Bitter leafing woman : short stories / by Karen King-Aribisala.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King-Aribisala, Karen, author.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Nigeria--Social conditions--Fiction.

Women.

Social conditions.

Nigeria.

Genre:

Short stories.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

195 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lagos, Nigeria : Malthouse Press Limited, 2017.

Summary:

Set in Nigeria, Bitter Leafing Woman relates the experiences of Woman as she chews the bitter leaves of patriarchal oppression in a bid to transform them into gender balanced sweetness. Here Woman becomes a symbol of the oppressed; of women and men alike. The style of writing ranges from plain prose as in The Edi Kai Ikong War, magical realism as in World of the Fat/Thin House, the social satire of The Bone Eater, the densely poetic and symbolic Broken Plate and the biblical imbued style of Bitter Leafing Woman who finding herself drowning in the soup of gender oppression for forty years attempts to murder her Deacon fiancé. In this collection we become involved with serious issues of conflicts, which nevertheless we try to treat with sardonic humour and insight.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Dear Okonkwo

My Sweet Darling Little Moin-Moin

The Meat of Leave Me Alone

Purification

Another Life/Another's Life

The Edi Kai Ikong War

The Law of the Black Berry

World of the Fat/Thin House

The Sokoyokotos

In Tact

The Bone Eater

The Difference is Clear

Manufactured Pon Mori

The Old Man

The Wedding Cake Plot

Commercialized Palm Wine

The Hart and the Hound

Picnic at Epe

The Good Woman/The Bad Woman

Bitter Leafing Woman: Part 1

Bitter Leafing Woman: Part 2: WFD and MID

Sitting Policeman

Broken Plate

Dance of the Nursing Mother

Ice Cream Green

Salt and Peppers.

ISBN:

9789789597208

9789597207

OCLC:

995167211

Publisher Number:

99989206903