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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewLiterary Crossroads is an important addition to the burgeoning body of criticism on African (and African-diaspora) women writers of fiction and film. -- Paula Barnes, Hampton University
Table of ContentsTABLE 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 a Sandwich Romanus Muoneke Contributors Index
