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- African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
- Series: Women in Africa and the Diaspora
summary
African Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women’s strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal narratives, testimony, interviews, short stories, poetry, performance scripts, folktales, and lyrics. Thematically organized, it presents women’s writing on such issues as intertribal and interethnic conflicts, the degradation of the environment, polygamy, domestic abuse, the controversial traditional practice of female genital cutting, Sharia law, intergenerational tensions, and emigration and exile.
Contributors include internationally recognized authors and activists such as Wangari Maathai and Nawal El Saadawi, as well as a host of vibrant new voices from all over the African continent and from the African diaspora. Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection provides an excellent introduction to contemporary African women’s literature and highlights social issues that are particular to Africa but are also of worldwide concern. It is an essential reference for students of African studies, world literature, anthropology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and women’s studies.
Contributors include internationally recognized authors and activists such as Wangari Maathai and Nawal El Saadawi, as well as a host of vibrant new voices from all over the African continent and from the African diaspora. Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection provides an excellent introduction to contemporary African women’s literature and highlights social issues that are particular to Africa but are also of worldwide concern. It is an essential reference for students of African studies, world literature, anthropology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and women’s studies.
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Table of Contents
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- Preface: Roots of the Collection
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xviii
- Part 1. Engaging with Tradition
- The Day When God Changed His Mind
- pp. 15-21
- The Old Woman
- pp. 22-26
- Woman Weep No More
- pp. 43-49
- Letters to My Cousin
- pp. 50-58
- Story of Faith
- pp. 59-74
- My Name Is Kasha
- pp. 90-92
- Cosmo Africa and Other Poems
- pp. 93-95
- Hailstones on Zamfara
- pp. 104-117
- The Good Woman
- pp. 118-130
- They Came in the Morning
- pp. 140-148
- Tell Me Why: Two Poems
- pp. 171-173
- Surviving Me
- pp. 174-191
- Slow Poison
- pp. 198-209
- Just Keep Talking: Two Poems
- pp. 210-211
- Tell Me a Lie
- pp. 212-213
- Prayers and Meditation Heal Despair
- pp. 214-217
- Excerpt from Biography of Ash
- pp. 228-234
- Part 6. Writing from a Different Place: Perspectives on Exile and Diaspora
- Knowing Your Place
- pp. 281-284
- Letter to Clara
- pp. 285-291
- Part 7. Standing at the Edge of Time: African Women’s Visions of the Past, Present, and Future
- Liberation
- pp. 313-314
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- pp. 315-325
- Contributors
- pp. 327-337
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299236632
Related ISBN(s)
9780299236649
MARC Record
OCLC
858859233
Pages
359
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2010