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Includes works by Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer, Urieta Kazahendike, Labotsibeni, Sindiwe Magona, Winnie Madikizela Mandela, Emma Sandile, Lydia Umkasetemba, Tryn Isaac, Noneko Toney, Kaatje Nieuwveldt, Adele Mabille, Susiwe Bengu, Kambauruma Kazahendike, Eliza Feilden, Minnie Martin, Khami, Adelaide Charles Dube, Louisa Mvemve, Sara van Vijk, Nontsizi Mgqwetho, Oratile Sekgoma, Ntebogang Ratshosa, Florence Thandiswa Jabavu, Lilian Ngoyi,...
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African literatures, says volume editor Oyekan Owomoyela, "testify to the great and continuing impact of the colonizing project on the African universe." African writers must struggle to define for themselves and others just what "Africa" is and who they are in a continent constructed as a geographic and cultural entity largely by Europeans. This study reflects the legacy of colonialism by devoting nine of its thirteen chapters to literature in "Europhone"...
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Binding Cultures investigates the cultural bonds between African and African-American women writers such as Nigerian Flora Nwapa and Ghanaians Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo, writers who focus on the role of women in passing on cultural values to future generations, and African-American writers Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Paule Marshall, who self-consciously evoke African culture to help create a more integrated African-American community....
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