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Book SynopsisIs 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 ContentsEditorial - 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
