The politics of (m)othering : womanhood, identity, and resistance in African literature / edited by Obioma Nnaemeka.
1997
PL8010 .P57 1997eb
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Title
The politics of (m)othering : womanhood, identity, and resistance in African literature / edited by Obioma Nnaemeka.
ISBN
0203981316 (electronic bk.)
9780203981313 (electronic bk.)
1134774389
9781134774388
1280144009
9781280144004
0415137896
041513790X (pbk.)
9780415137898
9780415137904 (pbk.)
9780203981313 (electronic bk.)
1134774389
9781134774388
1280144009
9781280144004
0415137896
041513790X (pbk.)
9780415137898
9780415137904 (pbk.)
Imprint
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xv, 233 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
9786610144006
Call Number
PL8010 .P57 1997eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)179103506
Summary
This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : imag(in)ing knowledge, power, and subversion in the margins / Obioma Nnaemeka
Mother's talk / Trinh T. Minh-ha
Nervous conditions : Dangarembga's feminist reinvention of Fanon / Charles Sugnet
Why the Snake-Lizard killed his mother : inscribing and decentering "Nneka" in Things fall apart / Ousseynou B. Traoré
Eye and the other : the gaze and the look in Egyptian feminist fiction / Peter Hitchcock
Enlightenment epistemology and "aesthetic cognition" : Mariama Bâ's So long a letter / Uzo Esonwanne
Calixthe Beyala's "femme-fillette" : womanhood and the politics of (m)othering / Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
Bound to matter : the father's pen and mother tongues / Cynthia Ward
Mother tongues and childless women : the construction of "Kenyan" "womanhood" / Celeste Fraser Delgado
Ontological victimhood : "other" bodies in madness and exile : toward a Third World feminist epistemology / Huma Ibrahim
Urban spaces, women's places : polygamy as sign in Mariama Bâ's novels / Obioma Nnaemeka
Reconstructing motherhood : francophone African women autobiographers / Renée Larrier
Geographies of pain : captive bodies and violent acts in the fictions of Gayl Jones, Bessie Head, and Myriam Warner-Vieyra / Françoise Lionnet.
Mother's talk / Trinh T. Minh-ha
Nervous conditions : Dangarembga's feminist reinvention of Fanon / Charles Sugnet
Why the Snake-Lizard killed his mother : inscribing and decentering "Nneka" in Things fall apart / Ousseynou B. Traoré
Eye and the other : the gaze and the look in Egyptian feminist fiction / Peter Hitchcock
Enlightenment epistemology and "aesthetic cognition" : Mariama Bâ's So long a letter / Uzo Esonwanne
Calixthe Beyala's "femme-fillette" : womanhood and the politics of (m)othering / Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
Bound to matter : the father's pen and mother tongues / Cynthia Ward
Mother tongues and childless women : the construction of "Kenyan" "womanhood" / Celeste Fraser Delgado
Ontological victimhood : "other" bodies in madness and exile : toward a Third World feminist epistemology / Huma Ibrahim
Urban spaces, women's places : polygamy as sign in Mariama Bâ's novels / Obioma Nnaemeka
Reconstructing motherhood : francophone African women autobiographers / Renée Larrier
Geographies of pain : captive bodies and violent acts in the fictions of Gayl Jones, Bessie Head, and Myriam Warner-Vieyra / Françoise Lionnet.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. (http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212)
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Opening out.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Politics of (m)othering. London ; New York : Routledge, 1997
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