Download or read book Postcolonial Representation of the African Woman in the Selected Works of Ngugi and Adichie written by Eren Bolat and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the lives and issues of African women arrived on the agenda of postcolonial writers, African women, who continued their lives under double colonization by patriarchy and dominant powers, did not have much standing in literary works and in the world of literature. Postcolonial African women have often been represented as weak, subaltern, and speechless by western writers, and have even been underrepresented by some postcolonial writers. This book shows how the African woman, who is usually represented in clichéd and stereotyped forms, is depicted a versatile way in Ngugi and Adichie’s novels.
Download or read book Narratives Crossing Boundaries written by Joachim Friedmann and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the dominant narrative forms in the age of media convergence, films and games call for a transmedial perspective in narratology. Games allow a participatory reception of the story, bringing the transgression of the ontological boundary between the narrated world and the world of the recipient into focus. These diverse transgressions - medial and ontological - are the subject of this transdisciplinary compendium, which covers the subject in an interdisciplinary way from various perspectives: game studies and media studies, but also sociology and psychology, to take into account the great influence of storytelling on social discourses and human behavior.
Download or read book Proceedings International Conference on Intercultural Humanities written by and published by Sanata Dharma University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era characterized by globalization, technological advancements, and increased interconnectedness, the need to foster understanding and appreciation of diverse cultures has become more critical than ever. The field of intercultural humanities seeks to bridge the gaps between different societies, languages, traditions, and belief systems, promoting dialogue, empathy, and mutual respect. This conference served as a platform for the exchange of ideas, theories, methodologies, and practical approaches that contribute to the advancement of intercultural humanities. It aimed to delve into various disciplines within the humanities, including literature, linguistics, and education while examining how they intersect and interact with diverse cultural contexts.
Download or read book Postcolonial Hauntologies African Women s Discourses of the Female Bod written by Ayo A. Coly and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical thought and feminist theory have largely integrated the sexual female body into their disciplines, colonial representations of African women’s sexuality “haunt” contemporary postcolonial African scholarship which—by maintaining a culture of avoidance about women’s sexuality—generates a discursive conscription that ultimately holds the female body hostage. Ayo A. Coly employs the concept of “hauntology” and “ghostly matters” to formulate an explicative framework in which to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as a theoretical framework for discerning the elusive and cautious presences of female sexuality in the texts of African women. In illuminating the pervasive silence about the sexual female body in postcolonial African scholarship, Postcolonial Hauntologies challenges hostile responses to critical and artistic voices that suggest the African female body represents sacred ideological-discursive ground on which one treads carefully, if at all. Coly demonstrates how “ghosts” from the colonial past are countered by discursive engagements with explicit representations of women’s sexuality and bodies that emphasize African women’s power and autonomy.
Download or read book A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie written by Ernest Emenyo̲nu and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontcover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Narrating the Past: Orality, History & the Production of Knowledge in the Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- 2. Deconstructing Binary Oppositions of Gender in Purple Hibiscus: A Review of Religious/Traditional Superiority & Silence -- 3. Adichie & the West African Voice: Women & Power in Purple Hibiscus -- 4. Reconstructing Motherhood: A Mutative Reality in Purple Hibiscus -- 5. Ritualized Abuse in Purple Hibiscus -- 6. Dining Room & Kitchen: Food-Related Spaces & their Interfaces with the Female Body in Purple Hibiscus -- 7. The Paradox of Vulnerability: The Child Voice in Purple Hibiscus -- 8. 'Fragile Negotiations': Olanna's Melancholia in Half of a Yellow Sun -- 9. The Biafran War & the Evolution of Domestic Space in Half of a Yellow Sun -- 10. Corruption in Post-Independence Politics: Half of a Yellow Sun as a Reflection of A Man of the People -- 11. Contrasting Gender Roles in Male-Crafted Fiction with Half of a Yellow Sun -- 12. 'A Kind of Paradise': Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Claim to Agency, Responsibility & Writing -- 13. Dislocation, Cultural Memory & Transcultural Identity in Select Stories from The Thing Around Your Neck -- 14. 'Reverse Appropriations' & Transplantation in Americanah -- 15. Revisiting Double Consciousness & Relocating the Self in Americanah -- 16. Adichie's Americanah: A Migrant Bildungsroman -- 17. 'Hairitage' Matters: Transitioning & the Third Wave Hair Movement in 'Hair', 'Imitation' & Americanah -- Appendix: The Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Index
