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Gender in African Women's Writing

Identity, Sexuality, and Difference

By: Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi

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Gender in African Women's Writing

Identity, Sexuality, and Difference

By: Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi

This is a cogent analysis of the complexities of gender in the work of nine contemporary Anglophone and Francophone novelists. . . . offers illuminating interpretations of worthy writers . . . " —Multicultural Review "This book reaffirms Bessie Head's remark that books are a tool, in this case a tool that allows readers to understand better the rich lives and the condition of African women. Excellent notes and a rich bibliography." —Choice ". . . a college-level analysis which will appeal to any interested in African studies and literature." —The Bookwatch This book applies gender as a category of analysis to the works of nine sub-Saharan women writers: Aidoo, Bá, Beyala, Dangarembga, Emecheta, Head, Liking, Tlali, and Zanga Tsogo. The author appropriates western feminist theories of gender in an African literary context, and in the process, she finds and names critical theory that is African, indigenous, self-determining, which she then melds with western feminist theory and comes out with an over-arching theory that enriches western, post-colonial and African critical perspectives.

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Indiana University Press

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Identity, Sexuality, and Difference

By: Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi

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Your Madness, Not Mine

Stories of Cameroon

By: Juliana Makuchi Abbenyi-Nfah

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Your Madness, Not Mine

Stories of Cameroon

By: Juliana Makuchi Abbenyi-Nfah

Women’s writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by the minority status her people occupy within the nation-state. The stories in Your Madness, Not Mine are about postcolonial Cameroon, but especially about Cameroonian women, who probe their day-to-day experiences of survival and empowerment as they deal with gender oppression: from patriarchal expectations to the malaise of maldevelopment, unemployment, and the attraction of the West for young Cameroonians. Makuchi has given us powerful portraits of the people of postcolonial Africa in the so-called global village who too often go unseen and unheard.

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Ohio University Press

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0896804356

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Stories of Cameroon

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Gender in African Women's Writing

Gender in African Women's Writing

Gender in African Women's Writing

Gender in African Women's Writing

Your Madness, Not Mine

Your Madness, Not Mine

Your Madness, Not Mine

Your Madness, Not Mine

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