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well-informed overview of the major themes and trends in the subject… This is a book that will not be ignored in any serious study of African literature.”  \nIsidore Okpewho, SUNY, Binghamton  \n“Nnaemeka’s introduction is a brilliant critique of current scholarship and represents an ingenious use of orality in literary criticism as she sets the framework of the volume by highlighting the complexities and contradictions in defining ‘woman.’”  \nHelen N.Mugambi, California State University  \nOver the last decade, post-colonial studies have become a defining feature in critical thought, but until very recently attention has been focused on areas other than Africa and its wealth of literatures. The arrival of The Politics of (M)Othering signals an important shift of focus. African Studies will certainly be setting the agenda in the future.  \nThis study of African literature examines the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal and is framed by the idea of “mother”—motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, and mothering. Whilst the volume stands as a sustained feminist analysis, it engages feminist theory itself by showing how issues in feminism are, in African literature, recast in different and complex ways. The core arguments in the volume foreground epistemological questions—the construction, containment, and dissemination of knowledge—and the role that gender politics plays in them. Even more significantly, The Politics of (M) Othering insists on the importance of cultural literacy to an effective analysis of cultural productions such as African literary texts. The volume is unique in its extensive territorial claims, in terms of genre (orature, fiction, theater, and autobiography) and geography (from all regions of Africa to the African Diaspora) . This collection brings together critics at the forefront of African literatures—Trinh T.Minh-ha, Françoise Lionnet, Obioma Nnaemeka, Huma Ibrahim, Peter Hitchcock, Charles Sugnet, Uzo Esonwanne, Renée Larrier, Celeste Fraser  \nii  \nDelgado, Ousseynou B.Traoré, Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, and Cynthia Ward.  \nThe Editor: Obioma Nnaemeka is Associate Professor of French, Women’s Studies, and African American Studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis.  \nFeminism for Today General Editor: Teresa Brennan  \nThe Regime of the Brother  \nAfter the Patriarchy Juliet Flower MacCannell  \nHistory After Lacan  \nTeresa Brennan  \nFeminism and the Mastery of Nature  \nVal Plumwood  \nThe Spoils of Freedom  \nRenata Salecl  \nEcopolitics  \nThe Environment in Poststructuralist Thought Verena Andermatt Conley  \nThe Politics of (M)Othering  \nWomanhood, identity, and resistance in African literature  \nEdited by Obioma Nnaemeka  \nLondon and New York  \nFirst published 1997  \nby Routledge  \n11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.“To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go [to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk](to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk).”  \nSimultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge  \n29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001  \n© 1997 selection and editorial matter, Obioma Nnaemeka; individual chapters, the contributors  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data The politics of (m)othering: womanhood, identity, and resistance in African literature/edited by Obioma Nnaemeka.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Opening out) Includes bibliographical","cbCaikmSP0BpTwFP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikmSP0BpTwFP","pdf",1535671,254,"English","# Introduction: Imag(in)ing knowledge, power, and subversion in the margins\n## 1 Mother’s talk\n## 2 Nervous Conditions: Dangarembga’s feminist reinvention ofFanon\n## 3 Why the Snake-Lizard killed his mother: inscribing and decentering “Nneka” in Things Fall Apart\n## 4 The Eye and the Other: the gaze and the look in Egyptian feminist fiction\n## 5 Enlightenment epistemology and “aesthetic cognition”: Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of The Politics of (M)Othering?\",\"answer\":\"It investigates the paradoxical role of (m)other as both central and marginal in African literature, framed through the concept of “mother” and its multiple meanings.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the volume relate feminism to African literary contexts?\",\"answer\":\"While presenting feminist analysis, it also shows how issues in feminism are recast in different and complex ways through African literature and gender politics.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of knowledge questions does the book foreground?\",\"answer\":\"It foregrounds epistemological questions about how knowledge is constructed, contained, and disseminated, and how gender politics shapes these processes.\"}]","The Politics of (M)Othering - Womanhood, identity, and resistance in African literature | PDF",1789986376,391]