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The politics of (m)othering : womanhood, identity, and resistance in African literature

Title
  1. The politics of (m)othering : womanhood, identity, and resistance in African literature / edited by Obioma Nnaemeka.
Published by
  1. London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

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Additional authors
  1. Nnaemeka, Obioma, 1948-
Description
  1. xv, 233 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Opening out
Alternative title
  1. Politics of mothering
Subject
  1. Mothers in literature
  2. African literature > History and criticism
  3. Femininity in literature
  4. Feminism and literature > Africa
  5. Politics and literature > Africa
  6. Gender identity in literature
  7. Women and literature > Africa
  8. Motherhood in literature
Contents
  1. Mother's talk / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Nervous conditions : Dangarembga's feminist reinvention of Fanon / Charles Sugnet -- Why the Snake-Lizard killed his mother : inscribing and decentering "Nneka" in Things fall apart / Ousseynou B. Traoré -- The eye and the other : the gaze and the look in Egyptian feminist fiction / Peter Hitchcock -- Enlightenment epistemology and "aesthetic cognition" : Mariama Bâ's So long a letter / Uzo Esonwanne -- Calixthe Beyala's "femme-fillette" : womanhood and the politics of (M)Othering / Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi -- Bound to matter : the father's pen and mother tongues / Cynthia Ward -- MotherTongues and childless women : the construction of "Kenyan" "womanhood" / Celeste Fraser Delgado -- Ontological victimhood : "other" bodies in madness and exile--toward a Third World feminist epistemology / Huma Ibrahim -- Urban spaces, women's places : polygamy as sign in Mariama Bâ's novels / Obioma Nnaemeka -- Reconstructing motherhood : francophone African women autobiographers / Renée Larrier -- Geographies of pain : captive bodies and violent acts in the fictions of Gayl Jones, Bessie Head, and Myriam Warner-Vieyra / Françoise Lionnet.
Call number
  1. Sc E 97-149
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title
  1. The politics of (m)othering : womanhood, identity, and resistance in African literature / edited by Obioma Nnaemeka.
Imprint
  1. London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Series
  1. Opening out
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added author
  1. Nnaemeka, Obioma, 1948-
LCCN
  1. 96020491
ISBN
  1. 0415137896
  2. 041513790X (pbk.)
Research call number
  1. Sc E 97-149
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