The politics of (m)othering: womanhood, identity and resistance in African literature
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TextPublication details: London Routledge 1997Description: xv, 233pISBN: 041513790XContained works: Nnaemeka, Obioma, edSubject(s): Mothers in literature | African literature-History and criticism | Feminism and literature | LiteratureDDC classification: 809.8896 Summary: This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mother tongue, mother wit, 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.
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Includes index.
This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mother tongue, mother wit, 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.
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