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Hadija's Story: Diaspora, Gender, and Belonging in the Cameroon Grassfields
Contributor(s): O'Rourke, Harmony (Author)
ISBN: 0253023831     ISBN-13: 9780253023834
Publisher: Indiana University Press
OUR PRICE:   $30.40  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa - West
- Social Science | Islamic Studies
- Social Science | Women's Studies
Dewey: 306.810
LCCN: 2016034703
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6" W x 9" (0.81 lbs) 266 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - West Africa
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Chronological Period - 1950's
- Religious Orientation - Islamic
 
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In 1952, a woman named Hadija was brought to trial in an Islamic courtroom in the Cameroon Grassfields on a charge of bigamy. Quickly, however, the court proceedings turned to the question of whether she had been the wife or the slave-concubine of her deceased husband. In tandem with other court cases of the day, Harmony O'Rourke illuminates a set of contestations in which marriage, slavery, morality, memory, inheritance, status, and identity were at stake for Muslim Hausa migrants, especially women. As she tells Hadija's story, O'Rourke disrupts dominant patriarchal and colonial narratives that have emphasized male activities and projects to assert cultural distinctiveness, and she brings forward a new set of women's issues involving concerns for personal prosperity, the continuation of generations, and Islamic religious expectations in communities separated by long distances.