Juju fission
Subtitle: women's alternative fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the oases in-between
By: Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi.
Series: Society and politics in Africa -- v. 18
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433100895
Subjects: Saʻdāwī, Nawāl -- Criticism and interpretation; African fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism; African fiction (French) -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Africa -- History -- 20th century; Women in literature; Africa -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preamble: serendipitous discoveries: the subaltern speaks, African women's writing;; title: Voicing from Zimbabwe to Algeria: the office and science of juju; title: The state of the African union address: a juju ambiance, the tete-a-tete, and the mimetic; title: What the fairy godmother said to the prince: Bessie Head's Maru; title: Rumble from the womb of the prison: Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero; title: The mouth unbound: a thousand and one African days and nights: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our sister killjoy or Reflections from a black-eyed squint and Changes; title: Talking sister, silenced subaltern: Assia Djebar's A sister to Scheherazade; title: "Lunatic writing"; the speaking space between the present and the future: Calixthe Beyala's The sun hath looked upon me; title: Echoes of a recent past: Yvonne Vera's Nehanda.