Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa
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Published By Zed Books
ISBN : 9781786990105
Category : Women
Format : Paperback
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‘Clear, informed thinking about the gendered nexus of culture and power is needed more than ever. The new publication of Newell’s collection is an event to be applauded, and its contents to be pondered.’
Wendy Griswold, from the Foreword

 

 

 

Stephanie Newell is a professor of English at the Yale University, specialising in West African literature. Her other books include The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa (2013) and The Forger’s Tale: The Search for Odeziaku (2006).

 

Wendy Griswold is the Bergen Evans Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University. Her books include Cultures and Societies in a Changing World (new edition 2012) and Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria (2000).

 

 



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