Florence Stratton

Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this radical and exciting work Florence Stratton outlines the features of an emerging female tradition in African fiction and dedicates a chapter each to the works of four women writers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781138148918
• ISBN-10: 1138148911
• Artikelnr.: 69944457

Autorenporträt

Florence Stratton received a Ph.D. in African Literature from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She taught literature at Njala University College in Sierra Leone for nineteen years and is currently at the Catholic Worker in New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION: Exclusionary practices
I Aspects of the male literary tradition
1 HOW COULD THINGS FALL APART FOR WHOM THEY WERE NOT TOGETHER?
2 THE MOTHER AFRICA TROPE
II Room for women
3 MEN FALL APART: Grace Ogot's novels and short stories
4 FLORA NWAPA AND THE FEMALE NOVEL OF DEVELOPMENT
5 'THEIR NEW SISTER': Buchi Emecheta and the contemporary African literary tradition
6 'LITERATURE AS A ... WEAPON': The novels of Mariama Ba
III Men write back
7 GENDER ON THE AGENDA: Novels of the 1980s by Ngiigi and Achebe
CONCLUSION: Redefining the African literary tradition
Notes
Bibliography
Index.