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Title:Negotiating gender identity and authority in the plays of Penina Muhando and Ari Katini Mwachofi
Author:Krüger, MarieISNI
Year:1998
Periodical:Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere: Schriftenreihe des Kölner Instituts für Afrikanistik
Issue:55
Pages:53-71
Language:English
Geographic terms:Kenya
Tanzania
Subjects:gender relations
literature
About persons:Penina Muhando MlamaISNI
Ari Katini MwachofiISNI
Abstract:What are the visions of gender identity that emerge in contemporary Swahili women's writing? How are gender relations negotiated? How are the attendant notions of 'femininity' and 'masculinity' defined? How does gender identity implicate issues of power, agency and authority? These are amongst the questions the author discusses for three plays by East African women authors: 'Heshima Yangu' (1974) and 'Nguzo Mama' (1982) by Penina Muhando Mlama (Tanzania) and 'Mama Ee' (1987) by Ari Katini Mwachofi (Kenya). The author's readings are guided by the theoretical concerns of Rachel Blau du Plessis (1985) and Susan Lanser (1991, 1992) within the context of dialogic definitions of culture and identity. Bibliogr., notes, ref.
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