The politics of (m)othering : womanhood, identity, and resistance in African literature / edited by Obioma Nnaemeka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nnaemeka, Obioma, 1948-

Series:

Opening out.

Opening out

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--History and criticism.

African literature.

Femininity in literature.

Feminism and literature--Africa.

Feminism and literature.

Politics and literature--Africa.

Politics and literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Women and literature--Africa.

Women and literature.

Motherhood in literature.

Mothers in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Politics of mothering

Politics of othering

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal.

Contents:

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Series preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Mother's talk; 2 Nervous Conditions; 3 Why the Snake-Lizard killed his mother; 4 The Eye and the Other; 5 Enlightenment epistemology and "aesthetic cognition"; 6 Calixthe Beyala's "femme-fillette"; 7 Bound to matter; 8 MotherTongues and childless women; 9 Ontological victimhood; 10 Urban spaces, women's places; 11 Reconstructing motherhood; 12 Geographies of pain; Index;

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-134-77437-0

1-134-77438-9

1-280-14400-9

0-203-98131-6

9780203981313

OCLC:

475947217