Title:
African women writing resistance : an anthology of contemporary voices / edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Pauline Dongala, Omotayo Jolaosho ... et al.
Author:
Browdy de Hernandez, Jennifer.
Dongala, Pauline.
Jolaosho, Omotayo.
Publication Information:
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2010.
Call Number:
PL8011 .A35 2010
Abstract:
This work "is the first transnational anthology that focuses 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 new voices from all over the African continent and from the African diaspora. Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection provides an introduction to contemporary African women's literature and highlights social issues that are particular to Africa but are also of worldwide concern."--Page 4 of cover.
Electronic Access:
Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=30973
ISBN:
9780299236649
9780299236632
Series:
Women in Africa and the diaspora
Women in Africa and the diaspora.
Physical Description:
337 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
African women writing resistance : an introduction / The day when God changed his mind / The old woman / Interview with Kaya a Mbaya (Congo), a Babongo woman / Interview with Elisabeth Bouanga (Congo-Brazzaville) : remembrance of things past / Woman weep no more / Letters to my cousin / Story of faith / Lovesung for a father, with poet's note / It's not rape if ... / To be or not to be a lesbian : the dilemma of Cameroon's women soccer players / My name is Kasha / Cosmo Africa and other poems / Child / Hailstones on Zamfara / The good woman / Ngomwa / They came in the morning / The battle of the words : oratory as women's tool of resistance to the challenges of polygamy in contemporary Wolof society / Tell me why : two poems / Surviving me / The struggle to end the practice of female genital mutilation / Slow poison / Just keep talking : two poems / Tell me a lie / Prayers and meditation heal despair / A poem written in the ink of the blood shed in Rwanda, with poet's note / Biography of ash / Women's responses to state violence in the Niger Delta / Child soldier : fighting for my life / Don't get mad, get elected! A conversation with activist Wangari Maathai (Kenya) / Musings of an African woman : excerpts from a memoir in progress / A Moroccan woman in the Glocal village : reflections on Islam, identity, and cultural legacies / Knowing your place / Letter to Clara / "We are our grandmothers' dreams" : African women envision the future / Liberation
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