143069 VO VO 20th Century African Women's Writing and Feminism (2024W)

THIS IS A LIST OF WORKS COVERED IN THE LECTURES. IT IS NOT REQUIRED READING.ALL WILL BE AVAILABLE ON MOODLE.

PRIMARY LITERATURE:

NOVELS AND DRAMA:
Flora Nwapa, Efuru (1966) and One is Enough (1981)
Grace Ogot, The Promised Land (1966)
Charity Waciuma, Daughter of Mumbi (1969)
Muthoni Likimani, They Shall Be Chastised (1974)
Buchi Emecheta, Second-Class Citizen (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Joys of Motherhood (1979)
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (1988)
Rebeka Njau, Ripples in the Pool (1978), The Scar (1961)
Yvonne Vera, Butterfly Burning (1998), Without a Name (1996)
Ama Ata Aidoo, Anowa (1970), Our Sister Killjoy (1977), Changes (1991)
Miriam Tlali, Muriel at Metropolitan (1975)
Lauretta Ngcobo, The Cross of Gold (19814), And They Didn’t Die (1990)
Efua Sutherland, The Marriage of Anansewa (1975)

ESSAYS AND THEORY
Catherine Acholonu, Motherism: The Afrocentric Alternative to Feminism (1995)
Ama Ata Aidoo, “To Be an African Woman Writer” (1988), in Olaniyan and Quayson (2007)
Ama Ata Aidoo, “The African Woman Today”, Dissent, Summer 1992, 319-325
Ama Ata Aidoo, “Unwelcome Pals and Decorative Slaves” (1981)
Susan Arndt, “Who is Afraid of Feminism? Critical Perspectives on Feminism in Africa and African Feminism” (2000)
Flora Nwapa, “Women and Creative Writing in Africa” (1992)
Buchi Emecheta, “Feminism with a small f” (1988)
Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, Re-Creating Ourselves: African Women and Critical Transformations (1994)
Lauretta Ngcobo, “African Motherhood: Myth and Reality” (1988), in Olaniyan and Quayson (2007)
Mary E. Modupe Kolawole, Womanism and African Consciousness (1997)
Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi, “Womanism: The Dynamics of the Contemporary Black Female Novel in English”, Signs, 11.1 (1985), 63-80.
Obioma Nnaemeka, “Nego‐Feminism: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa’s Way,” Signs 29.2 (2004), 357-385
Yvonne Vera, “Writing Near the Bone” (1997), in Olaniyan and Quayson (2007)

SECONDARY LITERATURE:
Susan Andrade, The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminism, 1958-1988 (2011)
Susan Andrade, “Rewriting History, Motherhood, and Rebellion: Naming an African Women's Literary Tradition” (1990)
Susan Arndt, The Dynamics of African Feminism: Defining and Classifying African-Feminist Literatures (2002)
Joyce Chadya, “Mother Politics: Anti-colonial Nationalism and the Woman Question in Africa” (2003)
Elisabeth Bekers, Rising Anthills: African and African-American Writing on Female Genital Excision (2010)
Elleke Boehmer, Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation (2005)
Mary Pauline Eboh, “The Woman Question: African and Western Perspectives” (1998)
Juliana M. Nfah-Abbenyi, Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference (1997)
John McLeod, Chapter 6: “Postcolonialism and Feminism”, Beginning Postcolonialism (2000), 172-203.
Obioma Nnaemeka, ed. The Politics of (M)Othering : Womanhood, Identity and Resistance in African Literature (1997)
Obioma Nnaemeka, ed., Sisterhood, Feminisms and Power: from Africa to the Diaspora (1998)
Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi, Africa Wo/Man Palawa: The Nigerian Novel by Women (1996)
Kirsten Holst Petersen, “First Things First: Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature” (1984)
Kirsten Holst-Petersen and Anna Rutherford, eds., A Double Colonization: Colonial and Post-Colonial Women's Writing (1986)
Florence Stratton, Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender (1994)
Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa, ed. Marie Umeh (1998)
Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta, ed. Marie Umeh (1996
Emerging Perspectives on Yvonne Vera, ed. Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo and Helen Cousins (2012)
Emerging Perspectives on Tsitsi Dangarembga, ed. Ann Elizabeth Willey (2002)
Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo, ed. Ada Azodo (1999)
Sign and Taboo: Perspectives on the Poetic Fiction of Yvonne Vera, ed. Robert Muponde and Mandi Taruvinga (2002)