Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Black World Literature and Film
Herausgeber: Nkealah, Naomi; Nnaemeka, Obioma
Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Black World Literature and Film
Herausgeber: Nkealah, Naomi; Nnaemeka, Obioma
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This book uses the lens of African and diasporic literature and film to explore how the practice of gendered violence breaches the human rights of people, especially women, children and minority groups.
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This book uses the lens of African and diasporic literature and film to explore how the practice of gendered violence breaches the human rights of people, especially women, children and minority groups.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
- Seitenzahl: 260
- Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2021
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 562g
- ISBN-13: 9780367369491
- ISBN-10: 0367369494
- Artikelnr.: 69939464
- Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
- Seitenzahl: 260
- Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2021
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 562g
- ISBN-13: 9780367369491
- ISBN-10: 0367369494
- Artikelnr.: 69939464
Naomi Nkealah is a Lecturer in English in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Obioma Nnaemeka is Chancellor's Professor of French, Africana Studies and Women's/Gender Studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA. She is the President of the Association of African Women Scholars and CEO of the Jessie Obidiegwu Education Fund that is dedicated to the education of girls in Africa.
INTRODUCTION Exploring the nexus between gendered violence and human rights
Obioma Nnaemeka and Naomi Nkealah PART I: THE VIOLENCE OF LANGUAGE IN
GENDERED SPACES 1. The public-ation of domestic violence in Calixthe
Beyala's Le Christ selon l'Afrique Gloria Onyeoziri-Miller 2. Gendered
violence and narrative erasure: Women in Athol Fugard's Tsotsi and Gavin
Hood's Tsotsi Katwiwa Mule 3. Exploring the language of violence and human
rights violation in selected Nigerian dramatic literature Olutoba Gboyega
Oluwasuji 4. Women on the move: The construction of the woman migrant's
story in African cinema Kenneth W. Harrow PART II: SEXUALITIES, CULTURES
AND EXCLUSIONS 5. "Putting her in her place!" Gender and sexual violence in
Sefi Atta's Everything Good Will Come and Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives
of Baba Segi's Wives Asante Lucy Mtenje 6. Human rights in spaces of
violence: Exploring the intersections of gender, violence and lesbian
sexuality in selected African fiction by women Jessica Murray 7. Gender,
disruption and reconciliation in the Ugandan short fiction of Beatrice
Lamwaka Sally Ann Murray PART III: SUBVERTING STORIES OF WAR 8. Women and
violence on the Algerian screen: Documenting les années noires in Yasmina
Bachir-Chouikh's Rachida and Djamila Sahraoui's Barakat! (Enough!) Valérie
K. Orlando 9. "A strange combination of femininity and menace": Re-thinking
the figure of the female soldier in Nadifa Mohamed's The Orchard of Lost
Souls Lynda Gichanda Spencer 10. Domestic violence in China Keitetsi's
Child Soldier Tomi Adeaga 11. Gendered spaces and war: Fighting and
narrating the Nigeria-Biafra war Obioma Nnaemeka PART IV: RE-READING TRAUMA
AND DEHUMANISATION 12. Politics, narrative, and subjectivities in Fanta
Régina Nacro's The Night of Truth Frank Ukadike 13. Crime, punishment, and
retribution: The politics of sisterhood interrupted in Marie-Elena John's
Unburnable Jennifer Thorington Springer 14. Male violence, the state and
the dehumanisation of women in three South African novels by women Naomi
Nkealah 15. "Here comes the dress": Daily resistance in Edwidge Danticat's
The Dew Breaker Mercedez L. Thompson
Obioma Nnaemeka and Naomi Nkealah PART I: THE VIOLENCE OF LANGUAGE IN
GENDERED SPACES 1. The public-ation of domestic violence in Calixthe
Beyala's Le Christ selon l'Afrique Gloria Onyeoziri-Miller 2. Gendered
violence and narrative erasure: Women in Athol Fugard's Tsotsi and Gavin
Hood's Tsotsi Katwiwa Mule 3. Exploring the language of violence and human
rights violation in selected Nigerian dramatic literature Olutoba Gboyega
Oluwasuji 4. Women on the move: The construction of the woman migrant's
story in African cinema Kenneth W. Harrow PART II: SEXUALITIES, CULTURES
AND EXCLUSIONS 5. "Putting her in her place!" Gender and sexual violence in
Sefi Atta's Everything Good Will Come and Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives
of Baba Segi's Wives Asante Lucy Mtenje 6. Human rights in spaces of
violence: Exploring the intersections of gender, violence and lesbian
sexuality in selected African fiction by women Jessica Murray 7. Gender,
disruption and reconciliation in the Ugandan short fiction of Beatrice
Lamwaka Sally Ann Murray PART III: SUBVERTING STORIES OF WAR 8. Women and
violence on the Algerian screen: Documenting les années noires in Yasmina
Bachir-Chouikh's Rachida and Djamila Sahraoui's Barakat! (Enough!) Valérie
