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Twelve best books by African women : critical readings

ix, 278 pages ; 22 cm Includes bibliographical references and index 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 Gordi…