| African Literature: Gender Discourse, Religious Values, and the African Worldview Contributor(s): Salami-Boukari, Safoura (Author) |
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ISBN: 0979085853 ISBN-13: 9780979085857 Publisher: African Books Collective OUR PRICE: $38.67 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | African - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 809.896 |
| LCCN: 2011941393 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6" W x 9" (0.73 lbs) 270 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How do we resolve the insider/outsider interpreting conundrum? Why do readers from different parts of the world read, interpret, or understand foreign literatures the way they do? What drives peculiar critical reactions, canon formations and such issues which determine the survival of cultural productions or their continued adoption as useful bolsters for a people's self-definition or indeed self-preservation and self-determination? African Literature: Gender Discourse, Religious Values, and the African Worldview offers a series of fresh insights into most of the old "problematics" which used to sustain the interpretations of African literature, especially by women. Students, scholars, and general readers wishing to consider issues of gender in relation to African cultural and socioeconomic systems and what Salami-Boukari interrogates and names as an "African worldview," will find the interdisciplinary discussion of historical analyses, literary criticism and gender discourses a useful method for engaging contemporary African perspectives. |