This book examines the complexities of women's lives in Africa, Europe and North America through the literary works of key African women writers. Unlike existing works on this topic, this book uncovers the transformation from postcolonial themes of nationhood to global modalities of post-independence writing through the lens of gender.
This book examines the complexities of women's lives in Africa, Europe and North America through the literary works of key African women writers. Unlike existing works on this topic, this book uncovers the transformation from postcolonial themes of nationhood to global modalities of post-independence writing through the lens of gender.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Rose A. Sackeyfio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Liberal Studies at Winston-Salem State University, USA. She is also the author of West African Women in the Diaspora (Routledge 2021), and editor of African Women Writing Diaspora, (Lexington 2021) and Co-Editor of Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora- Ezeigbo (Lexington 2017).
Inhaltsangabe
Part I: Feminist Perspectives from the African Continent Introduction: Literary Herstories of African Women's Lives 1: Radical Feminist Synergy and Sexual Exploitation in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero and God Dies by the Nile 2: Caste, Class, and Women's Identity in Bessie Head's Maru 3: Sisters of the Soil: Women's Resistance in Muthoni Likimani's Passbook Number F. 47927 4: Postcolonial Disjunctures and Urban Spaces in Amma Darko's Faceless Part II: Voices from the Diaspora in African Women's Fiction 5: Unveiling Women's Identities in the African Muslim Diaspora in Leila Aboulela's Translator and Minaret 6: Ruptured Spaces of the Self in We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo 7: Black Venus Dreams and the Migrant Body in Igiaba Scego's Adua 8: Afropolitan Energies in the 21st Century: Immigrants, Dreamers, and Marginalized Others in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Conclusion: Narrating African Women's Lives in Africa and the Diaspora
Part I: Feminist Perspectives from the African Continent Introduction: Literary Herstories of African Women's Lives 1: Radical Feminist Synergy and Sexual Exploitation in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero and God Dies by the Nile 2: Caste, Class, and Women's Identity in Bessie Head's Maru 3: Sisters of the Soil: Women's Resistance in Muthoni Likimani's Passbook Number F. 47927 4: Postcolonial Disjunctures and Urban Spaces in Amma Darko's Faceless Part II: Voices from the Diaspora in African Women's Fiction 5: Unveiling Women's Identities in the African Muslim Diaspora in Leila Aboulela's Translator and Minaret 6: Ruptured Spaces of the Self in We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo 7: Black Venus Dreams and the Migrant Body in Igiaba Scego's Adua 8: Afropolitan Energies in the 21st Century: Immigrants, Dreamers, and Marginalized Others in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Conclusion: Narrating African Women's Lives in Africa and the Diaspora
Part I: Feminist Perspectives from the African Continent Introduction: Literary Herstories of African Women's Lives 1: Radical Feminist Synergy and Sexual Exploitation in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero and God Dies by the Nile 2: Caste, Class, and Women's Identity in Bessie Head's Maru 3: Sisters of the Soil: Women's Resistance in Muthoni Likimani's Passbook Number F. 47927 4: Postcolonial Disjunctures and Urban Spaces in Amma Darko's Faceless Part II: Voices from the Diaspora in African Women's Fiction 5: Unveiling Women's Identities in the African Muslim Diaspora in Leila Aboulela's Translator and Minaret 6: Ruptured Spaces of the Self in We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo 7: Black Venus Dreams and the Migrant Body in Igiaba Scego's Adua 8: Afropolitan Energies in the 21st Century: Immigrants, Dreamers, and Marginalized Others in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Conclusion: Narrating African Women's Lives in Africa and the Diaspora
Part I: Feminist Perspectives from the African Continent Introduction: Literary Herstories of African Women's Lives 1: Radical Feminist Synergy and Sexual Exploitation in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero and God Dies by the Nile 2: Caste, Class, and Women's Identity in Bessie Head's Maru 3: Sisters of the Soil: Women's Resistance in Muthoni Likimani's Passbook Number F. 47927 4: Postcolonial Disjunctures and Urban Spaces in Amma Darko's Faceless Part II: Voices from the Diaspora in African Women's Fiction 5: Unveiling Women's Identities in the African Muslim Diaspora in Leila Aboulela's Translator and Minaret 6: Ruptured Spaces of the Self in We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo 7: Black Venus Dreams and the Migrant Body in Igiaba Scego's Adua 8: Afropolitan Energies in the 21st Century: Immigrants, Dreamers, and Marginalized Others in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Conclusion: Narrating African Women's Lives in Africa and the Diaspora
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