Download or read book Rethinking African Cultural Portrayal of Women with Reference to Chimamanda Adichie Ngozi s Selected Novels written by Develda Kwena Seanego and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book There is No Place for African Women written by Joan Linda Palapala and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation interrogates Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's representation of African women in her literary oeuvre. I argue that her female characters bear witness to intersecting oppressions of African women portraying them as being extremely marginalized at home and lacking achievable alternate homes. This study also interrogates Adichie's feminist philosophy and posits that she typically agitates for equality for all regardless of sex, gender, race, and/or other defining identities. Lastly, I argue that Adichie uses the practice of the African novel to rewrite the character of African women in African literature where her uniqueness hinges on her interrogation of the place of Africans in contemporary world culture, in turn, uses the novel to critique society's hierarchies of privilege and oppression and of stereotypical representation of Africa and Africans in the world arena.
Download or read book The Thing Around Your Neck written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—a dazzling story collection filled with "indelible characters who jump off the page and into your head and heart" (USA Today). In these twelve riveting stories, the award-winning Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explores the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.
Download or read book Gender and Identity in North Africa written by Abdelkader Cheref and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary fiction has always provided an outlet for social and political critique. In the writing of key North African women authors, the dissection of Maghrebi society is at the very heart of the narratives. Here, Abdelkader Cheref charts the rise of postcolonial literature written by women from the Maghreb, and provides the first comparative analysis of three of the region's most prominent contemporary authors: Assia Djeba (Algeria), Leila Abouzeid (Morocco) and Souad Guellouz (Tunisia). These writers are united in their depictions of a post-independence socio-political malaise in the Maghreb; their explorations of marginalised women's voices; and, their own quests for their voices to be heard beyond the rigid constraints of patriarchy. This book is essential comparative reading for students and researchers wishing to understand the connections between literature, history and culture in postcolonial North Africa.
Download or read book Gender in African Women s Writing written by Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a cogent analysis of the complexities of gender in the work of nine contemporary Anglophone and Francophone novelists. . . . offers illuminating interpretations of worthy writers . . . " —Multicultural Review "This book reaffirms Bessie Head's remark that books are a tool, in this case a tool that allows readers to understand better the rich lives and the condition of African women. Excellent notes and a rich bibliography." —Choice ". . . a college-level analysis which will appeal to any interested in African studies and literature." —The Bookwatch This book applies gender as a category of analysis to the works of nine sub-Saharan women writers: Aidoo, Bá, Beyala, Dangarembga, Emecheta, Head, Liking, Tlali, and Zanga Tsogo. The author appropriates western feminist theories of gender in an African literary context, and in the process, she finds and names critical theory that is African, indigenous, self-determining, which she then melds with western feminist theory and comes out with an over-arching theory that enriches western, post-colonial and African critical perspectives.
Download or read book Stories of women written by Elleke Boehmer and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. 'Stories of women' combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, 'daughter' writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context. Focusing on Africa as well as South Asia, and sexuality as well as gender, Boehmer offers fine close readings of writers ranging from Achebe, Okri and Mandela to Arundhati Roy and Yvonne Vera, shaping these into a critical engagement with theorists of the nation like Fredric Jameson and Partha Chatterjee. This edition will be of interest to readers and researchers of postcolonial, international and women's writing; of nation theory, colonial history and historiography; of Indian, African, migrant and diasporic literatures, and is likely to prove a landmark study in the field.
