ALT 24 New Women`s Writing in African Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-85255-524-8
Verlag: James Currey

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 192 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 214 mm, Gewicht: 288 g

Reihe: African Literature Today

The rapid upsurge of writing by African women has been one of the most dynamic, phenomenal trends of African literature at the end of the twentieth century.

African women writers have come a long way since the 1960s when they were hardly acknowledged or noticed as serious writers. In the past four decades their works have been steadily rising in quantity and quality. Today these writers are seriously redefining images of womanhood, providing new visions, and reshaping erstwhile distorted characterizations of African women in fiction.

ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana StudiesUniversity of Michigan-Flint.

North America: Africa World Press; Nigeria: HEBN

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emenyonu, Ernest N.

Emenyonu, Ernest N

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Emenyonu, Ernest N
Ernest N. Emenyonu is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA. He is Series Editor of African Literature Today. His publications include A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2010), and the children's book Uzoechi: A Story of African Childhood (2012).