The Twelve Best Books by African Women - Critical Readings

Informationen zum Autor Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi! professor of literature and the founding chair of global studies! is currently faculty emerita! Sarah Lawrence College. Her publications include Juju Fission: Women's Alternative Fictions from the Sahara! the Kalahari! and the Oases In-between and Africa Wo/Man Palava: The Nigerian Novel by Women. Tuzyline Jita Allan teaches at Baruch College! City University of New York. She is the author of the award-winning book Womanist and Feminist Aesthetics: A Comparative Review: coeditor of Literature Around the Globe; and editor of Teaching African Literatures in Global Economy! a special edition of Women's Studies Quarterly. Klappentext The Twelve Best Books by African Women is a collection of critical essays on eleven works of fiction and one play, an important but belated affirmation of women writers on the continent and a first step toward establishing a recognized canon of African women's literature. "This is an important work for those interested in gender studies and literature, specifically those who wish to learn more about African women's representation of themselves and their realities."-- "African Studies Quarterly" Zusammenfassung The Twelve Best Books by African Women is a collection of critical essays on eleven works of fiction and one play, an important but belated affirmation of women writers on the continent and a first step toward establishing a recognized canon of African women’s literature.

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• Authors: Tuzyline Jita Allan, Chikwene Okonjo Ogunyemi, Chikwene Okonjo (EDT)/ Allan Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
• Assisted by: Tuzyline Jita Allan (Editor), Chikwene Okonjo Ogunyemi (Editor)
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2009
• EAN: 9780896802667
• ISBN: 978-0-89680-266-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Ohio University Research in In; Ohio RIS Africa Series; Research in International Studies, Africa Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies