African women narrating identity : local and global journeys of the self /: local and global journeys of the self. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rose A. Sackeyfio.
• Authors: Sackeyfio, Rose A
• Contents: Part I: Feminist Perspectives from the African Continent Introduction: Literary Herstories of African Women’s Lives 1: Radical Feminist Synergy and Sexual Exploitation in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero and God Dies by the Nile 2: Caste, Class, and Women’s Identity in Bessie Head’s Maru 3: Sisters of the Soil: Women’s Resistance in Muthoni Likimani’s Passbook Number F. 47927 4: Postcolonial Disjunctures and Urban Spaces in Amma Darko’s Faceless Part II: Voices from the Diaspora in African Women’s Fiction 5: Unveiling Women’s Identities in the African Muslim Diaspora in Leila Aboulela’s Translator and Minaret 6: Ruptured Spaces of the Self in We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo 7: Black Venus Dreams and the Migrant Body in Igiaba Scego’s Adua 8: Afropolitan Energies in the 21st Century: Immigrants, Dreamers, and Marginalized Others in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Conclusion: Narrating African Women’s Lives in Africa and the Diaspora
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (216 pages)
• Subjects: 823.0099287; African fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism; African fiction (English) -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Africa -- History -- 20th century; Women and literature -- Africa -- History -- 21st century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000917130; 9781000917109
• Related ISBNs: 9781032395388
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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