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This book covers a variety of women's issues from different parts of the world. It also expresses various themes of oppression, marginalization, sexism, gender, and emancipation of women, showing that women's problems are the same no matter where they reside.
List of contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword.
Nawal El Saadawi
Introduction.
Blessing Diala-Ogamba and Elaine Sykes
Section I. Exploitation, Exclusion, and Quest for Selfhood
Chapter 1. Sexual and Gender Based Violence in African Women's Writings: A Textual Study of Literary Works by Female African Writers
Juliana Daniels
Chapter 2. Dangarembga'sTambudzaiSigauke: The Education of an African Girl
Mary Jane Androne
Chapter 3. The Politics of Exclusion and the Response of El Saadawi's Women
Iniobong Uko
Section II. Gender, Patriarchy, and Marginalization
Chapter 4. Breaking the Silence, Writing the Body
Elena Garces de Eder
Chapter 5. On Their Own Terms: Renegotiating Patriarchal Laws According to Farah's Ebla and El Saadawi's Firdaus
Blessing Diala-Ogamba
Chapter 6. Women at Point Zero: Oedipal Determinationin Adichie'sPurple Hibiscus, Aidoo's Changes and Naylor's The Women at Brewster Place
Solomon Azumurana
Section III. Masculinity and Gender Identity
Chapter 7. Faces of Cleopatra
Gabriela Vlahovici-Jones
Chapter 8. Decadent Space: Women, Language and Crime in Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People
Chioma Opara
Chapter 9. Two Views on Female Characters in Eje Meji, A Yoruba Movie
Bayo Omolola
Section IV. Motherhood and Love
Chapter 10. Restaging Motherhood in African Literature: A Study of Selected Texts
Irene Salami-Agunloye
Chapter 11. Grass Splitting Stone: Suffering and the Return to Love
Sidney Krome
Chapter 12. A Call for Change: Liberation as Motif in Alice Childress's A Hero Ain't Nothing but a Sandwich
Romanus Muoneke
Contributors
Index
About the author
Blessing Diala-Ogamba is associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, and coordinator of the World Literature Program at Coppin State University.
Elaine Sykes is assistant professor of English in the Department of Humanities, Coppin State University.
Summary
This book covers a variety of women's issues from different parts of the world. It also expresses various themes of oppression, marginalization, sexism, gender, and emancipation of women, showing that women's problems are the same no matter where they reside.
