Juju fission women's alternative fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the oases in-between /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : P. Lang, c2007.
Series:Society and politics in Africa ; v. 18.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Serendipitous discoveries: the subaltern speaks, African women's writing;
  • Voicing from Zimbabwe to Algeria: the office and science of juju
  • The state of the African union address: a juju ambiance, the tete-a-tete, and the mimetic
  • What the fairy godmother said to the prince: Bessie Head's Maru
  • Rumble from the womb of the prison: Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero
  • The mouth unbound: a thousand and one African days and nights: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our sister killjoy or Reflections from a black-eyed squint and Changes
  • Talking sister, silenced subaltern: Assia Djebar's A sister to Scheherazade
  • "Lunatic writing"; the speaking space between the present and the future: Calixthe Beyala's The sun hath looked upon me
  • Echoes of a recent past: Yvonne Vera's Nehanda.