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245 00 $aWriting African women :$bgender, popular culture and literature in West Africa /$cedited by Stephanie Newell ; with a new foreword by Wendy Griswold.
246 30 $aGender, popular culture and literature in West Africa
264 1 $aLondon :$bZed Books,$c2017.
264 4 $c©1997
300 $axii, 204 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aAfrican Culture Archive
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aReading towards a theorization of African women's writing: African women writers within feminist gynocriticism / Nana Wilson-Tagoe -- Masculinity: the military, women and cultural politics in Nigeria / Bayo Ogunjimi -- Women's role in Ghana's social development / Akosua Gyamfuaa-Fofie -- A life on the women's page: Treena Kwenta's diary / Jane Bryce -- Recovering lost voices: the short stories of Mabel Dove-Danquah / Naana Jane Opuku-Agyemang.
505 0 $aRewriting popular myths of female subordination: selected stories by Theodora Adimora-Ezeigbo and May Ifeoma Nwoye / Chinyere Grace Okafor -- Gender conflict in Flora Nwapa's novels / Theodora Akachi Ezeigbo -- Culture and gender semantics in Flora Nwapa's poetry / Obododimma Oha -- Behind the veil in northern Nigeria: the writing of Zaynab Alkali and Hauwa Ali / Margaret Hauwa Kassam -- The onus of womanhood: Mariama Bâ and Zaynab Alkali / Ibiyemi Mojola.
505 0 $aNarrative technique and the politics of gender: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy and No sweetness here / Chioma Opara -- Hausa women as oral storytellers in northern Nigeria / Sani Abba Aliyu -- Gender politics in West African mask performance / Chinyere Grace Okafor -- Anatomy of masculine power: three perspectives on marriage and gender in Nigerian non-fiction / Stephanie Newell -- Gender tempered through metal: women in metal-casting in Benin City, Nigeria / Adepeju Layiwola.
520 $aThis unique book brings together a wide variety of African academics and other researchers to explore the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender. The first part looks at African gender theory. The book then goes to on analyse women's writing, uncovering the ways in which different writers have approached, appropriated and subverted issues of female creativity, stereotypes of 'African Women' and colonial history. Part three looks at the interaction of sexual politics, polemics and popular culture, including explorations of the gender dynamics of mask performance and oral story-telling. This major analysis of gender in popular and postcolonial cultural production is essential reading for students and academics in women's studies, cultural studies and literature.
650 0 $aWest African literature (English)$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aWest African literature (English)$xMale authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zAfrica, West.
650 0 $aPopular culture$zAfrica, West.
651 0 $aAfrica, West$xIntellectual life.
651 0 $aAfrica, West$xIn literature.
650 0 $aAuthorship$xSex differences.
650 0 $aSex role in literature.
650 0 $aWomen in literature.
650 7 $aAfrican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.$2blmlsh
650 7 $aWomen$zAfrica$xSocial conditions.$2blmlsh
650 7 $aFrauenliteratur$2gnd
651 7 $aWestafrika$2gnd
650 7 $aLittérature africaine$xFemmes écrivains$xHistoire et critique.$2ram
650 7 $aLittérature africaine de langue anglaise$xFemmes écrivains$xHistoire et critique.$2ram
650 7 $aCulture populaire$zAfrique.$2ram
650 7 $aAufsatzsammlung$2gnd
655 4 $aAufsatzsammlung.
700 1 $aNewell, Stephanie,$d1968-$eeditor.
700 1 $aGriswold, Wendy,$eauthor of foreword.
830 0 $aAfrican culture archive.
852 00 $bafst$hPR9340.5$i.W74 2017g