Nwanyibu : woman being & African literature /
edited by Phanue l Akubueze Egejuru and Ketu H. Katrak.
- 1st Africa World Press, Inc. ed.
- Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 1997.
- 168 p. ; 23 cm.
- Annual selected papers of the ALA, no. 1 1093-2976 ; .
"17th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association held at L oyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana, from March 20 to 23, 1991"- -P. [1].
Includes bibliographical references.
The paradox of womanbeing and the female principle in Igbo cosmology / Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru -- A reading of Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa / N. Jane Opoku-Agyemang -- Female perspectives in African literature / Emma nuel Obiechina -- Female choices, the militant option in Buchi Emecheta 's Destination Biafra and Alice Walker's Meridian / Pauline Ada Uwakweh -- Beyond femaleness, Beryl Markham, Africa's adopted daughter in West with the wind / Mary A. McCay -- The dynamics of power in Mudimbe's Be fore the birth of the moon / Janice Spleth -- The battlefield of politi cs and selfhood in Bessie Head's A question of power / Natasha Vaubel - - Black women writers, English fiction in a new South Africa / Elizabet h Taylor -- Zoe Wicomb's You can't get lost in Cape Town, "A new clean Voice" / Carol Sicherman -- From La Noire de... to Milk and Honey, Port raits of the alienated African woman / Janis L. Pallister -- Sow Fall, Sembene, Achebe and Senghor, literary representations of political real ities / Hal Wylie -- Anti-colonialist and womanist discourse in the wor ks of Jamaica Kincaid and Simone Schwwarz-Bart / Gerise Herndon.
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African literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Cong resses. African literature -- History and criticism -- 20th century -- Congr esses. Women and literature -- Africa -- Congresses. Women in literature -- Congresses. Womanism in literature -- Congresses.