Mother Africa, Father Marx : women's writing of Mozambique, 1948-2002 / Hilary Owen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owen, Hilary, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chiziane, Paulina, 1955-.

Momplé, Lilia, 1935-.

Magaia, Lina.

Sousa, Noémia de, 1926-2002.

Mozambican literature (Portuguese)--Women authors--History and criticism.

Mozambican literature (Portuguese).

Mozambican literature (Portuguese)--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature and society--Mozambique.

Literature and society.

Sousa, Noémia de, 1926-2002--Criticism and interpretation.

Sousa, Noémia de.

Magaia, Lina--Criticism and interpretation.

Momplé, Lilia, 1935---Criticism and interpretation.

Momplé, Lilia.

Chiziane, Paulina, 1955---Criticism and interpretation.

Chiziane, Paulina.

Criticism and interpretation.

Women authors.

Mozambique.

Physical Description:

274 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, [2007]

Summary:

This book is the first work in the English language to discuss the participation of women writers in the narrative construction of Mozambican nationhood over the last half-century. Covering the rise of anti-colonial nationalism in the 1950s, the advent of the Marxist-Leninist Republic in the 1970s, the war that followed independence in the 1980s, and the transition to democracy and the neo-liberal economy in the 1990s, the volume focuses on four representative women writers who belong to distinct but overlapping periods and work in different genres. Dealing with Noemia de Sousa's poetry, Lina Magaia's testimonial writings, Lilia Momple's short fiction, and Paulina Chiziane's novels, the result is a close reading of the ways in which women have narrated and counter-narrated Mozambican nationhood to take account of the gendered power relations that traditionally underpin national community as imagined by men.

Contents:

Introduction : Mother Africa, Father Marx

A hybridity of one's own : re-reading Noémia de Sousa

Lina Magaia : reclaiming the body politic

Lília Momplé : unworlding the home

Paulina Chiziane : the unmanning of Mozambique

Conclusion

lost in trans/nation?

the gender marketing of Mozambique.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261) and index.

ISBN:

0838756573

9780838756577

OCLC:

70122435