Protest arts, gender, and social change : fiction, popular songs, and the media in Hausa society across borders / Ousseina D. Alidou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alidou, Ousseina, author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

African perspectives (University of Michigan. Press)

African perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hausa literature--History and criticism.

Hausa literature.

Hausa fiction--History and criticism.

Hausa fiction.

Songs, Hausa--History and criticism.

Songs, Hausa.

Hausa (African people)--In mass media.

Hausa (African people).

Hausa (African people)--Social conditions.

Nigeria--Social conditions.

Nigeria.

Niger--Social conditions.

Niger.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 254 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2024.

Summary:

Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders by Ousseina Alidou examines how a new generation of novelists, popular songwriters, and musical performers in contemporary Hausa society are using their creative works to effect social change. This book empathizes with the reality of the forms of oppression, social isolation, and marginalization that vulnerable and underprivileged communities in contemporary Hausa society in Northern Nigeria and the Niger Republic have been experiencing from the mid-1980s to the present. It also highlights the ways in which song performances produce an intertextual dialogue between their lyrics and visual dramatic narratives to raise awareness against social ills, including gender-based violence and social inequalities exposed by biomedical health pandemics such as HIV and COVID-19. In these creative Hausa narratives, the oppressed and marginalized have agency in articulating their own experiences. While there is an abundance of social science studies giving voice to the dominant actors of hegemonic violence in Hausa society, there is a dearth of works that center the voices of the afflicted, unprivileged, and marginalized class, among whom are women and youth. One aim of this book is to examine the ways popular songs and fiction fill up the humanistic urgency to capture the dignity of the life of those dehumanized by local, national, and international hegemonic religious and secular forces. The book focuses on the resistance narratives of one female novelist and six song composers and performers that generate alternative counterhegemonic responses to dominant patriarchal discourses produced by cultural,

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-254) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472221653

0472221655

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.