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Contemporary African literature and the politics of gender / Florence Stratton.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: London : Routledge, 1994Description: viii, 200 s. 23cmISBN:
  • 0415097703
  • 0415097711
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.8896082 20
  • 809.8896082 20
Contents:
Introduction: Exclusionary practices -- I. Aspects of the male literary tradition. -- 1. How Could Things Fall Apart for Whom They Were Not Together? -- 2. The Mother Africa Trope --?II. Room for women. -- 3. Men Fall Apart: Grace Ogot's novels and short stories. -- 4. Flora Nwapa and the Female Novel of Development. -- 5. 'Their New Sister': Buchi Emecheta and the contemporary African literary tradition. -- 6. 'Literature As A ... Weapon': The novels of Mariama Ba -- III. Men write back. -- 7. Gender on the Agenda: Novels of the 1980s by Ngugi and Achebe --?Conclusion: Redefining the African literary tradition.
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Book Högskolan Väst Övre plan / Upper floor 809.89 Stratton Available 6122350028909
Total holds: 0

Introduction: Exclusionary practices -- I. Aspects of the male literary tradition. -- 1. How Could Things Fall Apart for Whom They Were Not Together? -- 2. The Mother Africa Trope --?II. Room for women. -- 3. Men Fall Apart: Grace Ogot's novels and short stories. -- 4. Flora Nwapa and the Female Novel of Development. -- 5. 'Their New Sister': Buchi Emecheta and the contemporary African literary tradition. -- 6. 'Literature As A ... Weapon': The novels of Mariama Ba -- III. Men write back. -- 7. Gender on the Agenda: Novels of the 1980s by Ngugi and Achebe --?Conclusion: Redefining the African literary tradition.

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