Literary Crossroads

An International Exploration of Women, Gender, and Otherhood

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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This book explores the different ways women have been liberating themselves from the shackles of patriarchy and cultural laws that inhibit their independence and freedom to show that women are also contributing meaningfully to society. Women have worked to attain freedom through speaking out, writing memoirs, fiction, plays, poetry, and essays. The creative experiences of women are captured in this book, thus fulfilling the book's aim to give women voices to air their views and show that they are effectual members of society. The book examines the roles played by patriarchy, religion, and socioeconomic and political systems that keep women to the background. It also examines the issue of education, otherhood, marginalization, cultural imposition, and the diverse positions of women in local and international affairs. The book testifies that women's literature, and the stories of women all over the world, can be appreciated and viewed from different perspectives because of the diverse cultural environment in which women find themselves. This confirms that the issue of marginalization, suppression, and oppression of women are on-going problems in different societies around the world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-11-06
Mått161 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt435 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor182
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
MedarbetareSaadawi,NawalEl
ISBN9781498502078

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TABLE OF CONTENTSForeword.Nawal El SaadawiIntroduction.Blessing Diala-Ogamba and Elaine SykesSection I. Exploitation, Exclusion, and Quest for SelfhoodChapter 1. Sexual and Gender Based Violence in African Women’s Writings: A Textual Study of Literary Works by Female African WritersJuliana DanielsChapter 2. Dangarembga’sTambudzaiSigauke: The Education of an African Girl Mary Jane AndroneChapter 3. The Politics of Exclusion and the Response of El Saadawi’s Women Iniobong UkoSection II. Gender, Patriarchy, and MarginalizationChapter 4. Breaking the Silence, Writing the BodyElena Garces de EderChapter 5. On Their Own Terms: Renegotiating Patriarchal Laws According to Farah’s Ebla and El Saadawi’s FirdausBlessing Diala-OgambaChapter 6. Women at Point Zero: Oedipal Determinationin Adichie’sPurple Hibiscus, Aidoo’s Changes and Naylor’s The Women at Brewster PlaceSolomon AzumuranaSection III. Masculinity and Gender IdentityChapter 7. Faces of CleopatraGabriela Vlahovici-JonesChapter 8. Decadent Space: Women, Language and Crime in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the PeopleChioma OparaChapter 9. Two Views on Female Characters in Eje Meji, A Yoruba Movie Bayo OmololaSection IV. Motherhood and LoveChapter 10. Restaging Motherhood in African Literature: A Study of Selected TextsIrene Salami-AgunloyeChapter 11. Grass Splitting Stone: Suffering and the Return to Love Sidney KromeChapter 12. A Call for Change: Liberation as Motif in Alice Childress’s A Hero Ain’t Nothing but aSandwichRomanus MuonekeContributorsIndex