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Prolepsis. Twelve telling tales by African women / Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Pt. 1. Reconfiguration : rewriting the script
1. Modernity, gender, and agency in Ama Ata Aidoo's 'Anowa' / Nana Wilson-Tagoe
2. Charting the nation/charting history : the power of language in Assia Djebar's 'Fantasia: an Algerian cavalcade' / Nada Halloway
Pt. 2. Waves of resistance : the casualties of difference
3. Nawal El Saadawi's 'Woman at point zero' within the context of Arab feminist discourse / Amira Nowaira
4. Nadine Gordimer's 'Burger's daughter' : consciousness, identity, and autonomy / Nobantu L. Rasebotsa
5. Dreams of (dis)order : competing visions of colonial Nigeria in Buchi Emecheta's 'The joys of motherhood' / Tuzyline Jita Allan
6. In the pauses of the historian's narrative : Yvonne Vera's 'Butterfly burning' / V.M. (Sisi) Maqagi
Pt. 3. Regeneration : labor pains and tentative steps toward independence
7. Mapping a female mind : Bessie Head's 'A question of power' and the unscrambling of Africa / Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
8. A drama of power : Aminata Sow Fall's 'The beggars' strike' / Chioma Opara
9. Aesthetics, ethics, desire, and necessity in Mariama Bâ's 'So long a letter' / Modupe Olaogun
10. Reading masculinities in a feminist text : Tsitsi Dangarembga's 'Nervous conditions' / Helen Nabasuta Mugambi
11. Sindiwe Magona : writing, remembering, selfhood, and community in 'Living, loving, and lying awake at night' / M.J. Daymond
12. Every choice is a renunciation : cultural landmarks in Ken Bugul's 'Riwan ou le chemin de sable' / Aissata Sidikou
Coda. African women's writing, prospectively / Tuzyline Jita Allan.
Pt. 1. Reconfiguration : rewriting the script
1. Modernity, gender, and agency in Ama Ata Aidoo's 'Anowa' / Nana Wilson-Tagoe
2. Charting the nation/charting history : the power of language in Assia Djebar's 'Fantasia: an Algerian cavalcade' / Nada Halloway
Pt. 2. Waves of resistance : the casualties of difference
3. Nawal El Saadawi's 'Woman at point zero' within the context of Arab feminist discourse / Amira Nowaira
4. Nadine Gordimer's 'Burger's daughter' : consciousness, identity, and autonomy / Nobantu L. Rasebotsa
5. Dreams of (dis)order : competing visions of colonial Nigeria in Buchi Emecheta's 'The joys of motherhood' / Tuzyline Jita Allan
6. In the pauses of the historian's narrative : Yvonne Vera's 'Butterfly burning' / V.M. (Sisi) Maqagi
Pt. 3. Regeneration : labor pains and tentative steps toward independence
7. Mapping a female mind : Bessie Head's 'A question of power' and the unscrambling of Africa / Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
8. A drama of power : Aminata Sow Fall's 'The beggars' strike' / Chioma Opara
9. Aesthetics, ethics, desire, and necessity in Mariama Bâ's 'So long a letter' / Modupe Olaogun
10. Reading masculinities in a feminist text : Tsitsi Dangarembga's 'Nervous conditions' / Helen Nabasuta Mugambi
11. Sindiwe Magona : writing, remembering, selfhood, and community in 'Living, loving, and lying awake at night' / M.J. Daymond
12. Every choice is a renunciation : cultural landmarks in Ken Bugul's 'Riwan ou le chemin de sable' / Aissata Sidikou
Coda. African women's writing, prospectively / Tuzyline Jita Allan.