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In 2002, at the annual Zimbabwe International Book Fair, twelve literary books by African women were included for the first time in the category of "Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century." This was an important but belated affirmation of women writers on the continent and a first step toward establishing a recognized canon of African women's literature. The Twelve Best Books by African Women is a collection of critical essays on eleven works of fiction and one play. The titles by African women that were included in the list of "Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century" are: Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (1970); A Question of Power, Bessie Head (1974); Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El Saadawi (1975); The Beggars' Strike, Aminata Sow Fall (1979); Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer (1979); The Joys of Motherhood, Buchi Emesheta (1979); So Long a Letter, Mariama Ba虃 (1980); Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, Assia Djebar (1983); Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988); Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night, Sindiwe Magona (1991); Butterfly Burning, Yvonne Vera (1998); Riwan ou le chemin de sable, Ken Bugul (1999). This collection of original essays recognizes the gesture of inclusion as an important shift in consciousness and creates a fresh awareness of the literary works by African women writers. Each essay offers a penetrating analysis of individual texts and opens up a fresh perspective that allows scholars and students alike to explore new dimensions of these writers' work. - Publisher.
目录
Table Of Contents:
Acknowledgments, ix
Prolepsis. Twelve Telling Tales by African Women, 1
Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Part 1. Reconfiguration: Rewriting the Script
1. Modernity, Gender, and Agency in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa, 17
Nana Wilson-Tagoe
2. Charting the Nation/Charting History: The Power of Language in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, 37
Nada Halloway
Part 2. Waves of Resistance: The Casualties of Difference
3. Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero within the Context of Arab Feminist Discourse, 59
Amira Nowaira
4. Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter: Consciousness, Identity, and Autonomy, 74
Nobantu L. Rasebotsa
5. Dreams of (Dis)order: Competing Visions of Colonial Nigeria in Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, 94
Tuzyline Jita Allan
6. In the Pauses of the Historian's Narrative: Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning, 113
V.M. (Sisi) Maciagi
Part 3. Regeneration: Labor Pains and Tentative Steps toward Independence
7. Mapping a Female Mind: Bessie Head's A Question of Power and the Unscrambling of Africa, 137
Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
8. A Drama of Power: Aminata Sow Fall's The Beggars' Strike, 161
Chioma Opara
9. Aesthetics, Ethics, Desire, and Necessity in Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter, 177
Modupe Olaogun
10. Reading Masculinities in a Feminist Text: Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions, 199
Helen Nabasuta Mugambi
11. Sindiwe Magona: Writing, Remembering, Selfhood, and Community in Living, Loving, and Lying Awake at Night, 220
M.J. Daymond
12. Every Choice Is a Renunciation: Cultural Landmarks in Ken Bugul's Riwan ou le chemin de sable, 245
Aissata Sidikou
Coda. African Women's Writing, Prospectively, 266
Tuzyline Jita Allan
Notes on Contributors, 269
Index, 273
Acknowledgments, ix
Prolepsis. Twelve Telling Tales by African Women, 1
Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Part 1. Reconfiguration: Rewriting the Script
1. Modernity, Gender, and Agency in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa, 17
Nana Wilson-Tagoe
2. Charting the Nation/Charting History: The Power of Language in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, 37
Nada Halloway
Part 2. Waves of Resistance: The Casualties of Difference
3. Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero within the Context of Arab Feminist Discourse, 59
Amira Nowaira
4. Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter: Consciousness, Identity, and Autonomy, 74
Nobantu L. Rasebotsa
5. Dreams of (Dis)order: Competing Visions of Colonial Nigeria in Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood, 94
Tuzyline Jita Allan
6. In the Pauses of the Historian's Narrative: Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning, 113
V.M. (Sisi) Maciagi
Part 3. Regeneration: Labor Pains and Tentative Steps toward Independence
7. Mapping a Female Mind: Bessie Head's A Question of Power and the Unscrambling of Africa, 137
Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
8. A Drama of Power: Aminata Sow Fall's The Beggars' Strike, 161
Chioma Opara
9. Aesthetics, Ethics, Desire, and Necessity in Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter, 177
Modupe Olaogun
10. Reading Masculinities in a Feminist Text: Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions, 199
Helen Nabasuta Mugambi
11. Sindiwe Magona: Writing, Remembering, Selfhood, and Community in Living, Loving, and Lying Awake at Night, 220
M.J. Daymond
12. Every Choice Is a Renunciation: Cultural Landmarks in Ken Bugul's Riwan ou le chemin de sable, 245
Aissata Sidikou
Coda. African Women's Writing, Prospectively, 266
Tuzyline Jita Allan
Notes on Contributors, 269
Index, 273
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