Ngambika : studies of women in African literature / edited by Carole Boyce Davies & Anne Adams Graves.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyce Davies, Carole, editor.

Graves, Anne Adams, editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--History and criticism.

African literature.

Women in literature.

African literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

African literature--Women authors.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 298 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, Inc., 1986.

Contents:

Introduction: Feminist Consciousness and African Literary Criticism / Carole Boyce Davies

Part One: Defining "Woman's Place": Female Portraiture in African Literature. Images of Women in African Literature: Some Examples of Inequality in the Colonial Period / Esther Y. Smith; Women in Man's Exploration of His Country, His World: Chraibi's Succession Ouverte / Rafkika Merini; Women and Alienation: Analysis of the Works of Two Francophone African Novelists / Karen Smyley-Wallace; Maidens, Mistresses and Matrons: Feminine Images in Selected Soyinka Works / Carole Boyce Davies; Parasites and Prophets: The Use of Women in Ayi Kewi Armah's Novels / Abena P. A. Busia

Part Two: Towards a Critical Self-Definition of the African Woman: Writers and African Woman's Reality. African Womanhood: The Contrasting Perspect5ives of Flora Nwapa's Efuru and Elechi Amadi's The Concubine / Naana Banyiwa-Horne; The Works of Henri Lopes: A Forum for African Women's Consciousness / Anna Adams Graves; Daughters of Moombi: Ngugi's Heroines and Traditional Gikuyu Aesthetics / Charles Nama; The Feminist Impulse and Social Realism in Ama Ata Aidoo's No Sweetness Here and Our Sister Killjoy / Chimalum Nwankwo; The concept of Choice in Mariama Ba's Fiction / Irene Assiba d'Almeida; Reintegration with the Lost Self: A study of Buchi Emecheta's Double Yoke / Marie Linton Umeh; Songs from Silence: Hausa Women's Poetry / Beverly Mack

part Three: Social and Political Themes: Women's Issues in African Literary Criticism. Through Her Prism of Social and Political Contexts: Sembène's Female Characters in Tribal Scars / Brenda Berrian; Women as Scapegoats of Culture and Cult: An Activist's View of Female Circumcision in Ngugi's The River Between / Tobe Levin. Okigob's Layrinths and the Context of Ibgo Attitutdes to the Female Principle / Elaine Savory Fido; Motherhood in the Works of Male and Female Igbo Writers: Achebe, Emcheta, Nwapa and Nzekwu / Carole Boye Davies; The Grandmother in African and African-American Literature / Mildred Hill-Lubin; Marriage, Tradition and Woman's Pursuit of Happiness in the Novels of Mariama Ba / Edris Makward.

Notes:

"Ngambika* *Help me to balance this load."--Cover.

"Cover design by Adjoa Jackson-Burrowes."

"The eighteen essays in this anthology must be viewed as a selection, father than an overview or comprehensive study, of critical analyses of literature about the African woman."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-293).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0865430187

0865430179

OCLC:

13169422