Writing African women : gender, popular culture, and literature in West Africa /: gender, popular culture, and literature in West Africa. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Stephanie Newell ; with a new foreword by Wendy Griswold.
• Other Names: Newell, Stephanie, 1968-
• Contents: Part I: Theory and Politics 1. Reading Towards a Theorization of African Women's Writing: African Women Writers Within Feminist Gynocriticism - Nana Wilson-Tagoe 2. Masculinity: The Military, Women and Cultural Politics in Nigeria - Bayo Ogunjimi 3. Women's Role in Ghana's Social Development: a Short Statement - Akosua Gyamfuaa-Fofie Part II: Literatures 4. A Life on the women's Page: Treena Kwenta's Diary - Jane Bryce 5. Recovering Lost Voices: The Short Stories of Mabel - Dove-Danquah and Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang 6. Rewriting Popular Myths of Female Subordination: Selected Stories by Theodor Ezeigbo and May Ifeoma Nwoye - Chinyere Okafor 7. Gender Conflict in Flora Nwapa's Novels - Theodora Akachi Ezeigbo 8. Culture and Gender Semantics in Flora Nwapa's Poetry - Obododimma Oha 9. Behind the Veil in Northern Nigeria: The Writing of Zaynab Alkali and Hauwa Ali - Margaret Hauwa Kassam 10. The Onus of Womanhood: Mariama Bƒ and Zaynab Alkali - Ibiyemi Mojola 11. Narrative Technique and the Politics of Gender: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy and No Sweetness Here - Chioma Opara Part III: Popular Culture 12. Hausa Women as Oral Storytellers in Nigeria - Sani Abba Aliyu 13. Gender Politics in West African Mask Performance - Chinyere Grace Okafor 14. Anatomy of Masculine Power: Three Perspectives on Marriage and Gender in Nigerian Non-Fiction - Stephanie Newell 15. Gender Tempered Through Metal: Women in Metal Casting in Benin City, Nigeria - Adepeju Layiwola.
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 820.992870966; Authorship -- Sex differences; Popular culture -- Africa, West; West African literature (English) -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Africa, West -- History; Authorship -- Sex differences; Popular culture; West African literature (English); Women and literature; West Africa; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1786990075; 9781786990075
• Notes: Note: Including bibliographical references and index.
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