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  1. Feminism and modernity in Anglophone African women's writing
    a 21st-century global context
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book re-reads the last sixty years of Anglophone African women's writing from a transnational and trans-historical feminist perspective, rather than postcolonial, from which these texts have been traditionally interpreted. Such a comparative... more

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    "This book re-reads the last sixty years of Anglophone African women's writing from a transnational and trans-historical feminist perspective, rather than postcolonial, from which these texts have been traditionally interpreted. Such a comparative frame throws into relief patterns across time and space that make it possible to situate this writing as an integral part of women's literary history. Revisiting this literature in a comparative context with Western women writers since the 18th century, the author highlights how invocations of "tradition" have been used by patriarchy everywhere to subjugate women, the similarities between women's struggles worldwide, and the feminist imagination it produced. The author argues that in the 21st century, African feminism has undergone a major epistemic shift: from a culturally exclusive to a relational feminism that conceptualizes African femininity through the risky opening oneself to otherness, transculturation, and translation. Like Western feminists in the 1960s, contemporary African women writers are turning their attention to the female body as the prime site of women's oppression and freedom, reframing feminism as a demand for universal human rights and actively shaping global discourses on gender, modernity, and democracy. The book will be of interest to students and researchers of African literature, but also feminist literary scholars and comparatists more generally"--...

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781003255932; 1003255930; 9781000620269; 1000620263; 9781000620290; 1000620298
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    Series: Routledge African diaspora literary and cultural studies
    Subjects: African literature (English); African literature; Feminist literature; Feminism and literature; Human body in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / African; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
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  2. Feminism and modernity in Anglophone African women's writing
    a 21st-century global context
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon

    "This book re-reads the last sixty years of Anglophone African women's writing from a transnational and trans-historical feminist perspective, rather than postcolonial, from which these texts have been traditionally interpreted. Such a comparative... more

     

    "This book re-reads the last sixty years of Anglophone African women's writing from a transnational and trans-historical feminist perspective, rather than postcolonial, from which these texts have been traditionally interpreted. Such a comparative frame throws into relief patterns across time and space that make it possible to situate this writing as an integral part of women's literary history. Revisiting this literature in a comparative context with Western women writers since the 18th century, the author highlights how invocations of "tradition" have been used by patriarchy everywhere to subjugate women, the similarities between women's struggles worldwide, and the feminist imagination it produced. The author argues that in the 21st century, African feminism has undergone a major epistemic shift: from a culturally exclusive to a relational feminism that conceptualizes African femininity through the risky opening oneself to otherness, transculturation, and translation. Like Western feminists in the 1960s, contemporary African women writers are turning their attention to the female body as the prime site of women's oppression and freedom, reframing feminism as a demand for universal human rights and actively shaping global discourses on gender, modernity, and democracy. The book will be of interest to students and researchers of African literature, but also feminist literary scholars and comparatists more generally"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003255932; 1003255930; 9781000620269; 1000620263; 9781000620290; 1000620298
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    Series: Routledge African diaspora literary and cultural studies
    Subjects: African literature (English); African literature; Feminist literature; Feminism and literature; Human body in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / African; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  3. Feminism and modernity in Anglophone African women's writing
    a 21st-century global context
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London ; New York

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    ISBN: 9781003255932
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    Series: Routledge African diaspora literary and cultural studies
    Subjects: Frauenliteratur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 245 Seiten)
  4. Feminism and modernity in Anglophone African women's writing
    a 21st-century global context
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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    ISBN: 9781003255932
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    Series: Routledge African diaspora literary and cultural studies
    Subjects: African literature (English); African literature; Feminist literature; Feminism and literature; Human body in literature; Frauenliteratur; Feminismus; Electronic books; LITERARY CRITICISM / African; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 245 Seiten)
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [219]-241

  5. Feminism and modernity in Anglophone African women's writing
    a 21st-century global context
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London ; New York

    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
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    ISBN: 9781003255932
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    Series: Routledge African diaspora literary and cultural studies
    Subjects: Afrika; Frauenliteratur; Geschichte 2000-2022
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 245 Seiten)
  6. Feminism and modernity in Anglophone African women's writing
    a 21st-century global context
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London ; New York

    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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    ISBN: 9781003255932
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    Series: Routledge African diaspora literary and cultural studies
    Subjects: Frauenliteratur; Feminismus
    Other subjects: Electronic books
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  7. Feminism and modernity in Anglophone African women's writing
    a 21st-century global context
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003255932
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    RVK Categories: HP 1245
    Series: Routledge African diaspora literary and cultural studies
    Subjects: African literature (English); African literature; Feminist literature; Feminism and literature; Human body in literature; Frauenliteratur; Feminismus; Electronic books; LITERARY CRITICISM / African; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 245 Seiten)
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [219]-241