| Description |
1 online resource (201 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in African Literature Series |
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Routledge Studies in African Literature Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Part I Feminist Perspectives from the African Continent -- Introduction: Literary Herstories of African Women's Lives -- Chapter 1 Radical Feminist Synergy and Sexual Exploitation in Nawal El Saadawi's God Dies by the Nile -- Chapter 2 Caste, Class, and Women's Identity in Maru by Bessie Head -- Chapter 3 Sisters of the Soil: Women's Resistance in Muthoni Likimani's: Passbook Number F.47927 -- Chapter 4 Postcolonial Disjunctures and Urban Spaces in Amma Darko's Faceless |
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Part II Voices from the Diaspora in African Women's Fiction -- Chapter 5 Unveiling Women's Identities in the African Muslim Diaspora in Leila Aboulela's The Translator and Minaret -- Chapter 6 Ruptured Spaces of the Self in We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo -- Chapter 7 Black Venus Dreams and the Migrant Body in Igiaba Scego's Adua -- Chapter 8 Afropolitan Energies in the Twenty-First Century: Immigrants, Dreamers, and Marginalized Others in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Conclusion: Narrating African Women's Lives in Africa and the Diaspora -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000917109 |
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100091710X |
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