“We Don't Publish Women's Literature”

This chapter draws on Judith Butler’s theorization of censorship present in the social regulation of discourse to analyze Ugandan women’s writing since their belated entry into literary publishing in the late 1990s, facilitated by the non-governmental organization FEMRITE. Placing their experiences into a wider Anglophone literary history, it examines the ways in which patriarchal society creates norms of constructing a social and political female subject. The diasporic generation of Ugandan women writers is seen to free itself from this discursive censorship and create narratives that are entirely woman-centred.