Questions of Identity and Community: Women, language and literature within African and AfricanAmerican postcolonial contexts,Used

Questions of Identity and Community: Women, language and literature within African and AfricanAmerican postcolonial contexts,Used

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This book analyzes the various interfaces between language, culture, gender(woman), history and writing in Senegalese writer Mariama Bs Une si longue lettre (So Long A Letter), South African(Botswana) writer Bessie Heads A Question of Power, and Toni Morrisons Pulitzer winning book Beloved. Postcolonial or postslavery contexts denying power and legitimacy to women through the written word frame all three contexts. Ramatoulaye (Bs heroine) breaks the Muslim convention of mirasse to speak out against a patriarchal society which denies women selflegitimacy through language. Bessie Head through her semiautobiographical heroine Elizabeth negotiates apartheid, miscegenation, madness and exile through language to arrive at a certain degree of selfclarification and agency as a community builder and agriculturist. Toni Morrisons haunting classic of revisionist historiography on postReconstruction America, stresses both the scripted and the oral in narrative, allowing the slave woman Sethe to speak in her own voice, and yet allowing the narrative to remain witness to the most intelligent and sophisticated linguistic and textual maneuvers.

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