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 Leiden University catalogue |
| Title: | Women's studies, diasporas and cultural diversity: essays in literary criticism and culture |
| Editor: | Kandji, Mamadou |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Issue: | 12 |
| Pages: | 431 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Collection bridges |
| City of publisher: | Dakar |
| Publisher: | Dakar University Press |
| ISBN: | 2913184421; 9782913184428 |
| Geographic terms: | Africa Caribbean Great Britain United States |
| Subjects: | literature women diasporas literary criticism |
| Abstract: | This collection of 24 essays (14 in English, 10 in French) is arranged in three 'chapters' or parts. The extended notion of cultural diversity permeates almost all. Part 1 covers a wide range of literary topics relating to African Anglophone and British literatures, with emphasis on the status of women. It mainly addresses fiction produced by such writers as Alex La Guma, Wole Soyinka, Elechi Amadi, John Nkengasong, Buchi Emecheta, Gloria Naylor and Margaret Drabble. The second part includes 8 essays, most of which focus on Caribbean, African American and other diaspora literatures, with a few contributions on comparative literature. This section encompasses female writers such as Jean Rhys, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison, and male writers such as Wole Soyinka, Langston Hughes, Léopold Sédar Senghor and John Maxwell Coetzee. The third and final part focuses on Ann Petry, Chinua Achebe, Ousmane Sembene, Aminata Sow Fall, British novelist John Fowles, and the playwrights William Shakespeare and Sarah Kane. It also includes essays on the cultural history of the British presence in Africa, the influence of feminism on social work or social welfare, and the impact of Anglo-American culture on contemporary Africa. Contributors: Baydallaye Kane, Amadou Bissiri, Alfred Kiema, Eugène Ngezem, Mame couna Diaw, Moussa Kambiré, Daouda Loum, Yankhoba Seydi, Augustin Ainamon, Adama Coly, Ibrahima Ndiaye, Mamdou Kandji, Daouda Coulibaly, Minata Koné, Alioune Badara Kandji, Mariame Wane-Ly, Cousson Traoré, Eldred Ibibiem Green, Aliou Sow, Cheikh Kandji, Ousmane Aly Pame, Mody Sidibé, Kouamé Sayni, Louis Thomas, Ciss, Konan Amani. [ASC Leiden abstract] |