TY - BOOK AU - Newell, Stephanie TI - Writing African women : : gender, popular culture, and literature in West Africa SN - 9781786990105 U1 - 820.992870966 W939 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ : PB - Zed Books KW - West African literature (English) KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - Male authors KW - Women and literature KW - Africa, West N1 - 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 ER -