Twelve best books by African women : critical readings / edited by Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi and Tuzyline Jita Allan.

• Prolepsis : Twelve telling tales by African women / Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi --?pt. 1. Reconfiguration : rewriting the script -- 1. Modernity, gender, and agency in Ama Ata Aidoo's 'Anowa' / Nana Wilson-Tagoe -- 2. Charting the nation/charting history : the power of language in Assia Djebar's 'Fantasia: an Algerian cavalcade' / Nada Halloway --?pt. 2. Waves of resistance : the casualties of difference -- 3. Nawal El Saadawi's 'Woman at point zero' within the context of Arab feminist discourse / Amira Nowaira -- 4. Nadine Gordimer's 'Burger's daughter' : consciousness, identity, and autonomy / Nobantu L. Rasebotsa --?5. Dreams of (dis)order : competing visions of colonial Nigeria in Buchi Emecheta's 'The joys of motherhood' / Tuzyline Jita Allan -- 6. In the pauses of the historian's narrative : Yvonne Vera's 'Butterfly burning' / V.M. (Sisi) Maqagi -- pt. 3. Regeneration : labor pains and tentative steps toward independence -- 7. Mapping a female mind : Bessie Head's 'A question of power' and the unscrambling of Africa / Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi -- 8. A drama of power : Aminata Sow Fall's 'The beggars' strike' / Chioma Opara -- 9. Aesthetics, ethics, desire, and necessity in Mariama Ba's 'So long a letter' / Modupe Olaogun -- 10. Reading masculinities in a feminist text : Tsitsi Dangarembga's 'Nervous conditions' / Helen Nabasuta Mugambi -- 11. Sindiwe Magona : writing, remembering, selfhood, and community in 'Living, loving, and lying awake at night' / M.J. Daymond -- 12. Every choice is a renunciation : cultural landmarks in Ken Bugul's 'Riwan ou le chemin de sable' / Aissata Sidikou -- Coda. African women's writing, prospectively / Tuzyline Jita Allan.

Ämnesord

Kvinnor i litteraturen  (sao)

Kvinnliga författare  (sao)

Afrikansk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Women in literature.  (LCSH)

African fiction  -- Women authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Women and literature  -- Africa -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Litteraturvetenskap  (kao)

Författare  -- Afrika -- 1900-talet -- sekelskiftet 2000 (kao)

Kvinnor och litteratur  -- historia -- Afrika (sao)

Women authors  (LCSH)

Women in literature  (LCSH)

Africa  -- In literature. (LCSH)

Personnamn

Magona, Sindiwe, 1943-

Aidoo, Ama Ata, 1942-2023

Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015

Saʻdāwī, Nawāl, 1931-2021

Gordimer, Nadine, 1923-2014

Emecheta, Buchi.

Vera, Yvonne, 1964-2005

Head, Bessie, 1937-1986

Sow Fall, Aminata, 1941-

Bâ, Mariama, 1929-1981

Dangarembga, Tsitsi

Bugul, Ken, 1948-

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Gxp.0972 Litteraturhistoria: afrikanska språk: kvinnolitteratur

Klassifikation

PN849.A35 (LCC)

823/.91099287 (DDC)

Gxp.0972 (kssb/8)