Gender voices and choices
Subtitle: redefining women in contemporary African fiction
By: Gloria Chineze Chukukere.
Publisher: Fourth Dimension Pub. Co.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Enugu, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: African fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.; Sex role in literature.; Women in literature.
Other titles: Gender voices & choices
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-331) and index.
Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Lagos.
Table of contents: title: The role of African women in life and literature; title: Onitsha market literature : the chapbook heroine; title: Cyprian Ekwensi : a socially conditioned perception; title: The elevated heroine; title: Flora Nwapa : the women's vulnerability and her search for options; title: Buchi Emecheta : the yoke of womanhood; title: Grace Ogot : the East African  perspective; title: Bessie Head : the alienated heroine.