| Mother Africa, Father Marx Contributor(s): Owen, Hilary (Author) |
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ISBN: 1611482631 ISBN-13: 9781611482638 Publisher: Bucknell University Press OUR PRICE: $108.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | Reference |
| Dewey: 869.099 |
| Physical Information: 274 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is the first work in the English language to discuss the participation of women writers in the narrative construction of Mozambican nationhood over the past half-century. Covering the rise of anti-colonial nationalism in the 1950s, the advent of the Marxist-Leninist Republic in the 1970s, the war that followed independence in the 1980s, and the transition to democracy and the neo-liberal economy in the 1990s, the volume focuses on four representative women writers who belong to distinct but overlapping periods and work in different genres. Dealing with No mia de Sousa's poetry, Lina Magaia's testimonial writings, L lia Mompl 's short fiction, and Paulina Chiziane's novels, the result is a close reading of the ways in which women have narrated and counter-narrated Mozambican nationhood to take account of the gendered power relations that traditionally underpin national community as imagined by men. |
