Writing and speaking from the heart of my mind : selected essays and speeches /

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Autore principale: Mugo, Micere Githae
Natura: Libro
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 2012.
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Sommario:
  • Part I. Autobiographical touches using a Black feminist brush. The role of African intellectuals: reflections of a female scholar, University of Nairobi, 1973-82
  • The south end of a north-south writer's dialogue: two letters from a post-colonial feminist
  • Part II. Orature, literature and creativity through a Black feminist lens. Women and books
  • The woman artist in Africa today: a critical commentary
  • Popular paradigms and conceptions: orature-based community theatre
  • Elitist anti-circumcision discourse as mutilating and anti-feminist
  • Part III. Culture, class, gender, Pan-Africanism and human development
  • Culture in Africa and imperialism
  • Gender, ethnicity, class and culture
  • Re-envisioning Pan-Africanism: what are the roles of gender, youth and the masses?
  • Part IV. Democracy, empowerment and construction of new sites of knowledge. Advocacy for empowering the masses: translating rhetoric into action
  • Meeting point between basic, subsidiary and people's rights: lessons from African orature
  • Transcending colonial and neo-colonial pathological hangovers to unleash creativity
  • Burying the Kasuku syndrome: constructing inventive sites of knowledge.