1998, ISBN: 392751053X

[EAN: 9783927510531], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Bayreuth University], ADIMORA EZEIGBO AFRICAN LITERATURE WOMEN AUTHORS BECOMES BEHAVIOR CALLED CHARACTERISTIC CHARACTERS CHILD CHUKWUM… Mehr…

[EAN: 9783927510531], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Bayreuth University], ADIMORA EZEIGBO AFRICAN LITERATURE WOMEN AUTHORS BECOMES BEHAVIOR CALLED CHARACTERISTIC CHARACTERS CHILD CHUKWUMA CONCEPT CONSIDERED CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT CONTRAST CRITICISM CULTURE DAUGHTER DEATH DESCRIBED DIALOGUE DISCUSSED EFURU ELEMENTS EMECHETA ENGLISH EXAMPLE EXPERIENCES EXPRESSED FACT FATHER FEMINISM FEMINIST FOLKTALES FUNCTION GENDER GENRES GIRL GIVE HUSBAND IBID IBOS IDEA IMPORTANT INDIVIDUAL INFLUENCE INTEGRATED INTERESTS INTERPRETATION INTERTEXTUAL JOYS KING LANGUAGE LITERARY LIVE MARRIAGE MARRY MEANS MOTHER MOTHERHOOD NARRATIVE NARRATOR NATURE NEVER NIGERIAN NORMS NOVELS AND SHORT NWAPA ORAL TRADITION PATRIARCHAL PERFORMANCE PERSON PLOT POLITICAL POSITION POSSIBLE POWER PRICE PROTAGONIST PROVERBS PUBLISHED QUESTION REASON REFERS RELATIONSHIP ROLE SATIRE STORIES SHOWS SITUATION SOCIAL SOCIETY SONGS SPIRIT SYMBOLIZES TELL TERM TEXTS THINGS TRANSLATION UMEASIEGBU WESTERN WIFE WIVES WOMAN WRITING BACK, Paperback, 410pp+4 pages of glossy b&w photos. Torn-out front blank endpaper. Interior with short creases to corners, remains clean, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Good secure binding. Shelfworn covers with numerous creases and rubbing to edges. Spine shows long creases, two small tears in lower corners (appears to have been glued). -- Contents: Introduction: Contemporary African Women's Literature and Oral Literature; 1 Oral Narrative Technique and Writing Back [Models Have Immunity: Critical Debates on Oral and Written Literatures and the Decolonization of (the English) Language; Ideological Opponents in Mind Have No Immunity: Three Levels of the Intertextual Dialogue of Writing Back; Genres of Igbo Oral Literature; Intertextuality and Intertextual Dialogue] 2 Where There Is an Influence, There Is Also a Parallel: Narrative Continuity Between the Ifo and Igbo Women's Literature [Igbo Novels & Short Stories in the Mirror of Two Literary Traditions; "Igbo in English" as Literary Medium of Igbo Women Writers; Igbo-lexification (Forms of the Literary Application; Aesthetics; Contribution to the Igboization & Decolonization of Standard English); "Relexification" as a Way Toward "Igbo-in-English" (Two Manifestations of Relexification; Aesthetic, Igboizing, Decolonizing Potential of Relexification); Igbo Women Writers in the Tradition of Ifo Narrators; Authentic Depiction of the Described World; Intratextual Functions of Oral Narrative Devices (Irony & Satire; Repetitions; Ideophones; Similes, Metaphors, Allegories; Interaction & Narration in Direct Speech; Digressions; Names; Integrated Ilu & Agwugwa & Nri & Ifo; Elements of Oral Narrative Technique as an Aid to Interpretation)] 3 Criticism of the Model: Igbo Women Authors' Writing Back to the Ifo [Individual Creativity in the Context of Set Norms; Gender Specificity of Igbo Oral Narratives; Women Who Refuse to Be Put on a Pedestal Are the "Source of All Evil": Ifo Images of Women; Daughters; Wives (Lack of Respect; Adultery; Polygyny); (Non-) Mothers (Barrenness; Motherhood); Old Women; Images of Women as a Mirror of the Fears and Wishful Thinking of Patriarchal Igbo Society; Writing Back Against the Myth; Forms of the Re-writing of the Ifo About the Daughter Who Chooses Her Husband Autonomously (Success of a Marriage Hangs on a Golden Thread Called Luck: Free Choice of Partners in Flora Nwapa's Novel Efuru; Myth vs Rationality: Buchi Emecheta's Novel the Bride Price; Even Outcasts Find a Home: Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Short Story "Agarachaa Must Come Home"; Modern "Handsome Stranger" as a Prisoner of Tradition: Ifeoma Okoye's Short Story "The Pay-packet"; Daughter, Father and the Christian Church in the Struggle Against an Arranged Marriage: Gracy Osifo's Dizzy Angel); Profanation of the Holy Pedestals of "Motherhood" and "Wifehood" (On the Sorrows of a Mother: B.Emecheta's Novel The Joys of Motherhood; "To Be (or Not to Be) Like Others": F.Nwapa's Novel Idu; Does Childlessness Only Have a Female Face?: I.Okoye's Novel Behind the Clouds; On the Straw Which Broke the Camel's Back: A.Adimora-Ezeigbo's Short Story "Ubaaku"); Criticism of the Mentors. A Concluding Comparison] 4 Literary-Political Dimension of Oral Narrative Technique and Writing Back [Continuity and Decolonization; Writing Back and African Feminism]; Works Cited; Index -- The intertextual dialogue of writing back in the context of African literatures has been the subject of a number of studies. They, however, were exclusively concerned with African literature's relationship to colonialist literatures or the reactions of African women writers to the conceptions of womanhood of their men colleagues. That the writing back of African women writers is also directed at the conceptions of womanhood of African oral literatures has up until now been completely ignored by critics. This is the very first study that discusses this aspect, using the example of Nigerian women writers and Ifo-Igbo folktales., Books<