Literary Crossroads: An International Exploration of Women, Gender, and Otherhood
Editat de Blessing Diala-Ogamba, Elaine Sykes Cuvânt înainte de Nawal El-Saadawi Contribuţii de Mary Jane Androne, Solomon Omatsola Azumurana, Juliana Daniels, Elena Garces de Eder, Sidney Krome, Romanus Muoneke, Bayo Omolola, Chioma Opara, Irene Agunloye, Iniobong Uko, Gabriela Vlahovici-Jonesen Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 noi 2014
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781498502078
ISBN-10: 1498502075
Pagini: 182
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 161 x 236 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1498502075
Pagini: 182
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 161 x 236 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword.
Nawal El Saadawi
Introduction.
Blessing Diala-Ogamba and Elaine Sykes
Section I. Exploitation, Exclusion, and Quest for Selfhood
Chapter 1. Sexual and Gender Based Violence in African Women's Writings: A Textual Study of Literary Works by Female African Writers
Juliana Daniels
Chapter 2. Dangarembga'sTambudzaiSigauke: The Education of an African Girl
Mary Jane Androne
Chapter 3. The Politics of Exclusion and the Response of El Saadawi's Women
Iniobong Uko
Section II. Gender, Patriarchy, and Marginalization
Chapter 4. Breaking the Silence, Writing the Body
Elena Garces de Eder
Chapter 5. On Their Own Terms: Renegotiating Patriarchal Laws According to Farah's Ebla and El Saadawi's Firdaus
Blessing Diala-Ogamba
Chapter 6. Women at Point Zero: Oedipal Determinationin Adichie'sPurple Hibiscus, Aidoo's Changes and Naylor's The Women at Brewster Place
Solomon Azumurana
Section III. Masculinity and Gender Identity
Chapter 7. Faces of Cleopatra
Gabriela Vlahovici-Jones
Chapter 8. Decadent Space: Women, Language and Crime in Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People
Chioma Opara
Chapter 9. Two Views on Female Characters in Eje Meji, A Yoruba Movie
Bayo Omolola
Section IV. Motherhood and Love
Chapter 10. Restaging Motherhood in African Literature: A Study of Selected Texts
Irene Salami-Agunloye
Chapter 11. Grass Splitting Stone: Suffering and the Return to Love
Sidney Krome
Chapter 12. A Call for Change: Liberation as Motif in Alice Childress's A Hero Ain't Nothing but aSandwich
Romanus Muoneke
Contributors
Index
Foreword.
Nawal El Saadawi
Introduction.
Blessing Diala-Ogamba and Elaine Sykes
Section I. Exploitation, Exclusion, and Quest for Selfhood
Chapter 1. Sexual and Gender Based Violence in African Women's Writings: A Textual Study of Literary Works by Female African Writers
Juliana Daniels
Chapter 2. Dangarembga'sTambudzaiSigauke: The Education of an African Girl
Mary Jane Androne
Chapter 3. The Politics of Exclusion and the Response of El Saadawi's Women
Iniobong Uko
Section II. Gender, Patriarchy, and Marginalization
Chapter 4. Breaking the Silence, Writing the Body
Elena Garces de Eder
Chapter 5. On Their Own Terms: Renegotiating Patriarchal Laws According to Farah's Ebla and El Saadawi's Firdaus
Blessing Diala-Ogamba
Chapter 6. Women at Point Zero: Oedipal Determinationin Adichie'sPurple Hibiscus, Aidoo's Changes and Naylor's The Women at Brewster Place
Solomon Azumurana
Section III. Masculinity and Gender Identity
Chapter 7. Faces of Cleopatra
Gabriela Vlahovici-Jones
Chapter 8. Decadent Space: Women, Language and Crime in Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People
Chioma Opara
Chapter 9. Two Views on Female Characters in Eje Meji, A Yoruba Movie
Bayo Omolola
Section IV. Motherhood and Love
Chapter 10. Restaging Motherhood in African Literature: A Study of Selected Texts
Irene Salami-Agunloye
Chapter 11. Grass Splitting Stone: Suffering and the Return to Love
Sidney Krome
Chapter 12. A Call for Change: Liberation as Motif in Alice Childress's A Hero Ain't Nothing but aSandwich
Romanus Muoneke
Contributors
Index
Recenzii
Literary Crossroads is an important addition to the burgeoning body of criticism on African (and African-diaspora) women writers of fiction and film.