54215-8-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreword -- 1. The ugly face of Ghana in the new millennium : alienation of children in Amma Darko's Faceless -- 2. Womanhood as a metaphor for sexual slavery in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at point zero -- 3. Our endangered values : the challenges of parenthood in the 21st century in Chukwuemeka Ike's Our children are coming! and Bode Osanyin's The noble mistress -- 4. Women's cross-cultural burden in the selected works of some West African female writers -- 5. Gendered social division of labour in the African novel -- 6. The prison world of the Nigerian woman : an aspect of gender silences in Sefi Atta's Everything Good will come -- 7. The theme of dispossession in A.N. Akwanya's Pilgrim foot -- 8. Prostitution : a metaphor for the degradation of womanhood in Bode Osanyin's The noble mistress. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822166403321 |
Orabueze Florence Onyebuchi
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Port Harcourt, Nigeria : , : M & J Grand Orbit Communications Ltd., , 2015 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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