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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction -- The New Female Subjectivities; Chapter 1 -- Silencing the Abusers; Head's ""Collector of Treasures"" (1977); mariama Ba's So Long a Letter (1980); Yvonne Vera's Under the Tongue (1997); Neshani Andreas'Purple Violet of Oshaantu (2001); Sindiwe Magoma's Beauty's Gift (2008); Chapter 2 -- Subjectivity in the ""Eye"" of Morrison; Subjectivity and Identity in The Bluest Eye; The Imaginary Other: the stage of mirroring others; The Symbolic Other; Chapter 3 -- Rotimi's Drama and the Gender Issue; II; III; IV. |
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Chapter 4 -- Rethinking the African Woman's IdentityFeminism in Nigerian Literature; Rethinking Feminism and the African Identity; Onwueme's Feminism in Tell it to Women; The Social Context of African Feminine Identity; Chapter 5 -- The Conflicts of Fall and Osammar; Chapter 6 -- The Women of Ousmane and Dlamini; Chapter 7 -- Female Subjectivity in Achebe's Novels; Chapter 8 -- Female Sexuality in Bessora's Novel; Rehearsing Sexuality: Yeno vs Modeste; Normative Health and Fragmented Relations; Yeno and 'les multitudes'; Chapter 9 -- Enekwe's Feminine Archetypes; The Femme Fatale; The Madonna. |
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Chapter 10 -- Women, Race and LiberationNotes and Bibliography; Back cover. |
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In literature the ambiguous portraiture of female characters by some male writers and the phallic nature of men's writings have proved a matter of concern to female writers in Africa. For decades within African writing the issue of silencing was interrogated particularly as it addressed the muting and marginalisation of black women by male writers through the script of patriarchy which men follow. In this series we continue the literary and dramatic tradition of feminist concern for women's issues and we review novels, plays and poetry which demonstrate a commitment to exploring the challenges facing modern women in changing times and excerpting the issues of gender, feminism, identity, race, history, national and international politics specifically as they affect women. Female Subjectivities collectively answers the need to question and adumbrate the possibilities of literary revisions, showing what it would mean to revise even the Feminist psychoanalyst in a discourse on the subjectivity of women of colour. |
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African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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African literature. |
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20th century |
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African literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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African literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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African literature -- Women authors. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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1900-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Druck-Ausgabe Female subjectivities in African literature |
| ISBN |
978370365X (e-book) |
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9789783703650 (electronic book) |
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9783703625 |
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