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The Politics of (M)Othering Obioma Nnaemeka

The Politics of (M)Othering By Obioma Nnaemeka

The Politics of (M)Othering by Obioma Nnaemeka


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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.

The Politics of (M)Othering Summary

The Politics of (M)Othering: Womanhood, Identity and Resistance in African Literature by Obioma Nnaemeka

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. Whilst the volume stands as a sustained feminist analysis, it engages feminist theory itself by showing how issues in feminism are, in African literature, recast in different and complex ways.

The Politics of (M)Othering Reviews

'The volume moves from one compelling analysis to another ... it makes a refreshing change from the many recent 'African women's writing' anthologies, where literary critics tend to trawl through a now familar canon of women's novels. - Wasafiri

Table of Contents

Dedication, Acknowledgements, Obioma Nnaemeka Introduction: Imag(in)ing Knowledge, Power, and Subversion in the Margins Trinh T. Minh-ha Mother's Talk Charles Sugnet Nervous Conditions: Dangarembga's Feminist Reinvention of Fanon Ousseynou B. Traor'e Why the Snake-Lizard Killed His Mother: Inscribing and Decentering "Nneka" in Things Fall Apart, Peter Hitchcock The Eye and the Other: The Gaze and the Look in Egyptian Feminist Fiction Uzo Esonwanne Enlightenment Epistemology and "Aesthetic Cognition": Mariama B^a's So Long a Letter Julianan Nfah-Abbenyi Calixthe Beyala's "femme-fillette": Womanhood and the Politics of (M)Othering Cynthia Ward Bound to Matter: The Father's Pen and Mother Tongues Celeste Fraser Delgado Mother Tongues and Childless Women: The Construction of "Kenyan" "Womanhood" Huma Ibrahim Ontological Victimhood: "Other Bodies in Madness and Exile", Toward a Third World Feminist Epistemology Obioma Nnaemeka Urban Spaces, Woman's Places: Polygamy as Sign in Mariama B^a's Novels Ren'ee Larrier Reconstructing Motherhood: Francophone, African Women Autobiographers Fran,coise Lionnet Geographies of Pain: Captive Bodies and Violent Acts in the fictions of Gayl Jones, Bessie Head and Myriam Warner-Vieyra, Contributors

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GOR004074939
9780415137904
041513790X
The Politics of (M)Othering: Womanhood, Identity and Resistance in African Literature by Obioma Nnaemeka
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1996-12-12
256
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