Privately Empowered : Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction /

Privately Empowered : Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction /

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Privately Empowered responds to the lack of adequate attention paid to Islam in Africa in comparison to the Middle East and the Arab world. Shirin Edwin points to the embrace between Islam and politics that has limited Islamic feminist discourse to regions where it evolves in tandem with the nation-...

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Main Author: Edwin, Shirin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nigerian fiction (English)
Muslim women in literature.
Literature.
Islam.
Feminism > Religious aspects > Islam.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
Islam > Nigeria.
Musulmanes dans la litterature.
Roman nigerian (anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Nigerian fiction (English) > History and criticism.
Nigeria.
Nigeria > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Conjugating feminisms: African, Islamic as African-Islamic discourse
  • Connecting vocabularies: a grammar of histories, politics, and priorities in African and Islamic feminisms
  • Noetic education and Islamic faith: personal transformation in the stillborn
  • Historical templates and Islamic disposition: personal journeys in the virtuous woman
  • Spiritual legacies and worship: personal spaces in the descendants
  • Frequent functions and references: personal solutions in sacred apples and destiny.

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