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African Women Writing Resistance : An Anthology of Contemporary Voices / edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Pauline Dongala, Omotayo Jolaosho, [...] et al.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Women in Africa and the diaspora.
- Women in Africa and the diaspora
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Africa--Social conditions--21st century--Sources.
- Women.
- Women authors, African.
- African literature--Women authors--21st century.
- African literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- African Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women's strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal narratives, testimony, interviews, short stories, poetry, performance scripts, folktales, and lyrics. Thematically organized, it presents women's writing on such issues as intertribal and interethnic conflicts, the degradation of the environment, polygamy, domestic abuse, the controversial traditional practice of female genital cutting, Sharia law, intergenerational tensions, and emigration and exile. Contributors include internationally recognized authors and activists such as Wangari Maathai and Nawal El Saadawi, as well as a host of vibrant new voices from all over the African continent and from the African diaspora. Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection provides an excellent introduction to contemporary African women's literature, and highlights social issues that are particular to Africa, but also of worldwide concern. It is an essential reference for students of African studies, world literature, anthropology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and women's studies.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Engaging with tradition
- pt. 2. Speaking out : young women on sexuality
- pt. 3. Challenging the institution of marriage
- pt. 4. Focusing on survival : women's health issues
- pt. 5. Taking a stand : women as activists against war, environmental degradation, and social conflict
- pt. 6. Writing from a different place : perspectives on exile and diaspora
- pt. 7. Standing at the edge of time : African women's visions of the past, present, and future.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-325) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612697463
- 9781282697461
- 1282697463
- 9780299236632
- 0299236633
- OCLC:
- 664555999
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