New women's writing in African literature : a review
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New women's writing in African literature : a review
（African literature today / edited by Eldred D. Jones, 24）
James Currey , Africa World Press, 2004
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The rapid upsurge of writing by African women has been one of the most dynamic, phenomenal trends of African literature at the end of the twentieth century.
African women writers have come a long way since the 1960s when they were hardly acknowledged or noticed as serious writers. In the past four decades their works have been steadily rising in quantity and quality. Today these writers are seriously redefining images of womanhood, providing new visions, and reshaping erstwhile distorted characterizations of African women in fiction.
ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana StudiesUniversity of Michigan-Flint.
North America: Africa World Press; Nigeria: HEBN
Table of Contents
Editorial - To trans-emote a cosmos: Yvonne Vera's holistic feminist vision in Butterfly Burning by Chimalum Nwankwo - Season of desert flowers: contemporary women's poetry from Northern Nigeria by Aderemi Raji-Oyelade - Calixthe Beyala rebels against female oppression by Tunde Fatunde - Representations of the womanist discourse in the short fiction of Akachi Ezigbo & Chinwe Okechukwu by Ijeoma Nwajiaku - From liminality to centrality: Kekelwa Nyanya's Hearthstones by Monica Bungaro - Ken Bugul's Le Boabab fou: a female story about a female body by Ada Uzoamuka Azoda - Submit or kill yourself...your two choices: options for wives in African women's fiction by Helen Cousins - Exile & identity in Buchi Emecheta's The New Tribe by Clement A. Okafor - A failed sexual rebellion: the case of Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa by Iniobong I. Uko - Space within & space without: a reading of Zaynab Alkali's The Still Born by Hannah Ngozi Chukwu - Usurpation & the umbilical victim in Zulu Sofola's King Emene by Azubike Iloeje - Reviews section
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