The Politics Of Mothering: Womanhood, Identity, and Resistance in African Literature (Opening Out)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Series preface......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
NOTES......Page 39
WORKS CITED......Page 40
1 Mother’s talk......Page 43
WORKS CITED......Page 49
NATIONALISM AND FEMINISM: “EQUAL AND DIALOGIC”?......Page 50
COLONIAL PSYCHOLOGY AS “HINGE”......Page 52
THE COLONIAL MALE AS “HISTORICAL ARTEFACT”......Page 53
COLONIZED WOMEN: ACCOMMODATION AND THE SOURCES OF RESISTANCE......Page 55
NOTES......Page 64
WORKS CITED......Page 65
3 Why the Snake-Lizard killed his mother......Page 67
THEORY OF GENDER BALANCE: NNEKA AND CHUKWUKA......Page 68
OKONKWO AND SNAKE-LIZARD: MALE TROPES AS ABSOLUTE STANDARDS......Page 72
METAPHOR AND NUMEROLOGY: THE SYMBOLIC SEVENS AND THREES......Page 73
THE KILLING OF WOMAN: FOR WHOM IS IT GOOD?......Page 76
WOMANBEING: BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS......Page 80
CONCLUSION......Page 83
WORKS CITED......Page 85
4 The Eye and the Other......Page 87
NOTES......Page 97
WORKS CITED......Page 98
“AESTHETIC COGNITION” AS A DIMENSION OF LITERARY CRITICISM......Page 100
GENDER, GENRE, AND AUTHORITY: ‘MIRASSE’ AS NARRATIVE DEVICE......Page 102
ENLIGHTENMENT EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE INVENTION OF POLYGYNY......Page 106
NOTES......Page 113
WORKS CITED......Page 115
6 Calixthe Beyala’s “femme-fillette”......Page 119
NOTES......Page 128
WORKS CITED......Page 130
7 Bound to matter......Page 132
NOTES......Page 145
WORKS CITED......Page 146
8 MotherTongues and childless women......Page 148
NOTES......Page 163
WORKS CITED......Page 164
9 Ontological victimhood......Page 165
NOTES......Page 177
WORKS CITED......Page 178
FEMINISM, SPEECH, AND SILENCE(D)......Page 180
MODERNITY AS SUBVERSION......Page 185
LIVING WITH CONTRADICTIONS: DIFFERENT LIVES, SAME STORY......Page 193
REVENONS A NOS MOUTONS!21......Page 205
NOTES......Page 207
WORKS CITED......Page 208
11 Reconstructing motherhood......Page 210
MOTHER=MOTHER AFRICA IN “MASTER TEXTS”......Page 211
WOMEN WRITING THEMSELVES......Page 213
WOMEN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MOTHERING......Page 215
NOTES......Page 220
WORKS CITED......Page 222
12 Geographies of pain......Page 224
DISFIGURATION AND CASTRATION: JULETANE AND SIDONIE......Page 231
MEDUSA’S SILENCE: EVA......Page 235
FINDING “GOLD AMIDST THE ASH”: LIFE AND DIKELEDI......Page 239
NOTES......Page 243
WORKS CITED......Page 244
Index......Page 247