Amsterdam [u. a.]:
Rodopi
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2005
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274 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Veit-Wild, Flora |
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Versions and subversions in African literatures
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| Jahr: | 2005 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Literary representations of the body from Africa as well as narrative strategies of writing the body have only recently begun to receive wider critical attention. The reflections on body, sexuality, and gender in African literary texts brought together in this volume do not consider these three terms as separate entities but instead as closely related to each other, each term questioning the other: bodies and sexualities that are transgressing concepts of gender, gender that is probing body and sexuality. With regard to Africa, the three concepts form a particularly contested space, because body and sexuality are not only subjected to power relations in terms of gender, but also in terms of race, ethnicity, and the legacy of colonialism. While the sections Gifted Bodies and Queered Bodies show new developments in viewing body and sexuality as creative powers, the sections Tainted Bodies and Violated Bodies comprise essays that investigate the exposure of the body to physical aggression and other traumatic experiences. Flora Veit-Wild, Dirk Naguschewski: Lifting the Veil of Secrecy (ix); GENDERED BODIES: Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunye: Tête-à-tête With the Chief: Post-Womanist Discourse in Bessie Heads Maru (S. 3); Robert Muponde: Roots/Routes: Place, Bodies and Sexuality in Yvonne Veras Butterfly Burning (S. 15); Sigrid G. Köhler: Mad Body-Gifts: A Postcolonial Myth of Motherhood in Calixthe Beyalas Tu tappelleras Tanga (S. 31); Monica Bungaro: Male Feminist Fiction: Literary Subversions of a Gender-Biased Script (S. 47); QUEERED BODIES: Cheryl Stobie: Between the Arches of Queer Desire and Race: Representing Bisexual Bodies in the Rainbow Nation (S. 65); Drew Shaw: Queer Inclinations and Representations: Dambudzo Marechera and Zimbabwean Literature (S. 89); Elleke Boehmer: Versions of Yearning and Dissent: The Troping of Desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga (S. 113); Unoma N. Azuah: The Emerging Lesbian Voice in Nigerian Feminist Literature(S. 129); Alexie Tcheuyap: African Cinema and Representations of (Homo)Sexuality (S. 143); TAINTED BODIES: Susan Arndt: Boundless Whiteness? Feminism and White Women in the Mirror of African Feminist Writing (S. 157); Jessica Hemmings: Altered Surfaces. The Ambi Generation of Yvonne Veras Without a Name and Butterfly Burning (S. 173); Sarah Nutall: Dark Anatomies in Arthur Nortjes Poetry (S. 187); Alioune Sow: Forbidden Bodies: Relocation and Empowerment in Williams Sassines Novels (S. 207); VIOLATED BODIES: Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo: From the Horses Mouth: The Politics of Remembrance in Womens Writing on the Nigerian Civil War (S. 221); Marion Pape: Nigerian War Literature by Women: From Civil War to Gender War (S. 231); Martina Kopf: Writing Sexual Violence: Words and Silences in Yvonne Veras Under the Tongue (S. 243); Lucy Valerie Graham: Reading the Unspeakable: Rape in J.M. Coetzees Disgrace (S. 255) | |
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