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New women's writing in African literature
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ISBN: 9780852555248 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford : Trenton : James Currey ; Africa world press,

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African women writers have come a long way from the sixties 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. 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.


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New daughters of Africa
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ISBN: 9781912408016 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oxford : Myriad Editions,

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This major new international anthology celebrates the work of women of African descent, captures their continuing contributions, and charts a contemporary literary landscape as never before.A glorious portrayal of the richness and range of the singular and combined accomplishments of more than 200 contributors, New Daughters of Africa showcases their global sweep, diversity and achievements while also testifying to a wealth of genres: autobiography, memoir, letters, short stories, novels, poetry, drama, humour, journalism, essays and speeches.Following up Margaret Busby’s landmark 1992 anthology Daughters of Africa, this companion volume brings together the words of writers from across the globe—Antigua to Zimbabwe, Angola to the USA—to honour a unifying heritage while showing the remarkable range of creativity from the African diaspora particularly in the past 25 years. Arranged chronologically, New Daughters of Africa illustrates an uplifting sense of sisterhood and the links that endure from generation to generation, as well as common obstacles writers still negotiate around issues of race, gender and class.


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Les romancières du continent noir : anthologie
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ISBN: 2218058286 Year: 1994 Publisher: Paris : Hatier,


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Madness in black women's diasporic fictions : aesthetics of resistance
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ISBN: 9783319581262 Year: 2017 Publisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave MacMillan,

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This collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers from Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Moving from an over-reliance on the “madwoman” as a romanticized figure constructed in opposition to the status quo, contributors to this volume examine how black women authors use madness, trauma, mental illness, and psychopathology as a refraction of cultural contradictions, psychosocial fissures, and political tensions of the larger social systems in which their diverse literary works are set through a cultural studies approach.The volume is constructed in three sections: Revisiting the Archive, Reinscribing Its Texts: Slavery and Madness as Historical Contestation, The Contradictions of Witnessing in Conflict Zones: Trauma and Testimony, and Novel Form, Mythic Space: Syncretic Rituals as Healing Balm. The novels under review re-envision the initial trauma of slavery and imperialism, both acknowledging the impact of these events on diasporic populations and expanding the discourse beyond that framework. Through madness and healing as sites of psychic return, these novels become contemporary parables of cultural resistance. Offers a set of new critical approaches to understanding the figures of madness as the concept moves across literary and cultural traditions in the African Diasporic world. Applies literary and cultural analyses to audiences engaged with understandings of psychological wellness, social justice, race, and gender. Connects existing sociological work to literary understandings of madness via differing sites of geographic migration.

In their own voices : African women writers talk
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ISBN: 0852555075 0435080431 Year: 1990 Publisher: London : Portsmouth, N.H. : J. Currey Heinemann,

La Main
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ISBN: 2738422055 Year: 1993 Volume: 4 Publisher: Paris : L'Harmattan,

Femmes rebelles : naissance d'un nouveau roman africain au féminin
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ISBN: 2738438598 Year: 1996 Publisher: Paris : Editions L'Harmattan,

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