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Title The politics of (m)othering : womanhood, identity, and resistance in African literature / edited by Obioma Nnaemeka.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 233 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Opening out
Opening out.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : imag(in)ing knowledge, power, and subversion in the margins / Obioma Nnaemeka -- Mother's talk / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Nervous conditions : Dangarembga's feminist reinvention of Fanon / Charles Sugnet -- Why the Snake-Lizard killed his mother : inscribing and decentering "Nneka" in Things fall apart / Ousseynou B. Traoré -- Eye and the other : the gaze and the look in Egyptian feminist fiction / Peter Hitchcock -- Enlightenment epistemology and "aesthetic cognition" : Mariama Bâ's So long a letter / Uzo Esonwanne -- Calixthe Beyala's "femme-fillette" : womanhood and the politics of (m)othering / Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi -- Bound to matter : the father's pen and mother tongues / Cynthia Ward -- Mother tongues and childless women : the construction of "Kenyan" "womanhood" / Celeste Fraser Delgado -- Ontological victimhood : "other" bodies in madness and exile : toward a Third World feminist epistemology / Huma Ibrahim -- Urban spaces, women's places : polygamy as sign in Mariama Bâ's novels / Obioma Nnaemeka -- Reconstructing motherhood : francophone African women autobiographers / Renée Larrier -- Geographies of pain : captive bodies and violent acts in the fictions of Gayl Jones, Bessie Head, and Myriam Warner-Vieyra / Françoise Lionnet.
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Subject African literature -- History and criticism.
African literature.
Femininity in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Feminism and literature -- Africa.
Feminism and literature.
Africa.
Politics and literature -- Africa.
Politics and literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Women and literature -- Africa.
Women and literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Mothers in literature.
Mothers in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Nnaemeka, Obioma, 1948-
Added Title Politics of mothering
Politics of othering
Other Form: Print version: Politics of (m)othering. London ; New York : Routledge, 1997 (DLC) 96020491
ISBN 0203981316 (electronic book)
9780203981313 (electronic book)
0415137896
041513790X (paperback)
9780415137898
9780415137904 (paperback)