This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal.
Author(s): Obioma Nnaemeka
Series: Opening Out: Feminism for Today
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 256
Tags: Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminism, Motherhood, Mothering, African Literature
Book Cover
Half-Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Contributors
Series preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
POSTSCRIPT
NOTES
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1 Mother’s talk
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2 Nervous Conditions
NATIONALISM AND FEMINISM: “EQUAL AND DIALOGIC”?
COLONIAL PSYCHOLOGY AS “HINGE”
THE COLONIAL MALE AS “HISTORICAL ARTEFACT”
COLONIZED WOMEN: ACCOMMODATION AND THE SOURCES OF RESISTANCE
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3 Why the Snake-Lizard killed his mother
THEORY OF GENDER BALANCE: NNEKA AND CHUKWUKA
OKONKWO AND SNAKE-LIZARD: MALE TROPES AS ABSOLUTE STANDARDS
METAPHOR AND NUMEROLOGY: THE SYMBOLIC SEVENS AND THREES
THE KILLING OF WOMAN: FOR WHOM IS IT GOOD?
WOMANBEING: BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS
CONCLUSION
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4 The Eye and the Other
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5 Enlightenment epistemology and “aesthetic cognition”
“AESTHETIC COGNITION” AS A DIMENSION OF LITERARY CRITICISM
GENDER, GENRE, AND AUTHORITY: ‘MIRASSE’ AS NARRATIVE DEVICE
ENLIGHTENMENT EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE INVENTION OF POLYGYNY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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6 Calixthe Beyala’s “femme-fillette”
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7 Bound to matter
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8 MotherTongues and childless women
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9 Ontological victimhood
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10 Urban spaces, women’s places
FEMINISM, SPEECH, AND SILENCE(D)
MODERNITY AS SUBVERSION
LIVING WITH CONTRADICTIONS: DIFFERENT LIVES, SAME STORY
REVENONS A NOS MOUTONS!21
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11 Reconstructing motherhood
MOTHER=MOTHER AFRICA IN “MASTER TEXTS”
WOMEN WRITING THEMSELVES
WOMEN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MOTHERING
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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12 Geographies of pain
DISFIGURATION AND CASTRATION: JULETANE AND SIDONIE
MEDUSA’S SILENCE: EVA
FINDING “GOLD AMIDST THE ASH”: LIFE AND DIKELEDI
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Index
