Susan Z Andrade

The Nation Writ Small

African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988

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Produktbeschreibung

Challenging the notion that Africas first women novelists were uninterested in postcolonial politics, Susan Z. Andrade shows that in their allegorical fiction, the family stood for the nation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2011
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780822348979
• ISBN-10: 0822348977
• Artikelnr.: 33622608

Autorenporträt

Susan Z. Andrade is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and the co-editor of Atlantic Cross-Currents/Transatlantiques (Africa World Press, 2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. The Joys of Daughterhood: Achebe, Nwapa, Emecheta 44
2. The Loved and the Left: Sembne, Bâ, Sow Fall 71
3. Bildung in Formation and Deformation: Dangarembga and Farah 114
4. Bildung at Its Boundaries: Djebar, Two Ways 165
Conclusion 202
Selected Chronology of African Novels 209
Notes 213
References 239
Index 253