TY - BOOK AU - Egejuru,Phanuel Akubueze AU - Katrak,Ketu H. ED - African Literature Association. TI - Nwanyibu: womanbeing & African literature SN - 0865436177 AV - PL8010 .N9 U1 - 809/.8896/0082 21 PY - 1997/// CY - Trenton, NJ PB - Africa World Press KW - African literature KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - Congresses KW - 20th century KW - Women and literature KW - Africa KW - Women in literature KW - Womanism in literature N1 - "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; 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 ER -