Susan Z Andrade

The Nation Writ Small

African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988

• Gebundenes Buch

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.

Produktdetails

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

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