Privately empowered : expressing feminism in Islam in northern Nigerian fiction /

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Privately Empowered responds to the lack of adequate attention paid to Islam in Africa in comparison to the Middle East and the Arab world. Shirin Edwin points to the embrace between Islam and politics that has limited Islamic feminist discourse to regions where it evolves in tandem with the nation-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Edwin, Shirin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
Temas:
Nigerian fiction (English) > History and criticism.
Muslim women in literature.
Feminism > Religious aspects > Islam.
Islam > Nigeria.
Roman nigérian (anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Musulmanes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
Feminism > Religious aspects > Islam
Islam
Literature
Muslim women in literature
Nigerian fiction (English)
Nigeria > In literature.
Nigeria
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Conjugating feminisms: African, Islamic as African-Islamic discourse
  • Connecting vocabularies: a grammar of histories, politics, and priorities in African and Islamic feminisms
  • Noetic education and Islamic faith: personal transformation in the stillborn
  • Historical templates and Islamic disposition: personal journeys in the virtuous woman
  • Spiritual legacies and worship: personal spaces in the descendants
  • Frequent functions and references: personal solutions in sacred apples and destiny.

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