Urban Women in Neo-colonial Africa

ISBN-13: 9783838345086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 64 str.

Jill Shaver

Opis

This study explores several western feminist theories that have been applied to African women, and demonstrates how Clenora Hudson-Weemss theory of Africana Womanism has its basis in African culture instead of the more commonly used western one. It also examines Chela Sandovals "Methodology of the Oppressed," in order to address postmodern power structure and methods of resistance. It suggests a combination of Clenora Hudson-Weemss Africana Womanism and Chela Sandovals postmodern "Methodology of the Oppressed," for which it proposes the designation, Postmodern Africana Womanism. With that as a tool, this work explores the following novels: Yvonne Veras Butterfly Burning, Mariama Bâs Scarlet Song, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiongos Devil on the Cross. The aim is to examine the new power dynamics in Africa, and how the failure to recognize, or belated recognition, of them leads the main female characters to tragic ends. Central to the argument is the dissolution of traditional African cultures and the effects of western culture in the African context.

O autorze

Jill Shaver received her B.A. in English from Nebraska Wesleyan University. She later received her M.A. in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She now works in the records and information management field and lives near Washington D.C.