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1 online resource (xix, 274 pages). |
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Matatu ; no. 29-30
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Versions and subversions in African literatures ; 1
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Matatu ; no. 29-30.
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Versions and subversions in African literatures ; 1.
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Most of the essays in this volume originated at the international conference "Versions & Subversions in African Literatures," which took place in Berlin in May 2003. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Lifting the veil of secrecy / Flora Veit-Wild and Dirk Naguschewski -- Gendered bodies: Têtê-à-tête with the chief: post-womanist discourse in Bessie Head's Maru / Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi ; Roots/routes: place, bodies and sexuality in Yvonne Vera's Butterfly burning / Robert Muponde ; Mad body-gifts: a postcolonial myth of motherhood in Calixthe Beyala's Tu t'appelleras tanga / Sigrid G. Köhler ; Male feminist fiction: literary subversions of a gender-biased script / Monica Bungaro -- Queered bodies: between the arches of queer desire and race: representing bisexual bodies in the Rainbow Nation / Cheryl Stobie ; Queer inclinations and representations: Dambudzo Marechera and Zimbabwean literature / Drew Shaw ; versions of yearning and dissent: the troping of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga / Elleke Boehmer ; The emerging lesbian in Nigerian feminist literature / Unoma N. Azuah ; African cinema and representations of (homo)sexuality / Alexie Tcheuyap -- Tainted bodies: Boundless whiteness? feminism and white women in the mirror of African feminist writing / Susan Arndt ; Altered surfaces: the Ambi Generation of Yvonne Vera's Without a name and Butterfly burning / Jessica Hemmings ; Dark anatomies in Arthur Nortje's poetry / Sarah Nuttall ; Forbidden bodies: relocation and empowerment in Williams Sassine's novels / Alioune Sow -- Violated bodies: From the horse's mouth: the politics of remembrance in women's writing on the Nigerian Civil War / Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo ; Nigerian war literature by women: from civil war to gender war / Marion Pape ; Writing sexual violence: words and silences in Yvonne Vera's Under the tongue / Martina Kopr ; Reading the unspeakable: rape in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace -- Notes on contributors and editors. |
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Sex in literature -- Congresses.
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Sex in literature. |
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Human body in literature -- Congresses.
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Human body in literature. |
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African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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African literature. |
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20th century |
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Homosexuality in literature -- Congresses.
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Homosexuality in literature. |
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Feminism in literature -- Congresses.
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Feminism in literature. |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Veit-Wild, Flora, 1947-
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Naguschewski, Dirk.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Body, sexuality, and gender. New York, NY : Rodopi, 2005 9042016264 (OCoLC)61500596 |
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1423791258 (electronic book) |
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9781423791256 (electronic book) |
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9042016264 |
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9789042016262 |
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