Contemporary African Lit & Pol | Florence Stratton | Taylor & Francis

ABSTRACT

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |20 pages

INTRODUCTION

Exclusionary practices

part |1 pages

Part I ASPECTS OF THE MALE LITERARY TRADITION

chapter 1|17 pages

HOW COULD THINGS FALL APART FOR WHOM THEY WERE NOT TOGETHER?

chapter 2|18 pages

THE MOTHER AFRICA TROPE

part |1 pages

Part II ROOM FOR WOMEN

chapter 3|22 pages

MEN FALL APART

Grace Ogot’s novels and short stories

chapter 4|28 pages

FLORA NWAPA AND THE FEMALE NOVEL OF

chapter 5|25 pages

‘THEIR NEW SISTER’

Buchi Emecheta and the contemporary African literary tradition

chapter 6|24 pages

‘LITERATURE AS A…WEAPON’: The novels of

The novels of Mariama Bâ

part |1 pages

Part III MEN WRITE BACK

chapter 7|13 pages

GENDER ON THE AGENDA: Novels of the 1980s by

Novels of the 1980s by Ngugi and Achebe