Politics of Mothering Womanhood, Identity and Resistance in African Literature

Name: Politics of Mothering Womanhood, Identity and Resistance in African Literature
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ISBN: 9780415137898

ISBN-10: 0415137896

ISBN-13: 9780415137898

Edition: 1996

Authors: Obioma Nnaemeka

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A feminist study that interrogates feminist theorizing,The Politics of (M)Otheringcalls into question the validity of the traditional/modern prototype in analysis of African Literature. This volume examines the many faces of "Mother" in African works--motherland, mother tongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering--that expose the paradoxical location of (m)other as both a central and peripheral "other". On many levels, the essays in this volume problematize the issue of "victim" as it is articulated by a feminist voice. Though this volume stands as a feminist analysis of African Literature, it engages in feminist theory itself by demonstrating how issues in feminism such as voice, agency,…

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List price: $135.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/6/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Dedication


Acknowledgements



Introduction: Imag(in)ing Knowledge, Power, and Subversion in the Margins



Mother's Talk Charles Sugnet Nervous Conditions: Dangarembga's Feminist Reinvention of Fanon



Traor'e Why the Snake-Lizard Killed His Mother: Inscribing and Decentering "Nneka" in Things Fall Apart



The Eye and the Other: The Gaze and the Look in Egyptian Feminist Fiction



Enlightenment Epistemology and "Aesthetic Cognition": Mariama B^a's So Long a Letter



Nfah-Abbenyi Calixthe Beyala's "femme-fillette": Womanhood and the Politics of (M)Othering Cynthia Ward Bound to Matter: The Father's Pen and Mother Tongues



Mother Tongues and Childless Women: The Construction of "Kenyan" "Womanhood" Huma Ibrahim Ontological Victimhood: "Other Bodies in Madness and Exile"


Toward a Third World Feminist Epistemology



Urban Spaces, Woman's Places: Polygamy as Sign in Mariama B^a's Novels Ren'ee Larrier Reconstructing Motherhood: Francophone


African Women Autobiographers Fran,coise Lionnet Geographies of Pain: Captive Bodies and Violent Acts in the fictions of Gayl Jones


Bessie Head and Myriam Warner-Vieyra


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