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Female Subjectivities in African Literature.
In literature the ambiguous portraiture of female characters by some male writers and the phallic nature of men's writings have proved a matter of concern to female writers in Africa. For decades within African writing the issue of silencing was interrogated particularly as it addressed the mut...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Handel Books,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction
- The New Female Subjectivities; Chapter 1
- Silencing the Abusers; Head's ""Collector of Treasures"" (1977); mariama Ba's So Long a Letter (1980); Yvonne Vera's Under the Tongue (1997); Neshani Andreas'Purple Violet of Oshaantu (2001); Sindiwe Magoma's Beauty's Gift (2008); Chapter 2
- Subjectivity in the ""Eye"" of Morrison; Subjectivity and Identity in The Bluest Eye; The Imaginary Other: the stage of mirroring others; The Symbolic Other; Chapter 3
- Rotimi's Drama and the Gender Issue; II; III; IV.
- Chapter 4
- Rethinking the African Woman's IdentityFeminism in Nigerian Literature; Rethinking Feminism and the African Identity; Onwueme's Feminism in Tell it to Women; The Social Context of African Feminine Identity; Chapter 5
- The Conflicts of Fall and Osammar; Chapter 6
- The Women of Ousmane and Dlamini; Chapter 7
- Female Subjectivity in Achebe's Novels; Chapter 8
- Female Sexuality in Bessora's Novel; Rehearsing Sexuality: Yeno vs Modeste; Normative Health and Fragmented Relations; Yeno and 'les multitudes'; Chapter 9
- Enekwe's Feminine Archetypes; The Femme Fatale; The Madonna.
- Chapter 10
- Women, Race and LiberationNotes and Bibliography; Back cover.