143121 VO 20th century African Women's Writing and Feminism (2022W)

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PRIMARY LITERATURE:
Flora Nwapa, Efuru (1966)
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)
Yvonne Vera, Butterfly Burning (1998), Without a Name (1996)
Ama Ata Aidoo, 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)
Rebeka Njau, The Scar (1961), Ripples in the Pool (1978)
Efua Sutherland, The Marriage of Anansewa (1975)
Ama Ata Aidoo, Anowa (1970)

ESSAYS AND THEORY
Catherine Acholonu, Motherism: The Afrocentric Alternative to Feminism (1995)
Ama Ata Aidoo, “To Be an African Woman Writer” (1988)
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) in Tejumola Olaniyan and Ato Quayson, eds., African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory (2007)
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)
Mary 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)

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.” Research in African Literatures , Spring, 1990 , Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 91-110.
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.” Journal of Women’s History 15.3 (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”, in African Philosophy: An Anthology, ed. Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998, 333-337
Anke Graneß, Martina Kopf, Magdalena Kraus, eds., Feministische Theorie aus Afrika, Asien und Latinamerika (2019)
Juliana M. Nfah-Abbenyi, Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference (1997)
Gwendolyn Mikell, ed., African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa (1997)
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” Kunapipi 6.3 (1984)
K. Holst-Petersen and A. Rutherford, eds., A Double Colonization: Colonial and Post-Colonial Women's Writing (1986)
Dobrota Pucherova, Feminism and Modernity in Anglophone African Women’s Writing: A 21st Century Global Context (2022)
Florence Stratton, Contemporary African Literature and the Politics of Gender (1994)