| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
02087cam a2200253 a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9780299236649 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
0299236641 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9780299236632 (ebook) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
0299236633 (ebook) |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
809.889 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Hernandez,Pauline |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
African women writing resistance : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
337 pages ; |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Women in Africa and the diaspora |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Engaging with tradition -- Speaking out: young women on sexuality -- Challenging the institution of marriage -- Focusing on survival: women's health issues -- Taking a stand: women as activists against war, environmental degradation, and social conflict -- Writing from a different place: perspectives on exile and diaspora -- Standing at the edge of time: African women's visions of the past, present, and future |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
This work is a transnational anthology that focuses on women's strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal narratives, testimony, interviews, short stories, poetry, performance scripts, folktales, and lyrics. Thematically organized, it presents women's writing on such issues as intertribal and interethnic conflicts, the degradation of the environment, polygamy, domestic abuse, the controversial traditional practice of female genital cutting, Sharia law, intergenerational tensions, and emigration and exile. Contributors include internationally recognized authors and activists such as Wangari Maathai and Nawal El Saadawi, as well as a host of new voices from all over the African continent and from the African diaspora. Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection provides an introduction to contemporary African women's literature and highlights social issues that are particular to Africa but are also of worldwide concern |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
African literature |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Women authors, African. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Women |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Browdy de Hernandez, Jennifer. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Dongala, Pauline. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Jolaosho, Omotayo. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
