Unraveling gender, race & diaspora / edited by Obioma Nnaemeka and Jennifer Thorington Springer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nnaemeka, Obioma, 1948- editor.

Springer, Jennifer Thorington, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's studies--Africa.

Women's studies.

Women and literature--Africa.

Women and literature.

Africa.

African literature--History and criticism.

African literature.

Race in literature.

African diaspora.

African diaspora in literature.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 336 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Unraveling gender, race and diaspora

Place of Publication:

Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, [2016]

Contents:

Introduction: Gendered displacements : containment and freedoms / Jennifer Thorington Springer and Obioma Nnaemeka

Viewing and interrogating masculinities. "Trashy" women : Fela's wives, Osuofia's wives / Kenneth Harrow

Scandalous women, patriarchal nationhood, and narratives of "development" : Assia Djebar's fantasia : an Algerian cavalcade and Ingrid Sinclair's flame / Ellie Higgins

"Trying to learn you how to touch your own spirit" : Julie Dash, memory, and cultural project in Daughters of the dust / Obododimma Oha

Orality, performance and subjectivities. Power, marginality and woman being in Igbo oral narratives / Chukwuma Azuonye

Using theatre to promote women's health in Burkina Faso / Joyce Hope Scott

'Are real women just bad porn?' : a look at the role of women in the Nigerian hip hop culture / Albert O. Oikelome

Narrating postcoloniality/locating gendered spaces. Writing back and Nigerian writing : gendered 'herstories' of a postcolonial concepts / Susan Arndt

Options for women development in Igbo patriarchy : the dynamics of Flora Nwapa's womanist interventions / Akachi Ezeigbo

Hysterically speaking : abjection, marginalization and insanity in the feminine francophone African novel / Valerie Orlando

The female body politic : literary inscriptions of mothering, violence, and dis(-)ease in the novels of Ayi Kwei Armah / Naana Banyiwa Horne

Writing : self-construction of the African woman as author / Gloria Onyeoziri

Mapping and re-imagining the diaspora. Making life on foreign soil : Paule Marshall's immigrant women / Jennifer Thorington Springer

Voice of a masquerade : hidden traditions of orature in the poetry of Phillis Wheatley / Bunmi Oyinsan

Shifting goalposts : an immigrant teacher's experience / Florence Namulundah.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781569024287

1569024286

1569024278

9781569024270

OCLC:

928449307