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Is the woman writer free to follow her own creative impulse and write about what she pleases?Reflects the emergence of accomplished works by African women writers. North America: Africa World Press

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Editorial - The female writer & her commitment by Molara Ogundipe-Leslie - Women without men: the feminist novel in Africa by Katherine Frank - Mother Africa on a pedestal: the male heritage in African literature & criticism by Mineke Schipper - Feminist issues in the fiction of Kenya's women writers by Jean F.O'Barr - The didactic essence of Efua Sutherland's plays by Adetokunbo Pearce - Bessie Head's A Question of Power and identity by Charles P. Sarvan - Contemporary society & the female imagination: a study of the novels of Mariam Ba by Mbye B. Cham - Dreams of a common language: Nadine Gordimer's July's People by Jennifer Gordon - Ama Ata Aidoo & the oral tradition: a paradox of form & substance by Arlene Elder - Images of women in Wole Soyinka's work by Sylvia Bryan - Women & resistance in Ngugi's Devil on the Cross by Jennifer Evans - The house of slavery by Adewale Maja-Pearce - The Afro-American West African marriage question: its literary & historical contexts by Brenda F. Berrian

ALT 15 Women in African Literature Today

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    Publisher: James Currey
    Publication Date: 27/11/2003
    ISBN13: 9780852555002, 978-0852555002
    ISBN10: 0852555008
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Is the woman writer free to follow her own creative impulse and write about what she pleases?Reflects the emergence of accomplished works by African women writers. North America: Africa World Press

    Table of Contents
    Editorial - The female writer & her commitment by Molara Ogundipe-Leslie - Women without men: the feminist novel in Africa by Katherine Frank - Mother Africa on a pedestal: the male heritage in African literature & criticism by Mineke Schipper - Feminist issues in the fiction of Kenya's women writers by Jean F.O'Barr - The didactic essence of Efua Sutherland's plays by Adetokunbo Pearce - Bessie Head's A Question of Power and identity by Charles P. Sarvan - Contemporary society & the female imagination: a study of the novels of Mariam Ba by Mbye B. Cham - Dreams of a common language: Nadine Gordimer's July's People by Jennifer Gordon - Ama Ata Aidoo & the oral tradition: a paradox of form & substance by Arlene Elder - Images of women in Wole Soyinka's work by Sylvia Bryan - Women & resistance in Ngugi's Devil on the Cross by Jennifer Evans - The house of slavery by Adewale Maja-Pearce - The Afro-American West African marriage question: its literary & historical contexts by Brenda F. Berrian

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