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Journal articles on the topic "African literature; Feminist"

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Du Plessis, J. W., and D. H. Steenberg. "Uit die oogpunt van ’n vrou? Perspektief op feministiese literêre kritiek in die kader van die Airikaanse prosa." Literator 12, no. 3 (1991): 71–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v12i3.781.

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Feminists feel that in literary criticism not enough consideration is given to feminism as an ideology in the production of texts. According to them, existing literary criticism is strongly man-centred. This is especially true of the practice of South African literary criticism. Although feminism does not have at its disposal a formulated feminist literary criticism, a great deal of research has been done in this direction abroad. This is especially the case in Europe and America. Feminist literary critics apply themselves to the representation of the woman in works by male authors and an anal

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Nwanna, Clifford. "Dialectics of African Feminism A Study of the Women's Group in Awka (the Land of Blacksmiths)." Matatu 40, no. 1 (2012): 275–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-040001019.

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There appears to be a lack of interest from researchers on African art, on feminist related issues. Their researches are devoted to other aspects of African art. This situation has created a gap in both African art and African gender studies. The present essay interrogates the socio-economic and political position of women in Africa from a feminist theoretical viewpoint. Here, the formation and the activities of the women group in Awka was used as a case study, to foreground the fact that feminism is not alien to Africa; rather it has existed in Africa since the ancient times. The women group

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Zerai, Assata, Joanna Perez, and Chenyi Wang. "A Proposal for Expanding Endarkened Transnational Feminist Praxis." Qualitative Inquiry 23, no. 2 (2016): 107–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800416660577.

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Western researchers often do not incorporate the voices of African women in their research endeavors; and a serious engagement in women’s health activism in Zimbabwe cannot happen without this preliminary step. Endarkened feminist epistemologies have theorized a social science that refuses to sidestep African women’s perspectives. As a corrective to conceptual quarantining of Black (African and African diasporic) feminist thought, the exciting body of literature in the field broadly characterized as Africana feminism has helped to legitimate the languages, discourses, challenges, unique perspe

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Naidoo, Salachi. "Re-thinking the feminist agenda in selected female authored Zimbabwean literature." DANDE Journal of Social Sciences and Communication 2, no. 2 (2018): 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.15641/dande.v2i2.51.

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This article investigates the feminist agenda in female authored Zimbabwean literature, with emphasis on the novel. It focuses largely on Virginia Phiri's Destiny and Highway Queen as well as Violet Masilo's The African Tea Cosy. The paper argues that Zimbabwean female authorship is flavoured with precepts of African feminism(s) in its representations of African women's agency in gender adversities. Framed within African feminism, women's agency derives from and gives meaning to an inescapable African-ness that needs to be accepted in the fight for emancipation. In light of this, the study ana

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Thielmann, Pia. "The Dynamics of African Feminism: Defining and Classifying African Feminist Literatures (review)." Research in African Literatures 36, no. 2 (2005): 156–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0135.

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Gordon, Natasha M. "“Tonguing the Body”: Placing Female Circumcision within African Feminist Discourse." Issue: A Journal of Opinion 25, no. 2 (1997): 24–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047160700502662.

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This paper focuses primarily on current debates regarding the place of female circumcision in Third World and western feminist discourse. In examining these debates, I will also draw from its fictional and autobiographical depictions as presented and discussed in contemporary African literature. While female circumcision (FC) is not practiced solely in Africa, I will be limiting my analysis to the effects of the practice within the continent. The paper is divided into three sections. Part one places the discussion on FC within current feminist discourse. Part two provides a historical and cult

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Caraivan, Luiza. "Constructing Womanhood in Zimbabwean Literature: Noviolet Bulawayo and Petina Gappah." Gender Studies 18, no. 1 (2019): 58–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/genst-2020-0005.

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Abstract Literature written in English in the former British colonies of Southern Africa has attracted the public’s attention after the publication of Michael Chapman’s “Southern African Literaturesˮ (1996). The paper analyses the writings of two Zimbabwean authors - NoViolet Bulawayo (Elizabeth Zandile Tshele) and Petina Gappah – taking into account African feminist discourses.

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Makaudze, Godwin. "African Leadership in Children's Literature: Illustrations from the Shona Ngano (Folktale) Genre." International Research in Children's Literature 13, no. 2 (2020): 321–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2020.0361.

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Feminist scholarship sees African society as traditionally patriarchal, while the colonists saw traditional African leadership as lacking in values such as democracy, tolerance, and accountability, until these were imposed by Europeans. Using Afrocentricity as a theoretical basis, this article examines African leadership as portrayed in the Shona ngano [folktale] genre and concludes that, in fact, leadership was neither age- nor gender-specific and was democratic, tolerant, and accountable. It recommends further research into African oral traditions as a way of arriving at more positive images

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Thielmann, Pia. "BOOK REVIEW:Susan Arndt. THE DYNAMICS OF AFRICAN FEMINISM: DEFINING AND CLASSIFYING AFRICAN FEMINIST LITERATURES. Trenton, NJ: Africa World P, 2002." Research in African Literatures 36, no. 2 (2005): 156–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2005.36.2.156.

