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Author Newell, Stephanie

Title Writing African Women : Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa
Edition 2nd ed
Published London : Zed Books, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (217 pages)
Series African Culture Archive
African culture archive.
Contents Cover ; About the Author ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Foreword by Wendy Griswold
Introduction: Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa Stephanie Newell Part I: Theory and Politics ; 1: Reading Towards a Theorization of African Women's Writing: African Women Writers within Feminist Gynocriticism; 2: Masculinity: The Military, Women and Cultural Politics in Nigeria ; 3: Women's Role in Ghana's Social Development ; Part II: Literatures ; 4: A Life on the Women's Page: Treena Kwenta's Diary ; 5: Recovering Lost Voices: The Short Stories of Mabel Dove-Danquah
6: Rewriting Popular Myths of Female Subordination: Selected Stories by Theodora Adimora-Ezeigbo and May Ifeoma Nwoye 7: Gender Conflict in Flora Nwapa's Novels ; 8: Culture and Gender Semantics in Flora Nwapa's Poetry ; 9: Behind the Veil in Northern Nigeria: The Writing of Zaynab Alkali and Hauwa Ali ; 10: The Onus of Womanhood: Mariama Bâ and Zaynab Alkali ; 11: Narrative Technique and the Politics of Gender: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy and No Sweetness Here ; Part III: Popular Culture ; 12: Hausa Women as Oral Storytellers in Northern Nigeria
13: Gender Politics in West African Mask Performance 14: Anatomy of Masculine Power: Three Perspectives on Marriage and Gender in Nigerian Non-fiction ; 15: Gender Tempered Through Metal: Women in Metal-Casting in Benin City, Nigeria ; Index
Summary An enlivening exploration of the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender in African literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject West African literature (English) -- History and criticism
Women and literature -- Africa, West -- History
Popular culture -- Africa, West
Authorship -- Sex differences
Cultural studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Authorship -- Sex differences
Popular culture
West African literature (English)
Women and literature
West Africa
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Griswold, Wendy
ISBN 9781350224148
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