The politics of (m)othering : womanhood, identity, and resistance in African literature / edited 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.
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| Other title: | Politics of mothering. Politics of othering. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1997.
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| Series: | Opening out.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.