Society, Women and Literature in Africa

Onyebuchi Orabueze

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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.

Sujets

• Gender Studies

Informations

• Publié par: M and J Grand Orbit Communications
• Date de parution: 29 décembre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 27
• EAN13: 9789785421583
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

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Society, Women & Literature

Books in English Studies Published by M & J Press 1.Society, Women and Literature in Africa 2. Language, Literature & Literacy in a Developing Nation 3. English Studies and National Development 4. Compass - Comparative Literature in Africa: Essays in Honour of Willfred F. Feuser

Society, Women and Literature in Africa Florence Onyebuchi Orabueze Department of English Language & Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. M & J Grand Orbit Communications Ltd., Port Harcourt

M & J Grand Orbit Communications Ltd. No. 10 Nchia Street, Delta Park Box 237 Uniport P.O. University of Port Harcourt,Nigeria. E-mail: [e-mail] Mobil Phone: [phone] 2015Florence Onyebuchi Orabueze All rights reserved. No part of this work may be used or reproduced in any manner, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the Copyright owner except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. ISBN978-978-54127-9-6 Published by M & J Grand Orbit Communications Ltd., Port Harcourt

Dedication This work is dedicatd to my wonderful children – Chiamaka Ifeatu, Ibuchukwu Nkeonyeasoya, Obiajulu Ikenna and Chukwunedum Ndukaife – for their love and understanding.

Table of Contents Dedication v Foreword vi Chapter 11 The Ugly Face of Ghana in the New Millennium: Alienation of Children in Amma Darko’sFaceless1 1.0 Introduction 1 1.1 The Ugly Face of Ghana in the New Millennium 5 1.2 Alienation of Children in the Novel 10 1.3 Conclusion 23 References 24 Chapter 229 Womanhood as a Metaphor for Sexual Slavery in Nawal El Saadawi’sWoman at Point Zero29 2.0 Introduction 29 2.1 Womanhood as a Metaphor for Sexual Slavery 36 2.2 Womanhood as Metaphor for the Rape of  the Citizens 65 References 73 Chapter 379 Our Endangered Values: The Challenges of Parenthood st in the 21 Century in Chukwuemeka Ike’sOur Children Are Coming!and Bode Osanyin’sThe Noble Mistress79 3.0 Introduction 79 3.1Our Endangered Values 80

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3.2The Westernization of Africa 3.3 The Challenges of Parenthood 3.4 Leadership at the Family level 3.5 Generational Gap Friction on Leadership 3.6 The Handling of the Generation Gap War 3.7 Conclusion References Chapter 4 Women’s Cross-Cultural Burden in the Selected Works of Some West African Female Writers 4.0 Introduction 4.1 The Major Themes in these Selected Works 4.2 Polygamy 4.3 Abandonment 4.4 Widowhood 4.5 Suggestions 4.5.1 Re-orientation or a new socialization 4.6.2 Legislation 4.7 Conclusion References Chapter 5 Gendered Social Division of Labour in the African Novel 5.0 Introduction 5.1 Gender-Sensitivity in Social Division of Labour 5.2 Social Division of Labour at the Domestic Level 5.3 A Man’s Responsibilities to his Family

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5.4 A Woman’s Duties to her Family 5.5 Social Division of Labour at the Public Level 5.6 Language & Literary Devices in Gendered  Social Division of Labour in the African Novel 5.7 Conclusion References Chapter 6 The Prison World of the Nigerian Woman: An Aspect of Gender Silences in Sefi Atta’sEverything Good Will Come 6.0 Introduction 6.1 Summary of the Novel 6.2 The Nigerian Woman in her Home Prison 6.3 The Nigerian Woman in her School Prison 6.4 The Nigerian Woman in her Office Prison 6.5 The Nigerian Woman in her Religious Prison 6.6 The Nigerian Woman in the State Prison 6.7 Aspect of Gender Silences in the Novel 6.8 The Nigerian Woman’s Complicity in  Imprisonment 6.9 Conclusion References

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