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African Feminism, Gender and Sexuality: Emerging Discourses in Contemporary Literature

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This book discusses emerging critical tendencies on African feminism, gender and sexuality, in the works of contemporary writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Ata, Amma Darko, Ama Ata Aidoo, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Binwell Sinyangwe,...
AuthorDamlègue Lare
ISBN-139783941267169
Publication Year2017
Pages374
LanguageEnglish
Subject AreaAfrican Studies
DisciplineLiterature

This book discusses emerging critical tendencies on African feminism, gender and sexuality, in the works of contemporary writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Ata, Amma Darko, Ama Ata Aidoo, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Binwell Sinyangwe, Isidore Okpewho, Asare Konadu, Efo Kodjo Mawugbe, Chinua Achebe and Frank Ogodo Ogbeche. It seeks to update critical scholarship on the necessity to define an African variant of feminism that adapts to African realities and cultural differences. Text selected relocate the canon with the 21st century critical survey.

Damlègue Lare
Dr Damlègue Lare is senior lecturer of African literature and civilization. He has been teaching African literature and civilization in the public Universities of Lome, Togo. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar of senior research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA) for the academic year 2016-2017. He is the author of two books: Diction and Postcolonial Vision in the Plays of Wole Soyinka (Galda 2016) and African Feminism, Gender and Sexuality (Galda 2017). His areas of research cover postcolonial literature, feminism and gender, modern African drama and theatre studies.