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About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Wendy Griswold

Introduction: Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa Stephanie Newell

Part I: Theory and Politics

1: Reading Towards a Theorization of African Women's Writing: African Women Writers within Feminist Gynocriticism

2: Masculinity: The Military, Women and Cultural Politics in Nigeria

3: Women's Role in Ghana's Social Development

Part II: Literatures

4: A Life on the Women's Page: Treena Kwenta's Diary

5: Recovering Lost Voices: The Short Stories of Mabel Dove-Danquah

6: Rewriting Popular Myths of Female Subordination: Selected Stories by Theodora Adimora-Ezeigbo and May Ifeoma Nwoye

7: Gender Conflict in Flora Nwapa's Novels

8: Culture and Gender Semantics in Flora Nwapa's Poetry

9: Behind the Veil in Northern Nigeria: The Writing of Zaynab Alkali and Hauwa Ali

10: The Onus of Womanhood: Mariama Bâ and Zaynab Alkali

11: Narrative Technique and the Politics of Gender: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy and No Sweetness Here

Part III: Popular Culture

12: Hausa Women as Oral Storytellers in Northern Nigeria

13: Gender Politics in West African Mask Performance

14: Anatomy of Masculine Power: Three Perspectives on Marriage and Gender in Nigerian Non-fiction

15: Gender Tempered Through Metal: Women in Metal-Casting in Benin City, Nigeria

Index