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Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women's Literature: Feminist Empathy

Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women's Literature: Feminist Empathy

Eze, Chielozona

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Series: Comparative Feminist Studies

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 3319822187
ISBN13: 9783319822181
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jul 7 2018
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book proposes feminist empathy as a model of interpretation in the works of contemporary Anglophone African women writers. The African woman's body is often portrayed as having been disabled by the patriarchal and sexist structures of society. Returning to their bodies as a point of reference, rather than the postcolonial ideology of empire, contemporaryAfrican women writers demand fairness and equality. By showing how this literature deploys imaginative shifts in perspective with women experiencing unfairness, injustice, or oppression because of their gender, Chielozona Eze argues that by considering feminist empathy, discussions open up about how this literature directly addresses the systems that put them in disadvantaged positions. This book, therefore, engages a new ethical and human rights awareness in African literary and cultural discourses, highlighting the openness to reality that is compatible with African multi-ethnic, multi-racial, and increasingly cosmopolitan communities.

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