How Long to Read African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender

How Long Does it Take to Read African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 50 minutes to read African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender by Sadia Zulfiqar

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This work examines the work of a group of African women writers who have emerged over the last forty years. While figures such as Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri and Wole Soyinka are likely to be the chief focus of discussions of African writing, female authors have been at the forefront of fictional interrogations of identity formation and history. In the work of authors such as Mariama Bâ (Senegal), Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria), Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), and Leila Aboulela (Sudan), there is a clear attempt to subvert the tradition of male writing where the female characters are often relegated to the margins of the culture, and confined to the domestic, private sphere. This body of work has already generated a significant number of critical responses, including readings that draw on gender politics and colonialism, but it is still very much a minor literature, and most mainstream western feminism has not sufficiently processed it. The purpose of this book is three-fold. First, it draws together some of the most important and influential African women writers of the post-war period and looks at their work, separately and together, in terms of a series of themes and issues, including marriage, family, polygamy, religion, childhood, and education. Second, it demonstrates how African literature produced by women writers is explicitly and polemically engaged with urgent political issues that have both local and global resonance: the veil, Islamophobia and a distinctively African brand of feminist critique. Third, it revisits Fredric Jameson’s claim that all third-world texts are “national allegories” and considers these novels by African women in relation to Jameson’s claim, arguing that their work has complicated Jameson’s assumptions.

How long is African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender?

African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender by Sadia Zulfiqar is 230 pages long, and a total of 57,500 words.

This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 14 minutes to read African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender aloud.

What Reading Level is African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender?

African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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