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African women writing resistance: an anthology of contemporary voices

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Madison University of Wisconsin Press 2010Description: xxi, 337 pISBN:
  • 9780299236649
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.8896 A3
Summary: Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women's strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal narratives, testimony, interviews, short stories, poetry, performance scripts, folktales, and lyrics. Thematically organized, it presents women's writing on such issues as intertribal and interethnic conflicts, the degradation of the environment, polygamy, domestic abuse, the controversial traditional practice of female genital cutting, Sharia law, intergenerational tensions, and emigration and exile. https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4738.htm
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 41-B / Slot 2370 (3rd Floor, East Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 809.8896 A3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 194356

Table of Contents:


1.Engaging with tradition
2.Speaking out:Young women on sexuality
3.Challenging the institution of marriage
4.Focusing on survival: Women's health issue
5.Taking a stand: women as activist against war,environmental degradation and social conflict
6.Writing from a different place: Perspective on exile and diaspora
7.Standing at the edge of time: Africans women's vision of the past present and future

Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women's strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal narratives, testimony, interviews, short stories, poetry, performance scripts, folktales, and lyrics. Thematically organized, it presents women's writing on such issues as intertribal and interethnic conflicts, the degradation of the environment, polygamy, domestic abuse, the controversial traditional practice of female genital cutting, Sharia law, intergenerational tensions, and emigration and exile.


https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4738.htm

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