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Writing African Women : Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa / Stephanie Newell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newell, Stephanie, author.
- Series:
- African culture archive.
- African Culture Archive
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- West African literature (English)--History and criticism.
- West African literature (English).
- Women and literature--Africa, West--History.
- Women and literature.
- Popular culture--Africa, West.
- Popular culture.
- Authorship--Sex differences.
- Authorship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages).
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Distribution:
- [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Zed Books, 2017.
- Summary:
- An enlivening exploration of the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender in African literature.
- Contents:
- Cover ; About the Author ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Foreword by Wendy Griswold.
- Introduction: Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa Stephanie Newell Part I: Theory and Politics ; 1: Reading Towards a Theorization of African Women's Writing: African Women Writers within Feminist Gynocriticism; 2: Masculinity: The Military, Women and Cultural Politics in Nigeria ; 3: Women's Role in Ghana's Social Development ; Part II: Literatures ; 4: A Life on the Women's Page: Treena Kwenta's Diary ; 5: Recovering Lost Voices: The Short Stories of Mabel Dove-Danquah.
- 6: Rewriting Popular Myths of Female Subordination: Selected Stories by Theodora Adimora-Ezeigbo and May Ifeoma Nwoye 7: Gender Conflict in Flora Nwapa's Novels ; 8: Culture and Gender Semantics in Flora Nwapa's Poetry ; 9: Behind the Veil in Northern Nigeria: The Writing of Zaynab Alkali and Hauwa Ali ; 10: The Onus of Womanhood: Mariama Bâ and Zaynab Alkali ; 11: Narrative Technique and the Politics of Gender: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy and No Sweetness Here ; Part III: Popular Culture ; 12: Hausa Women as Oral Storytellers in Northern Nigeria.
- 13: Gender Politics in West African Mask Performance 14: Anatomy of Masculine Power: Three Perspectives on Marriage and Gender in Nigerian Non-fiction ; 15: Gender Tempered Through Metal: Women in Metal-Casting in Benin City, Nigeria ; Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781350224148
- 1350224146
- 9781786990105
- 1786990105
- 9781786990075
- 1786990075
- OCLC:
- 988868493
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