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Society, women and literature in Africa /

Society, Women and Literature in Africa explores the ideological, literary, political, cultural and ethical issues related to feminist writing. She discusses how contemporary African writers have tried to counteract men's false assumptions about sex, love, society, fecundity and womanhood, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Orabueze, F. O. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Port Harcourt, Nigeria : M & J Grand Orbit Communications Ltd., [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Foreword
  • 1. The ugly face of Ghana in the new millennium : alienation of children in Amma Darko's Faceless
  • 2. Womanhood as a metaphor for sexual slavery in Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at point zero
  • 3. Our endangered values : the challenges of parenthood in the 21st century in Chukwuemeka Ike's Our children are coming! and Bode Osanyin's The noble mistress
  • 4. Women's cross-cultural burden in the selected works of some West African female writers
  • 5. Gendered social division of labour in the African novel
  • 6. The prison world of the Nigerian woman : an aspect of gender silences in Sefi Atta's Everything Good will come
  • 7. The theme of dispossession in A.N. Akwanya's Pilgrim foot
  • 8. Prostitution : a metaphor for the degradation of womanhood in Bode Osanyin's The noble mistress.