African women writing resistance: An anthology of contemporary voices

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African Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women's strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal narratives, testimony, interviews, short stories, poetry, performance scripts, folktales, and lyrics. Thematically organized, it presents women's writing on such issues as intertribal and interethnic conflicts, the degradation of the environment, polygamy, domestic abuse, the controversial traditional practice of female genital cutting, Sharia law, intergenerational tensions, and emigration and exile. Contributors include internationally recognized authors and activists such as Wangari Maathai and Nawal El Saadawi, as well as a host of vibrant new voices from all over the African continent and from the African diaspora. Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection provides an excellent introduction to contemporary African women's literature and highlights social issues that are particular to Africa but are also of worldwide concern. It is an essential reference for students of African studies, world literature, anthropology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and women's studies. © 2010 by University of Wisconsin Press. All Rights Reserved.

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De Hernandez, J. B., Dongala, P., Jolaosho, O., & Serafin, A. (2010). African women writing resistance: An anthology of contemporary voices. African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices (pp. 1–337). University of Wisconsin Press. https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.48-3712

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