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Decker, Alicia C. "What Does a Feminist Curiosity Bring to African Military History?" Journal of African Military History 1, no. 1-2 (2017): 93–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24680966-00101006.

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This essay uses feminist scholarship to engender African military history. It begins by examining the ways in which gender has—or has not—been integrated into African military history over the last ten years. Next, it analyzes some of the most influential feminist scholarship on gender and militarism in Africa today. Although most of this literature has not been produced by historians, it has much to teach us about how gender can be critically interrogated within our own work. The penultimate section considers the importance of cultivating a feminist curiosity and discusses what this type of c

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African literature; Feminist"

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Koziatek, Zuzanna Ewelina. " Formal Affective Strategies in Contemporary African Diasporic Feminist Texts ." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1621007445234777.

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Spriggs, Bianca L. "Women of the Apocalypse: Afrospeculative Feminist Novelists." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/56.

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“Women of the Apocalypse: Feminist Afrospeculative Writers,” seeks to address the problematic ‘Exodus narrative,’ a convention that has helped shape Black American liberation politics dating back to the writings of Phyllis Wheatley. Novels by Zora Neale Hurston, Octavia Butler, and Alice Walker undermine and complicate this narrative by challenging the trope of a single charismatic male leader who leads an entire race to a utopic promised land. For these writers, the Exodus narrative is unsustainable for a number of reasons, not the least of which is because there is no room for women to opera

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Mekgwe, Pinkie Tlotlego. "Femmeninism : a stutter or a starter? gender constructions and male feminist politics in African literature." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249108.

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Gress, Priti Chitnis. "Tar Baby and the Black Feminist Literary Tradition." W&M ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626111.

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Sougou, Omar. "A critical study of Buchi Emecheta's fiction 1972-1989." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318909.

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This thesis proposes to study comprehensively the contribution of Buchi Emecheta to African literature and to the debate over feminism and African and black women. Chapters one and two are a background to the investigation of Emecheta's fiction. They examine the work of selected African female and male novelists in order to assess the representation of he African woman in the novel and her role and place in a changing society. The writings of women are considered in relation to women's priorities and the orientation of the African novel itself. The notion of protest as a rhetorical device is c

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Mtuze, Peter Tshobiso. "A feminist critique of the image of woman in the prose works of selected Xhosa writers (1909 - 1980)." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23636.

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The study examines, from a feminist point of view, the stereotypic image of woman in Xhosa prose fiction from pre-literate times to the era of written literature (1909 - 1980). Attaching feminist critical theory to conventional literary characterisation gives this pioneering study a human dime,n sion that is bound to rejuvenate traditional critical appredation and highlight the tremendous power of art to reflect or parallel real-life experiences. Consequently, the study transcends the confines of traditional literary criticism. It throws interdisciplinary light on the African feminist dilemma

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Hinton-Johnson, KaaVonia Mechelle. "Expanding the power of literature African American literary theory & young adult literature /." Columbus, OH : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1054833658.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 175 p. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Caroline Clark, College of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-175).

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Jones, Claire. "An Intersectional Feminist Perspective of Emmett Till in Young Adult Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3413.

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Emmett Till’s murder inspired many novelists, poets, and artists. Recently, Till has inspired several feminist young adult novelists who are introducing his case in an intersectional way to a new generation of readers. The works that I have studied are A Wreath for Emmett Till (2003) by Marilyn Nelson, The Hunger Games Trilogy (2008-2010) by Suzanne Collins, and Midnight without a Moon (2017) by Linda Jackson. By examining how the authors employ a feminist perspective, readers can understand how they are striving for a more inclusive, intersectional feminist movement. This is significant becau

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Capelli, Amanda M. "The (Un)Balanced Canon| Re-Visioning Feminist Conceptions of Madness and Transgression." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10686919.

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<p> By re-positioning the works of Elaine Showalter, Phyllis Chesler, Sandra Gilbert, and Susan Gubar alongside Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston, reading the literary texts through the feminist theories in order to expand them, this dissertation aims to contribute to an intersectional feminist practice that challenges claims of universality and continues to decolonize the female body and mind. Through an intersectional analysis of narratives written by women of color, applying and re-visioning theories of madness and transgression, this dissertation will present a coun

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Dodgson-Katiyo, Pauline. "Gender, history and trauma in Zimbabwean and other African literatures." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2015. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/582336/.

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Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this research explores Zimbabwean literary and other cultural texts within the broader context of the construction of identities and the politics of inclusion and exclusion in nationalist and oppositional discourses. It also analyzes two texts by major non-Zimbabwean African writers to examine the thematic links between Zimbabwean and other African writing. Through combining historical, anthropological and political approaches with postcolonial, postmodern and feminist critical theories, the thesis explores the ways in which African writing and performance

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Books on the topic "African literature; Feminist"

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The dynamics of African feminism: Defining and classifying African-feminist literatures. Africa World Press, 2002.

