description: This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal.
language: English
title: The Politics of (M)Othering: Womanhood, Identity and Resistance in African Literature
titlecomplete: The Politics of (M)Othering: Womanhood, Identity and Resistance in African Literature (Opening Out: Feminism for Today)
publisher: Routledge