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Title African women writing resistance : an anthology of contemporary voices / edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez [and others]
Published Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 337 pages)
Series Women in Africa and the diaspora
Women in Africa and the diaspora.
Contents pt. 1. Engaging with tradition -- pt. 2. Speaking out : young women on sexuality -- pt. 3. Challenging the institution of marriage -- pt. 4. Focusing on survival : women's health issues -- pt. 5. Taking a stand : women as activists against war, environmental degradation, and social conflict -- pt. 6. Writing from a different place : perspectives on exile and diaspora -- pt. 7. Standing at the edge of time : African women's visions of the past, present, and future
Summary This work is a transnational anthology that focuses on women's strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal narratives, testimony, interviews, short stories, poetry, performance scripts, folktales, and lyrics. Thematically organized, it presents women's writing on such issues as intertribal and interethnic conflicts, the degradation of the environment, polygamy, domestic abuse, the controversial traditional practice of female genital cutting, Sharia law, intergenerational tensions, and emigration and exile. Contributors include internationally recognized authors and activists such as Wangari Maathai and Nawal El Saadawi, as well as a host of new voices from all over the African continent and from the African diaspora. Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection provides an introduction to contemporary African women's literature and highlights social issues that are particular to Africa but are also of worldwide concern
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 25, 2021)
Subject African literature -- Women authors -- 21st century
Women authors, African.
Women -- Africa -- 21st century -- Social conditions -- Sources
African literature -- Women authors
Women authors, African
Women -- Social conditions
Africa
Genre/Form Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Browdy de Hernandez, Jennifer.
ISBN 9780299236632
0299236633
1282697463
9781282697461