Writing African women : gender, popular culture, and literature in West Africa / edited by Stephanie Newell

Contributor(s):

Newell, Stephanie [editor]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Zed Books, 2017Description: x, 204 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

9781786990105

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DDC classification:

23 820.992870966 W939

Contents:

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.

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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.

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