Nwanyibu : womanbeing & African literature / edited by Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru and Ketu H. Katrak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Egejuru, Phanuel Akubueze.

Katrak, Ketu H.

African Literature Association. Meeting 1991 : Loyola University)

Series:

Annual selected papers of the ALA 1093-2976 ; no. 1.

Annual selected papers of the ALA, 1093-2976 ; no. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--Women authors--History and criticism--Congresses.

African literature.

African literature--Women authors.

African literature--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.

Women in literature--Congresses.

Women in literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

168 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First Africa World Press, Inc. edition.

Other Title:

Womanbeing & African literature

Womanbeing and African literature

Place of Publication:

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 1997.

Contents:

The paradox of womanbeing and the female principle in Igbo cosmology / Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru

A reading of Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa / N. Jane Opoku-Agyemang

Female perspectives in African literature / Emmanuel Obiechina

Female choices, the militant option in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra and Alice Walker's Meridian / Pauline Ada Uwakweh

Beyond femaleness, Beryl Markham, Africa's adopted daughter in West with the wind / Mary A. McCay

The dynamics of power in Mudimbe's Before the birth of the moon / Janice Spleth

The battlefield of politics and selfhood in Bessie Head's A question of power / Natasha Vaubel

Black women writers, English fiction in a new South Africa / Elizabeth Taylor

Zoe Wicomb's You can't get lost in Cape Town, "A new clean Voice" / Carol Sicherman

From La Noire de... to Milk and Honey, Portraits of the alienated African woman / Janis L. Pallister

Sow Fall, Sembene, Achebe and Senghor, literary representations of political realities / Hal Wylie

Anti-colonialist and womanist discourse in the works of Jamaica Kincaid and Simone Schwwarz-Bart / Gerise Herndon.

Notes:

"17th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association held at Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana, from March 20 to 23, 1991"--P. [1].

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0865436177

0865436185

OCLC:

36548963