Female subjectivities in African literature / Smith and Ce [ed.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Charles, editor.

Ce, Chinenye, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in literature.

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

African literature.

African literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Nigeria, West Africa : African Library of Critical Writing, [2015]

Summary:

In literature the ambiguous portraiture of female characters by some male writers and the phallic nature of men's writings have proved a matter of concern to female writers in Africa.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Introduction - The New Female Subjectivities

Chapter 1 - Silencing the Abusers

Head's "Collector of Treasures" (1977)

mariama Ba's So Long a Letter (1980)

Yvonne Vera's Under the Tongue (1997)

Neshani Andreas'Purple Violet of Oshaantu (2001)

Sindiwe Magoma's Beauty's Gift (2008)

Chapter 2 - Subjectivity in the "Eye" of Morrison

Subjectivity and Identity in The Bluest Eye

The Imaginary Other: the stage of mirroring others

The Symbolic Other

Chapter 3 - Rotimi's Drama and the Gender Issue

II

III

IV

Chapter 4 - Rethinking the African Woman's Identity

Feminism in Nigerian Literature

Rethinking Feminism and the African Identity

Onwueme's Feminism in Tell it to Women

The Social Context of African Feminine Identity

Chapter 5 - The Conflicts of Fall and Osammar

Chapter 6 - The Women of Ousmane and Dlamini

Chapter 7 - Female Subjectivity in Achebe's Novels

Chapter 8 - Female Sexuality in Bessora's Novel

Rehearsing Sexuality: Yeno vs Modeste

Normative Health and Fragmented Relations

Yeno and 'les multitudes'

Chapter 9 - Enekwe's Feminine Archetypes

The Femme Fatale

The Madonna

Chapter 10 - Women, Race and Liberation

Notes and Bibliography

Back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9789783703650

978370365X

OCLC:

927973270