K. Orlando 9. "A strange combination of femininity and menace": Re-thinking
the figure of the female soldier in Nadifa Mohamed's The Orchard of Lost
Souls Lynda Gichanda Spencer 10. Domestic violence in China Keitetsi's
Child Soldier Tomi Adeaga 11. Gendered spaces and war: Fighting and
narrating the Nigeria-Biafra war Obioma Nnaemeka PART IV: RE-READING TRAUMA
AND DEHUMANISATION 12. Politics, narrative, and subjectivities in Fanta
Régina Nacro's The Night of Truth Frank Ukadike 13. Crime, punishment, and
retribution: The politics of sisterhood interrupted in Marie-Elena John's
Unburnable Jennifer Thorington Springer 14. Male violence, the state and
the dehumanisation of women in three South African novels by women Naomi
Nkealah 15. "Here comes the dress": Daily resistance in Edwidge Danticat's
The Dew Breaker Mercedez L. Thompson
INTRODUCTION Exploring the nexus between gendered violence and human rights
Obioma Nnaemeka and Naomi Nkealah PART I: THE VIOLENCE OF LANGUAGE IN
GENDERED SPACES 1. The public-ation of domestic violence in Calixthe
Beyala's Le Christ selon l'Afrique Gloria Onyeoziri-Miller 2. Gendered
violence and narrative erasure: Women in Athol Fugard's Tsotsi and Gavin
Hood's Tsotsi Katwiwa Mule 3. Exploring the language of violence and human
rights violation in selected Nigerian dramatic literature Olutoba Gboyega
Oluwasuji 4. Women on the move: The construction of the woman migrant's
story in African cinema Kenneth W. Harrow PART II: SEXUALITIES, CULTURES
AND EXCLUSIONS 5. "Putting her in her place!" Gender and sexual violence in
Sefi Atta's Everything Good Will Come and Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives
of Baba Segi's Wives Asante Lucy Mtenje 6. Human rights in spaces of
violence: Exploring the intersections of gender, violence and lesbian
sexuality in selected African fiction by women Jessica Murray 7. Gender,
disruption and reconciliation in the Ugandan short fiction of Beatrice
Lamwaka Sally Ann Murray PART III: SUBVERTING STORIES OF WAR 8. Women and
violence on the Algerian screen: Documenting les années noires in Yasmina
Bachir-Chouikh's Rachida and Djamila Sahraoui's Barakat! (Enough!) Valérie
K. Orlando 9. "A strange combination of femininity and menace": Re-thinking
the figure of the female soldier in Nadifa Mohamed's The Orchard of Lost
Souls Lynda Gichanda Spencer 10. Domestic violence in China Keitetsi's
Child Soldier Tomi Adeaga 11. Gendered spaces and war: Fighting and
narrating the Nigeria-Biafra war Obioma Nnaemeka PART IV: RE-READING TRAUMA
AND DEHUMANISATION 12. Politics, narrative, and subjectivities in Fanta
Régina Nacro's The Night of Truth Frank Ukadike 13. Crime, punishment, and
retribution: The politics of sisterhood interrupted in Marie-Elena John's
Unburnable Jennifer Thorington Springer 14. Male violence, the state and
the dehumanisation of women in three South African novels by women Naomi
Nkealah 15. "Here comes the dress": Daily resistance in Edwidge Danticat's
The Dew Breaker Mercedez L. Thompson
Obioma Nnaemeka and Naomi Nkealah PART I: THE VIOLENCE OF LANGUAGE IN
GENDERED SPACES 1. The public-ation of domestic violence in Calixthe
Beyala's Le Christ selon l'Afrique Gloria Onyeoziri-Miller 2. Gendered
violence and narrative erasure: Women in Athol Fugard's Tsotsi and Gavin
Hood's Tsotsi Katwiwa Mule 3. Exploring the language of violence and human
rights violation in selected Nigerian dramatic literature Olutoba Gboyega
Oluwasuji 4. Women on the move: The construction of the woman migrant's
story in African cinema Kenneth W. Harrow PART II: SEXUALITIES, CULTURES
AND EXCLUSIONS 5. "Putting her in her place!" Gender and sexual violence in
Sefi Atta's Everything Good Will Come and Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives
of Baba Segi's Wives Asante Lucy Mtenje 6. Human rights in spaces of
violence: Exploring the intersections of gender, violence and lesbian
sexuality in selected African fiction by women Jessica Murray 7. Gender,
disruption and reconciliation in the Ugandan short fiction of Beatrice
Lamwaka Sally Ann Murray PART III: SUBVERTING STORIES OF WAR 8. Women and
violence on the Algerian screen: Documenting les années noires in Yasmina
Bachir-Chouikh's Rachida and Djamila Sahraoui's Barakat! (Enough!) Valérie
K. Orlando 9. "A strange combination of femininity and menace": Re-thinking
the figure of the female soldier in Nadifa Mohamed's The Orchard of Lost
Souls Lynda Gichanda Spencer 10. Domestic violence in China Keitetsi's
Child Soldier Tomi Adeaga 11. Gendered spaces and war: Fighting and
narrating the Nigeria-Biafra war Obioma Nnaemeka PART IV: RE-READING TRAUMA
AND DEHUMANISATION 12. Politics, narrative, and subjectivities in Fanta
Régina Nacro's The Night of Truth Frank Ukadike 13. Crime, punishment, and
retribution: The politics of sisterhood interrupted in Marie-Elena John's
Unburnable Jennifer Thorington Springer 14. Male violence, the state and
the dehumanisation of women in three South African novels by women Naomi
Nkealah 15. "Here comes the dress": Daily resistance in Edwidge Danticat's
The Dew Breaker Mercedez L. Thompson