num_pages: 360
description: African Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on womens 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 womens 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. Contributors include internationally recognized authors and activists such as Wangari Maathai and Nawal El Saadawi as well as a host of vibrant new voices from all over the African continent and from the African diaspora. Interdisciplinary in scope this collection provides an excellent introduction to contemporary African womens literature and highlights social issues that are particular to Africa but are also of worldwide concern. It is an essential reference for students of African studies world literature anthropology cultural studies postcolonial studies and womens studies. A Choice Outstanding Academic BookOutstanding Book selected by the Public Library AssociationBest Books for High Schools Best Books for Special Interests and Best Books for Professional Use selected by the American Association of School Libraries
language: English
title: African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press