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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.
The success of the Caine Prize for African Writing and the growth
of online publishing have played key roles in putting the short
story in its rightful place within the study and criticism of
African literature. African writers have, much more than the
critics, recognized the beauty and potency of the short story.
Always the least studied in African literature classrooms and the
most critically overlooked genre in African literature today, the
African short story is now given the attention it deserves.
Contributors here take a close look at the African short story to
re-define its own peculiar pedigree, chart its trajectory, critique
its present state and examineits creative possibilities. They
examine how the short story and the novel complement each other, or
exist in contradistinction, within the context of culture and
politics, history and public memory, legends, myths and folklore.
Ernest Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University
of Michigan-Flint, USA; the editorial board is composed of scholars
from US, UK and African universities Nigeria: HEBN
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