Download or read book Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie written by Daria Tunca and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed African writers of the twenty-first century. Best known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks, and essays on feminism, she is also a notoriously outspoken intellectual. As she puts it in an interview with Lia Grainger, in her characteristically straightforward style: “I have things to say and I’ll say them.” Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the first collection of interviews with the writer. Covering fifteen years of conversations, the interviews start with the publication of Adichie’s first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2003), and end in late 2018, by which time Adichie had become one of the most prominent figures on the international literary scene. As both scholars and passionate readers of the author’s work are bound to find out, the opinions shared by Adichie in interviews over the years coalesce into a fascinating portrait that presents both abiding features and gradual transformations. Reflecting the political and emotional scope of Adichie’s work, the conversations contained in this volume cover a wide range of topics, including colonialism, race, immigration, and feminism. Collectively, these interviews testify both to the author’s ardent wish to strive for a more just and equal world, and to her deep interest in exploring our common humanity. As Adichie says in her 2009 interview with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro: “When people call me a novelist, I say, well, yes. I really think of myself as a storyteller.” This book invites Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to tell her own literary story.
Download or read book Redefining the African Woman in Contemporary African Literature written by Adaora Susan Okpala and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adichie -- African women -- African feminism -- Feminist -- Female/feminine -- Patriarchy -- Gender -- Complementarity -- Sexuality.
Download or read book Society Women and Literature in Africa written by Onyebuchi Orabueze and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society, Women and Literature in Africa explores the ideological, literary, political, cultural and ethical issues related to feminist writing. She discusses how contemporary African writers have tried to counteract men s false assumptions about sex, love, society, fecundity and womanhood, and further details how African writers have responded to the demands of feminism. Woman s Cross Cultural Burden in the selected works of West African Female writers explores the recurrent themes of motherhood, polygamy, abandonment and widowhood in the works of Nwapa, Emecheta, Alkali, Aidoo and Mariama Bâ. In Prostitution: A Metaphor for the Degradation of Womanhood in Bode Osanyin s the Noble Mistress , the author approaches the subject of woman degradation in society from the perspectives of comprehensive research and an in-depth referencing. Gendered Social Division of Labour in the African Novel explores the theme of unfairness, of institutionalized differentiation in the African novel. It reveals the total emasculation of woman in patriarchy and her desire to be liberated from male-annexation. The Prison World of Nigeria Woman: Female Reticence in Sefi Attah s Everything Good Will Come , the author explores the dimensions of gender silences . She shows how woman s voice has been stolen in patriarchy, thus rendering her a social and political mutant. Womanhood as a Metaphor for Sexual Slavery in Nawal El Saddawi s Woman at Point Zero underscores that in patriarchy a woman is educated to make an object of herself for male pleasure. She is excluded from politics as a result of religion. The Ugly Face of Ghana in the New Millennium: Alienation of Children in Amma Darko s Faceless is a stylistic study of the consequences of globalization in postindependent Ghana. In The Theme of Dispossession in A.N Akwanya s the Pilgrim Foot , the author examines the myriad perspectives of dispossession and the dispossessor.
Download or read book We Should All Be Feminists written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun, based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name.
Download or read book GYNOCENTRIC CONTOURS OF THE MALE IMAGINATION A STUDY OF THE NOVELS OF CHINUA ACHEBE AND NG G WA THIONG O written by Dr. Amna Shamim and published by Idea Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is upon the changing perception of women in African society and their portrayal over different periods in the novels of Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa Thiong’o; the writers who intriguingly wrote on the constant changing role of African women in Igbo and Gikuyu clans. The book dicusses the image of African women entrapped in double jeopardy in both traditional and modern Africa. There has been a remarkable transformation in the representation of women from the early novels to the later novels of both the writers that has been studied in this book from close quarters. The approach and technique of the novelists in projecting their female characters has also been analyzed. The novels of both the writers marked a sea change in the thinking and perception of Westerners with reference to Africa and its people. This work is devoted to the exploration of the image of women in the East and West African societies through the selected novels of Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa Thiong’o.
Download or read book Women s Spaces Women s Visions written by Katwiwa Mule and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
