Writing African Women Writing African Women
African Culture Archive

Writing African Women

Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa

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Beschreibung des Verlags

How does our understanding of Africa shift when we begin from the perspective of women? What can the African perspective offer theories of culture and of gender difference?



This work, as unique and insightful today as when it was first published, brings together a wide variety of African academics and other researchers to explore the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender. Beginning with a ground-breaking overview of African gender theory, the book goes on to analyse women's writing, uncovering the ways different writers have approached issues of female creativity and colonial history, as well as the ways in which they have subverted popular stereotypes around African women. The contributors also explore the related gender dynamics of mask performance and oral story-telling.



This major analysis of gender in popular and postcolonial cultural production remains essential reading for students and academics in women's studies, cultural studies and literature.

GENRE
Sachbücher
ERSCHIENEN
2017
15. Juni
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
216
Seiten
VERLAG
Zed Books
GRÖSSE
803
 kB
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