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Author(s): Safoura Salami-Boukari
ISBN(s): 9781940729022, 1940729025
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 4.20 MB
Year: 2012
Language: english
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ISBN 10:    ‎ 0979085853

ISBN 13: 978-0979085857

Author: Safoura Salami-Boukari 

How do we resolve the insider/outsider interpreting conundrum? Why do readers from different parts of the world read, interpret, or understand foreign literatures the way they do? What drives peculiar critical reactions, canon formations and such issues which determine the survival of cultural productions or their continued adoption as useful bolsters for a people’s self-definition or indeed self-preservation and self-determination? African Literature: Gender Discourse, Religious Values, and the African Worldview offers a series of fresh insights into most of the old “problematics” which used to sustain the interpretations of African literature, especially by women. Students, scholars, and general readers wishing to consider issues of gender in relation to African cultural and socioeconomic systems and what Salami-Boukari interrogates and names as an “African worldview,” will find the interdisciplinary discussion of historical analyses, literary criticism and gender discourses a useful method for engaging contemporary African perspectives.
 

Table of contents: 

PART ONE: Historical Background & Methodology

The Historical Context of West African Literature in the 1960s & the Study Structure

PART TWO: Sociocultural Issues in Igbo Society

Beliefs about Men & Women.

Rites of Passage & Ritual Practices: Female Circumcision

(Excision).

Cultural Violence

For Rama.

The Traditional Doctor or “Dibia” in Igbo Society..

Relationships & Marriage: Polygamy versus Monogamy

Relationships & Marriage: Polygamy a Way of Life?.

PART THREE: Religion in African Literature & Implications for Today’s Society.

Obinkaram Echewa’s Treatment of Religion in The Land’s Lord-Toward Religious Relativism and Ecumenical Perspectives..

Old-Ahamba & Father Higler: Antagonistic or Complementary Relationship?

Originality of African Traditional Religion: The Power to Create or Destroy Deities.

The Symbolic Value of Building the Church: The Role of the Christian Cross & the Traditional “Ofo” in The Land’s Lord..

PART FOUR: Character Depictions.

The Prototypical Perfect Character Creation: Efuru

Flora Nwapa’s Ajanupu: Traditional or Postmodern Activist?

PART FIVE: African Women’s Voice: Critical & Comparative Perspectives

Flora Nwapa: A Woman Writer in a Male-Dominated Literary World..

Comparative Approach: Nwapa & Other West African

Women Writers

Nwapa’s Eponym Depiction in Efuru versus Mariama Ba’s Portrayal of Ramatoulaye and Aissatou in So Long a Letter

Leila Abouzeid: Pioneer Moroccan Woman Writer in Arabic Background

Family, Education, Gender Perceptions and Islamic/Feminist Activism

Description of the Author’s Work

PART SIX: Reflection on Arts and Women’s Activism.

The Role of the Writer as an Activist and Promoter of Social Change..

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