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Arndt, Susan. The dynamics of African feminism: Defining and classifying African-feminist literatures. Africa World Press, 2003.

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African feminist fiction and indigenous values. University Press of Florida, 2001.

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Ranveer, Kashinath. Black feminist consciousness. Printwell, 1995.

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Onyemelukwe, I. M. Colonial, feminist and postcolonial discourses: Decolonisation and globalisation of African literature. Labelle Educational Publishers, 2004.

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Black women novelists' contribution to contemporary feminine [i.e. feminist] discourse. E. Mellen Press, 2003.

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Barbara, Christian. New Black feminist criticism, 1985-2000. University of Illinois Press, 2007.

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Not just race, not just gender: Black feminist readings. Routledge, 1998.

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Kulkarni, Harihar. Black feminist fiction: A march towards liberation. Creative Books, 1999.

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Harrow, Kenneth W. Less than one and double: A feminist reading of African women's writing. Heinemann, 2002.

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Book chapters on the topic "African literature; Feminist"

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Eze, Chielozona. "Feminism as Fairness." In Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature. Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40922-1_2.

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Camara, Samba. "Negotiating a Feminist Musical Language in a Twenty First Century Senegalese Muslim Society." In African Languages and Literatures in the 21st Century. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23479-9_10.

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"Nnu Ego on the Verge of Feminist Consciousness: Feminist Stylistics and Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood." In Style in African Literature. Brill | Rodopi, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401207553_007.

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"2. Fools and Victims. Adapting Rationalized Rape into Feminist Film." In African Film and Literature. Columbia University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/dove14754-005.

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Patterson, Robert J. "African American feminist theories and literary criticism." In The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ccol9780521858885.006.

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Lewis, Simon. "Shades of Feminist Nationalism in Recent Zimbabwean and South African Fiction." In British and African Literature in Transnational Context. University Press of Florida, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813036021.003.0008.

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"Inheriting Terror: South African Women, Post-Apartheid Fictions, and Queer Politics." In Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315757087-13.

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Warner, Tobias. "How Mariama Bâ Became World Literature: Translation and the Legibility of Feminist Critique." In The Tongue-Tied Imagination. Fordham University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823284634.003.0007.

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How did Mariama Bâ’s 1979 novel Une si longue lettre[So Long a Letter] become one of the most widely read, taught, and translated African texts of the twentieth century? This chapter examines how prize committees, translators, editors, and critics all shaped how the Senegalese author’s work became recognizable to a global audience. Bâ’s success came to be bound up with two interpretations of her work: first, that her novel was a broadside against the institution of polygamy in Senegal; and, second, that it was a celebration of the self-fashioning powers of literary culture. This chapter rejects both these accounts, arguing instead that these ways of framing the novel reveal the terms through which postcolonial literatures become legible as world literature. The conversion of Lettreinto world literature is contrasted with its vernacular appropriation by the contemporary Wolof novelist Maam Yunus Dieng, who translates and rewrites this iconic text.

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Ramírez, Dixa. "Dominican Women’s Refracted African Diasporas." In Colonial Phantoms. NYU Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479850457.003.0005.

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This chapter engages the creative and anti-hegemonic apertures that become possible from a diasporic space and imaginary by analyzing the cultural expressions, including literature, music, and performance, of several diasporic Dominican women. Building on black diasporic feminist theory, the chapter explores how diasporic Dominicans engage with, adopt, or refuse definitions of blackness as they predominate in the U.S. through the writings of Chiqui Vicioso and the performances of musical artists Amara la Negra and Maluca Mala. Because they all resist to some extent the white supremacist and patriarchal ideologies that govern dominant paradigms throughout the hemisphere, the chapter locates improper behavior as the primary vehicle in which these artists invert and/or refuse the gendered, classed, and raced scripts expected from Dominican women. Together, these diasporic subjects (in the sense of the Dominican and the African diaspora) evince the prismatic nature of the African Diaspora.

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Chiweshe, Manase Kudzai. "More Than Body Parts." In Handbook of Research on Women's Issues and Rights in the Developing World. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3018-3.ch011.

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This paper questions the reduction of human experience and identity to anatomical determinism in which the category of ‘woman' or ‘man' becomes a universal concept. Through a review of literature on African gender, feminist and masculinity studies, it highlights how people are more than their body parts. It notes how identities are shaped by an intersectionality of various factors such as education, employment status, class, age, physical condition, nationality, citizenship, race and ethnicity. These factors can be spatial and temporal producing differing experiences of gendered lives. African scholars have built up a rich collection of work that repudiates the univerlisation of gender identities based on Western philosophical schools of thought. This work explores in detail current and historical debates in African gender studies.

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