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SUNY Press, 2009. Clean and unmarked in full cloth binding. 346pp. Dust jacket has creasing to front flap, is offered now in a new mylar cover. The profound effects of colonialism and its legacies on African cultures have led postcolonial scholars of recent African literature to characterize contemporary African novels as, first and foremost, responses to colonial domination by the West. In Africa Writes Back to Self, Evan Maina Mwangi argues instead that the novels are primarily engaged in conversation with each other, particularly over emergent gender issues such as the representation of homosexuality and the disenfranchisement of women by male-dominated governments. He covers the work of canonical novelists Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as popular writers such as Grace Ogot, David Maillu, Promise Okekwe, and Rebeka Njau. Mwangi examines the novels' self-reflexive fictional strategies and their potential to refigure the dynamics of gender and…
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Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality Tapa dura - 2009
de Evan M. Mwangi
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- Título Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality
- Autor Evan M. Mwangi
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Páginas 346
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial State University of New York Press
- Fecha de publicación 2009-07
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781438426815 / 143842681X
- Peso 1.4 libras (0.64 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 pulgadas (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Sex in literature, Sex role in literature
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2009005428
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.914
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- Choice, 01/01/2010, Page 0
- Chronicle of Higher Education, 09/04/2009, Page 17
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