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Literary Crossroads

An International Exploration of Women, Gender, and Otherhood

von: Blessing Diala-Ogamba, Elaine Sykes, Nawal El Saadawi, Mary Jane Androne, Solomon Omatsola Azumurana, Juliana Daniels, Elena Garces de Eder, Sidney Krome, Romanus Muoneke, Bayo Omolola, Chioma Opara, Irene Agunloye, Iniobong Uko, Gabriela Vlahovici-Jones
104,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	06.11.2014
ISBN/EAN:	9781498502085
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	182

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Titelbeschreibung

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.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This book covers a variety of women's issues from different parts of the world. It also expresses various themes of oppression, marginalization, sexism, gender, and emancipation of women, showing that women's problems are the same no matter where they reside.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword. Nawal El Saadawi Introduction. Blessing Diala-Ogamba and Elaine Sykes Section I. Exploitation, Exclusion, and Quest for Selfhood Chapter 1. Sexual and Gender Based Violence in African Women’s Writings: A Textual Study of Literary Works by Female African Writers Juliana Daniels Chapter 2. Dangarembga’sTambudzaiSigauke: The Education of an African Girl Mary Jane Androne Chapter 3. The Politics of Exclusion and the Response of El Saadawi’s Women Iniobong Uko Section II. Gender, Patriarchy, and Marginalization Chapter 4. Breaking the Silence, Writing the Body Elena Garces de Eder Chapter 5. On Their Own Terms: Renegotiating Patriarchal Laws According to Farah’s Ebla and El Saadawi’s Firdaus Blessing Diala-Ogamba Chapter 6. Women at Point Zero: Oedipal Determinationin Adichie’sPurple Hibiscus, Aidoo’s Changes and Naylor’s The Women at Brewster Place Solomon Azumurana Section III. Masculinity and Gender Identity Chapter 7. Faces of Cleopatra Gabriela Vlahovici-Jones Chapter 8. Decadent Space: Women, Language and Crime in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People Chioma Opara Chapter 9. Two Views on Female Characters in Eje Meji, A Yoruba Movie Bayo Omolola Section IV. Motherhood and Love Chapter 10. Restaging Motherhood in African Literature: A Study of Selected Texts Irene Salami-Agunloye Chapter 11. Grass Splitting Stone: Suffering and the Return to Love Sidney Krome Chapter 12. A Call for Change: Liberation as Motif in Alice Childress’s A Hero Ain’t Nothing but aSandwich Romanus Muoneke Contributors Index

Autorenportrait

Blessing Diala-Ogamba is associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, and coordinator of the World Literature Program at Coppin State University. Elaine Sykes is assistant professor of English in the Department of Humanities, Coppin State University.