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.

Series:

African perspectives (University of Michigan. Press)

African perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hausa (African people)--Social conditions.

Hausa (African people).

Hausa fiction.

Hausa literature.

Hausa (African people)--Music.

Women, Hausa--Social conditions.

Women, Hausa.

Muslim women--Nigeria, Northern.

Muslim women.

Muslim women--Niger.

Gender-based violence--Nigeria, Northern.

Gender-based violence.

Gender-based violence--Niger.

Physical Description:

xxi, 264 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm.

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."-Amazon.com

Contents:

Writing resistance/breaking silence: Razinat T. Mohammed's transgressive novel Habiba

Hausa gospel popular song "Mazaje" (Men): musical advocacy against gender-based violence

"Alhaji roaming the city": gender, HIV, popular songs, and performing arts

Hausa poetic narratives, the COVID-19 pandemic, and vernacular criticism

Amina Alan Waka's song "Hasbi Allahu": critical poetics, coronavirus pandemics, and Islamic sermonic wa'azi

Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Alidou, Ousseina. Protest arts, gender, and social change.

ISBN:

9780472056682

0472056689

9780472076680

047207668X

OCLC:

1393302697