Gendered violence and human rights in black world literature and film. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Naomi Nkealah, Obioma Nnaemeka.
• Editors: Nkealah, Naomi; Nnaemeka, Obioma, 1948-
• Contents: INTRODUCTION Exploring the nexus between gendered violence and human rights Obioma Nnaemeka and Naomi Nkealah PART I: THE VIOLENCE OF LANGUAGE IN GENDERED SPACES 1. The public-ation of domestic violence in Calixthe Beyala’s Le Christ selon l’Afrique Gloria Onyeoziri-Miller 2. Gendered violence and narrative erasure: Women in Athol Fugard’s Tsotsi and Gavin Hood’s Tsotsi Katwiwa Mule 3. Exploring the language of violence and human rights violation in selected Nigerian dramatic literature Olutoba Gboyega Oluwasuji 4. Women on the move: The construction of the woman migrant’s story in African cinema Kenneth W. Harrow PART II: SEXUALITIES, CULTURES AND EXCLUSIONS 5. "Putting her in her place!" Gender and sexual violence in Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come and Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives Asante Lucy Mtenje 6. Human rights in spaces of violence: Exploring the intersections of gender, violence and lesbian sexuality in selected African fiction by women Jessica Murray 7. Gender, disruption and reconciliation in the Ugandan short fiction of Beatrice Lamwaka Sally Ann Murray PART III: SUBVERTING STORIES OF WAR 8. Women and violence on the Algerian screen: Documenting les années noires in Yasmina Bachir-Chouikh’s Rachida and Djamila Sahraoui’s Barakat! (Enough!) Valérie K. Orlando 9. "A strange combination of femininity and menace": Re-thinking the figure of the female soldier in Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchard of Lost Souls Lynda Gichanda Spencer 10. Domestic violence in China Keitetsi’s Child Soldier Tomi Adeaga 11. Gendered spaces and war: Fighting and narrating the Nigeria-Biafra war Obioma Nnaemeka PART IV: RE-READING TRAUMA AND DEHUMANISATION 12. Politics, narrative, and subjectivities in Fanta Régina Nacro’s The Night of Truth Frank Ukadike 13. Crime, punishment, and retribution: The politics of sisterhood interrupted in Marie-Elena John’s Unburnable Jennifer Thorington Springer 14. Male violence, the state and the dehumanisation of women in three South African novels by women Naomi Nkealah 15. "Here comes the dress": Daily resistance in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker Mercedez L. Thompson
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.8896; Literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism; African literature -- History and criticism; Motion pictures, African -- History and criticism; Motion pictures -- Africa; Human rights in literature; Human rights in motion pictures; Violence in literature; Violence in motion pictures; Sex discrimination in literature; Sex discrimination in motion pictures
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000367775; 9781000367768; 9780429354236
• Related ISBNs: 9780367369491
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