Women Writing Africa Volume 1: the Southern Region

Name: Women Writing Africa Volume 1: the Southern Region
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ISBN: 9781558614079

ISBN-10: 1558614079

ISBN-13: 9781558614079

Edition: 2003

Authors: M. J. Daymond, Dorothy Driver, Sheila Meintjes, Gloria Naylor

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This book brings together over 120 selections by women in six countries of southern Africa, in English and in translation from over 20 different languages, ranging from wedding songs and work songs to letters, prison diaries, poetry, memoirs, and recent testimony before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The famous are here (Doris Lessing, Sindiwe Magona, and more), but most of the voices are new, and they open up worlds too long excluded from the history books. The authoritative, readable introductory notes to each selection provide essential background and biography, but whether the context is the German genocide of the Herero people during WW I or today's AIDS epidemic…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Publication date: 9/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English