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This unique book brings together a wide variety of African academics and other researchers to explore the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender. The first part looks at African gender theory. The book then goes to on analyse women's writing, uncovering the ways in which different writers have approached, appropriated and subverted issues of female creativity, stereotypes of 'African Women' and colonial history. Part three looks at the interaction of sexual politics, polemics and popular culture, including explorations of the gender dynamics of mask performance and oral story-telling. This major analysis of gender in popular and postcolonial cultural production is essential reading for students and academics in women's studies, cultural studies and literature.

African literature --- Aufsatzsammlung. --- Authorship --- Culture populaire --- Frauenliteratur. --- Intellectual life. --- Literature. --- Littérature africaine de langue anglaise --- Littérature africaine --- Popular culture --- Popular culture. --- Sex role in literature. --- West African literature (English) --- Women and literature --- Women and literature. --- Women in literature. --- Women --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Sex differences. --- Femmes écrivains --- Histoire et critique. --- Male authors --- Women authors. --- Social conditions --- Africa, West --- Africa, West. --- Westafrika. --- In literature.