Description |
1 online resource (217 pages) |
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African Culture Archive |
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African culture archive.
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Contents |
Cover ; About the Author ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Foreword by Wendy Griswold |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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Women and literature -- Africa, West -- History
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Popular culture -- Africa, West
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Authorship -- Sex differences
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Cultural studies.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Authorship -- Sex differences
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Popular culture
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West African literature (English)
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Women and literature
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West Africa
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Griswold, Wendy
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ISBN |
9781350224148 |
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1350224146 |
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9781786990075 |
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1786990075 |
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9781786990082 |
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1786990083 |
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9781786990099 |
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1786990091 |
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