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Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa

Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa

Newell, Stephanie
Griswold, Wendy

Hardcover

Series: African Culture Archive

Literary CriticismGeneral Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1786990695
ISBN13: 9781786990693
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jun 15 2017
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

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.

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