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Women Writers in Francophone Africa (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R5,804
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Women Writers in Francophone Africa (Hardcover)
Series: Berg French Studies Series
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Total price: R5,824
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In the rapidly growing field of African literature in French,
writing by women has largely been ignored. This book, the first
comprehensive study of women's writing in francophone sub-Saharan
Africa, redressess the critical imbalance and celebrates the
originality of this fascinating new literature.
Considering questions of genre and ideology, the author highlights
the tension between the individualistic act of writing and the
collective tradition of African society - a tension which emerges
as the key to each of the texts discussed. Focusing on four major
authors - Mariama Bâ, Aminata Sow Fall, Werewere Liking and
Calixthe Beyala, each with an international reputation - the book
uses a feminist approach to consider the duality of the African
woman, who is often torn between modernity and tradition. This
duality, the author suggests, is reconfigured through fictional
writings which provide a space for alternative female
subjectivities to emerge.
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