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Author Zulfiqar, Sadia, author.

Title African women writers and the politics of gender / by Sadia Zulfiqar.

Publication Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 223 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary This work examines the work of a group of African women writers who have emerged over the last forty years. While figures such as Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri and Wole Soyinka are likely to be the chief focus of discussions of African writing, female authors have been at the forefront of fictional interrogations of identity formation and history. In the work of authors such as Mariama Bâ (Senegal), Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria), Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), and Leila Aboulela (Sudan), there is a clear attempt to subvert the tradition of male writing where the female.
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Subjects Bâ, Mariama -- Criticism and interpretation.
Aboulela, Leila, 1964- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Emecheta, Buchi -- Criticism and interpretation.
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Dangarembga, Tsitsi -- Criticism and interpretation.
African fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- Africa.
Feminist fiction -- History and criticism.
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ADD KEYWDS Aboulela, Leila, 1964- (OCoLC)fst01961671
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- (OCoLC)fst01911391
Bâ, Mariama. (OCoLC)fst00080084
Dangarembga, Tsitsi. (OCoLC)fst00235288
Emecheta, Buchi. (OCoLC)fst00028623
Englisch, ...
Added Keyword Gender studies: women.
Literature & literary studies.
Cultural studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Literary.
Feminist fiction.
Women and literature.
Frauenliteratur
Geschlechterrolle Motiv
Africa.
Afrika
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; When a Man Loves a Woman; "It is Immoral for a Woman to Subjugate Herself. She should be Punished -- Women at War; '"I'm Not One of Them But I'm Not One of You"; Do Muslim Women Need Saving Again?; Conclusion; Bibliography
ISBN 9781443812771
1443812773
OCLC # eMOe974916407
eMOe975454637 eMOe1162061563