Writing African women :
Writing African women : gender, popular culture, and literature in West Africa /
edited by Stephanie Newell
- London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Zed Books, 2017
- x, 204 pages ; 23 cm
Reading towards a theorization of African women's writing: African women writers within feminist gynocriticism / Nana Wilson-Tagoe --
Masculinity: the military, women and cultural politics in Nigeria / Bayo Ogunjimi --
Women's role in Ghana's social development / Akosua Gyamfuaa-Fofie --
A life on the women's page: Treena Kwenta's diary / Jane Bryce --
Recovering lost voices: the short stories of Mabel Dove-Danquah / Naana Jane Opuku-Agyemang. Rewriting popular myths of female subordination: selected stories by Theodora Adimora-Ezeigbo and May Ifeoma Nwoye / Chinyere Grace Okafor --
Gender conflict in Flora Nwapa's novels / Theodora Akachi Ezeigbo --
Culture and gender semantics in Flora Nwapa's poetry / Obododimma Oha --
Behind the veil in northern Nigeria: the writing of Zaynab Alkali and Hauwa Ali / Margaret Hauwa Kassam --
The onus of womanhood: Mariama Bâ and Zaynab Alkali / Ibiyemi Mojola. Narrative technique and the politics of gender: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy and No sweetness here / Chioma Opara --
Hausa women as oral storytellers in northern Nigeria / Sani Abba Aliyu --
Gender politics in West African mask performance / Chinyere Grace Okafor --
Anatomy of masculine power: three perspectives on marriage and gender in Nigerian non-fiction / Stephanie Newell --
Gender tempered through metal: women in metal-casting in Benin City, Nigeria / Adepeju Layiwola.
9781786990105 P 18.99
West African literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism
West African literature (English)--Male authors--History and criticism
Women and literature --Africa, West
820.992870966 W939
Reading towards a theorization of African women's writing: African women writers within feminist gynocriticism / Nana Wilson-Tagoe --
Masculinity: the military, women and cultural politics in Nigeria / Bayo Ogunjimi --
Women's role in Ghana's social development / Akosua Gyamfuaa-Fofie --
A life on the women's page: Treena Kwenta's diary / Jane Bryce --
Recovering lost voices: the short stories of Mabel Dove-Danquah / Naana Jane Opuku-Agyemang. Rewriting popular myths of female subordination: selected stories by Theodora Adimora-Ezeigbo and May Ifeoma Nwoye / Chinyere Grace Okafor --
Gender conflict in Flora Nwapa's novels / Theodora Akachi Ezeigbo --
Culture and gender semantics in Flora Nwapa's poetry / Obododimma Oha --
Behind the veil in northern Nigeria: the writing of Zaynab Alkali and Hauwa Ali / Margaret Hauwa Kassam --
The onus of womanhood: Mariama Bâ and Zaynab Alkali / Ibiyemi Mojola. Narrative technique and the politics of gender: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy and No sweetness here / Chioma Opara --
Hausa women as oral storytellers in northern Nigeria / Sani Abba Aliyu --
Gender politics in West African mask performance / Chinyere Grace Okafor --
Anatomy of masculine power: three perspectives on marriage and gender in Nigerian non-fiction / Stephanie Newell --
Gender tempered through metal: women in metal-casting in Benin City, Nigeria / Adepeju Layiwola.
9781786990105 P 18.99
West African literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism
West African literature (English)--Male authors--History and criticism
Women and literature --Africa, West
820.992870966 W939