Nwanyibu
Subtitle: womanbeing & African literature
By: edited by Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru and Ketu H. Katrak.
Contributors: Egejuru, Phanuel Akubueze.; Katrak, Ketu H.; African Literature Association. Meeting
Edition: 1st Africa World Press, Inc. ed.
Series: Annual selected papers of the ALA,; no. 1
Publisher: Africa World Press; Africa World Pr
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: African literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Women and literature -- Africa -- Congresses.; Women in literature -- Congresses.
Other titles: Womanbeing & African literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"17th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association held at Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana, from March 20 to 23, 1991"--P. [1].
Table of contents: title: The paradox of womanbeing and the female principle in Igbo cosmology / Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru; title: A reading of Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa / N. Jane Opoku-Agyemang; title: Female perspectives in African literature / Emmanuel Obiechina; title: Female choices, the militant option in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra and Alice Walker's Meridian / Pauline Ada Uwakweh; title: Beyond femaleness, Beryl Markham, Africa's adopted daughter in West with the wind / Mary A. McCay; title: The dynamics of power in Mudimbe's Before the birth of the moon / Janice Spleth; title: The battlefield of politics and selfhood in Bessie Head's A question of power / Natasha Vaubel; title: Black women writers, English fiction in a new South Africa / Elizabeth Taylor; title: Zoe Wicomb's You can't get lost in Cape Town, "A new clean Voice" / Carol Sicherman; title: From La Noire de... to Milk and Honey, Portraits of the alienated African woman / Janis L. Pallister; title: Sow Fall, Sembene, Achebe and Senghor, literary representations of political realities / Hal Wylie; title: Anti-colonialist and womanist discourse in the works of Jamaica Kincaid and Simone Schwwarz-Bart / Gerise Herndon.