Nwanyibu : womanbeing & African literature - Egejuru, Phanuel Akubueze; Katrak, Ketu H.; African Literature Association. Meeting 1991 : Loyola University) (Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 1997)
The paradox of womanbeing and the female principle in Igbo cosmology / Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru -- A reading of Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa / N. Jane Opoku-Agyemang -- Female perspectives in African literature / Emmanuel Obiechina -- Female choices, the militant option in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra and Alice Walker's Meridian / Pauline Ada Uwakweh -- Beyond femaleness, Beryl Markham, Africa's adopted daughter in West with the wind / Mary A. McCay -- The dynamics of power in Mudimbe's Before the birth of the moon / Janice Spleth -- The battlefield of politics and selfhood in Bessie Head's A question of power / Natasha Vaubel -- Black women writers, English fiction in a new South Africa / Elizabeth Taylor -- Zoe Wicomb's You can't get lost in Cape Town, "A new clean Voice" / Carol Sicherman -- From La Noire de... to Milk and Honey, Portraits of the alienated African woman / Janis L. Pallister -- Sow Fall, Sembene, Achebe and Senghor, literary representations of political realities / Hal Wylie -- Anti-colonialist and womanist discourse in the works of Jamaica Kincaid and Simone Schwwarz-Bart / Gerise Herndon.
"17th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association held at Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana, from March 20 to 23, 1991"--P. [1].
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: African literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses; African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Women and literature -- Africa -- Congresses; Women in literature -- Congresses; Womanism in literature -- Congresses